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February 11
RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop: Episodes 1-4 Season 1, Episode 1
An immersive 4+ hour journey into the making of the seminal sci-movie RoboCop (1987)
February 10
Gilmore Girls: Let the Games Begin Season 3, Episode 8
Rory and Jess are together now, supposedly, but can't get a moment alone. Richard finagles Rory an admissions interview at Yale, and everyone turns on him for it. Luke attempts to lay down some ground-rules. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They? Season 3, Episode 7
There's drama galore afoot at the charity dance marathon competition: See Jackson getting wildly pissed at Lorelai for listening when Sookie came to her needing advice! Marvel at Dave Rygalski engineering a positive first-meeting with Mrs. Kim! And get ready to throw an awkward public scene when Jess and Lane sit on the bleachers as spectators! [more inside]
Movie: Echo
Rúnar Rúnarsson is one of my favorite Icelandic filmmakers, and his 2019 "Echo" is one of my all-time beloved cinematic poems. It's a collection of "unrelated" 56 very short episodes, all describing the feeling of "Iceland during the Christmas holidays". It's a newer, 2nd level Roy Andersson. I highly recommend it. [more inside]
Movie: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the U.S. from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising, and her New York agent, "the Countess," sends her to his ranch in California to shoot a commercial, set against the background of mating whooping cranes. There, she befriends Bonanza Jellybean, one of the cowgirls at the beauty ranch. [more inside]
Book: The Ghost Brigades
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms.
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
Movie: Nosferatu
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Directed by David Lee Fisher, starring Doug Jones, Sarah Carter and Emrhys Cooper. [more inside]
February 9
Special Event: Super Bowl LIX
Patrick Mahomes' Chiefs, architecting what could be the NFL's next great dynasty, face an Eagles team that's spent two years building back to Super Bowl contention after falling short against Kansas City in 2023 (apologies to any Last Man stragglers). Now Jalen Hurts (roll tide) leads Philadelphia's redemption tour against a rival that's grown from upstart to powerhouse. The NFL's second Vegas Super Bowl streams free on Tubi this Sunday at 6:30 PM ET (though not necessarily with the same commercials). This year's halftime show: Kendrick Lamar.
Grand Designs: Keighley Season 25, Episode 4
Holistic therapist Kara and electrician Jonny are building a striking stone and zinc four bedroom family home in the rolling hills of West Yorkshire. The need to build has been motivated by Kara's recent paralysis, caused by a rare autoimmune condition. Their ambition for the house is enormous, as Kara wants to create a home that is not only beautiful but will help her regain some independence in her life.
The Madness: Full Series Season 1 (Full Season)
Media pundit Muncie Daniels must fight for his innocence and his life after he stumbles upon a murder deep in the Poconos. Streaming on Netflix.
Movie: Letter from an Unknown Woman
“By the time you read this letter, I may be dead…. If this reaches you, you will know how I became yours when you didn’t know who I was or even that I existed.” [more inside]
Movie: Queendom
[Trailer] "In defiance of Russia's anti-LGTBQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin's radical public performances blend artistry and activism in this SXSW documentary." --IMDb [more inside]
February 8
AEW Collision: February 8, 2025 Season 2, Episode 32
Houston gets the last Collision before Grand Slam Australia, so they get to see trios squared: three trios in a three-way match. Thunder Rosa fights the returning Penelope Ford, Mark Briscoe wants to humble Kyle Fletcher, Bryan Keith wants to collect a bounty on a returning Bandido, and Harley Cameron provides the halftime entertainment. [more inside]
Movie: Career Opportunities
Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction. Josie is the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy businessman who dreams of leaving town. They find they have a lot in common. [more inside]
February 7
Movie: Animal Farm
Animal Farm is a 1954 animated drama film directed and produced by John Halas and Joy Batchelor and funded in part by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who also made changes to the original script. Based on the 1945 novella Animal Farm by George Orwell, the film features narration by Gordon Heath, with the voices of all animals provided by Maurice Denham.
The rights for a film adaptation were purchased from Orwell's widow Sonia after she was approached by agents working for the Office of Policy Coordination, a branch of the CIA that dealt with the use of culture to combat communism.
Despite being a box office flop, taking fifteen years to generate a profit, the film quickly became a staple in classrooms. - Wikipedia [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: Take the Deviled Eggs Season 3, Episode 6
Rory and Lorelai attend Sherry's baby shower. Jess gets a car, which angers basically everyone. The Town Loner stages a protest. [more inside]
Movie: Carnival of Sinners
"A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due." [more inside]
Movie: Mind Game
"Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place." [more inside]
Paradise: Agent Billy Pace Season 1, Episode 4
The citizens of Paradise celebrate at the annual carnival; Xavier and Billy delve deeper into their investigation.
Movie: Murphy's Romance
Emma moves to a ranch with her son after a divorce and befriends the older Murphy, but things turn complicated when her ex shows up. [more inside]
The Pitt: 12:00 PM Season 1, Episode 6
While Robby handles an ultimatum from the hospital, Mel, Javadi, and Collins each handle unique mother-daughter dynamics. [more inside]
Movie: The Year of Living Dangerously
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer. [more inside]
Movie: White God
[TRAILER] 13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to save her dog. Failing in his desperate efforts to find his beloved owner, Hagen joins a canine revolt leading a revolution against their human abusers. [more inside]
February 6
Severance: Woe's Hollow Season 2, Episode 4
The team participates in a group activity.
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS
MST Club presents! An alien brain sets up shop in the body of an Earth scientist, and it's only vulnerable at those times when it temporarily leave it to absorb oxygen. Another brain, a good one, comes to apprehend el cerebro diablo, although for some reason it's stuck in the body of a dog. Contains the phrase "fissure of Rolando." Riff first released November 2020.
Gilmore Girls: Eight O'Clock at the Oasis Season 3, Episode 5
Lorelai splits a glass of wine with a stranger. Lorelai agrees to water a new neighbor's grass. Lorelai waffles about going to a Bowie concert. [more inside]
February 5
Stargate SG-1: Thor's Chariot Rewatch Season 2, Episode 6
O'Neill and his team return to Cimmeria after learning that the Goa'Uld have occupied the planet. SG-1 feels responsible for having destroyed the world's most important defence system on an earlier visit. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: February 5, 2025 Season 6, Episode 19
While Swerve Strickland and Ricochet continue the secret Lucha Underground Reunion Tour, the returning "Timeless" Toni Storm fights a Queen. Will Ospreay faces a mystery member of the Don Callis Family and the newly re-introduced Hounds of Hell face two others. Also more promos announced ahead of time than usual, which is an emerging trend for AEW programming. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: One's Got Class and the Other One Dyes Season 3, Episode 4
Lane tries on rebellion to see how it fits. Lorelai speaks to a classroom about business. Rory takes out her anger on the service industry. [more inside]
Elsbeth: Elsbeth Season 2 Season 2 (Full Season)
Elsbeth continues to help the NYPD follow procedures and solve murders one bag, scarf, and awesome guest star at a time. [more inside]
Movie: Big Ass Spider!
A giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages the city of Los Angeles. When a massive military strike fails, it is up to a team of scientists and one clever exterminator to kill the creature before the city is destroyed. [more inside]
Movie: Clean and Sober
A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehabilitation to escape trouble with the law and realizes that it's exactly what he needs. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: Application Anxiety Season 3, Episode 3
Rory and Lorelai learn that Harvard is actually pretty competitive. Taylor approaches Luke about opening up a new Soda Shoppe in town. Lane gets in contact with a band. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: Haunted Leg Season 3, Episode 2
Emily tries her hand at matchmaking. Rory sees how the student government sausage is made. Kirk asks Lorelai on a date. [more inside]
Movie: I'm Still Here
A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.
Movie: Emilia Perez
Emilia Perez follows four women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness.
Movie: Nickel Boys
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead (previously), Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
February 4
Movie: Smile
A social comedy about a beauty pageant for young Californian women, held annually in Santa Rosa, and how it affects the locals and participants. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Season 3, Episode 1
Rory returns from Washington to find that Jess has a new girlfriend. Lorelai tells her parents that things didn't work out with Christopher. A new customer walks into Luke's Diner. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: I Can't Get Started Season 2, Episode 22
It's Sookie & Jackson's wedding! Emily and Richard are coming, Christopher's coming, and even Jess kinda/sorta crashes it. Paris runs for student council but needs some help in the likability department. [more inside]
Movie: Night Killer
A murderous maniac who wears a monstrous rubber mask sews death in a theater, killing two women with seemingly floppy but somehow razor-sharp claws. A young woman hears about the crime on TV, not knowing the murderer is coming for her next. Night Killer was promoted in some territories as if it were the third Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, this despite it sharing no content, cast, continuity or connection of any kind with that franchise. Why? [Italian scumbag movie producer voice]: Because fuck you, that's why. [more inside]
Movie: The House Is Black
Influential, controversial poet Forugh Farrokhzad was called The 'Persian Sylvia Plath’. She was a modernist feminist and iconoclast who broke barriers of sex and society and who died in 1967 at the age of 32. [more inside]
Movie: The Blue Sky Maiden (Also called 'We'll meet again')
After seeing 'Perfect days' the other day, I was reminded of this. Japanese New Wave director Yasuzō Masumura is considered by some to be "the most important filmmaker in the history of postwar Japanese cinema", yet I never heard of him before. How can that be? [more inside]
Paradise: The Architect of Social Well-Being Season 1, Episode 3
Isolated, Xavier seeks answers on his own and cautiously turns to Dr. Gabriela Torabi. Meanwhile, Billy and Jane feel the pressure from Robinson's investigation.
February 3
Gilmore Girls: Lorelai's Graduation Day Season 2, Episode 21
Lorelai graduates from Community College. Emily and Richard show up for the ceremony. Rory doesn't. [more inside]
Book: 2025: Mandate for Leadership
The most influential book of 2025 is the Heritage Foundation's 2025: Mandate for Leadership. [more inside]
Paradise: Sinatra Season 1, Episode 2
Agent Xavier Collins is interrogated. Samantha Redmond (codenamed Sinatra) begins to reassure the community as she reflects on how she got to Paradise. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: Help Wanted Season 2, Episode 20
With Richard's old secretary not following him to his new business, Lorelai steps in to help her father at work. Dean returns home. Luke goes fishin'. Lane discovers a new store in town. [more inside]
Paradise: Wildcat is Down Season 1, Episode 1
It's just another day in Paradise until Xavier Collins discovers one of the world's most powerful individuals has been viciously murdered. Xavier analyzes the crime scene while recalling his complex relationship with the victim.
Movie: The Damned
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: Teach Me Tonight Season 2, Episode 19
Luke asks Rory to tutor Jess, leading to Jess and Rory getting in a car accident, leading to Luke and Lorelai having their biggest fight yet. Kirk scores a screening for his short film. [more inside]
Book: Old Man's War
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
Movie: Afternoons of Solitude
Explores the spiritual pain of bullfighting, the tormented torero in a ring, one of the most excessive and graphic examples of the origin of Southern European civilization [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: Back in the Saddle Again Season 2, Episode 18
Richard helps out with Rory's Business Fair project. Lorelai has to intervene about Dean's clinginess. Michel receives a visit from his mother. [more inside]
King of the Hill: To Sirloin with Love Season 13, Episode 24
Hank is thankful to have something in common with Bobby after his knowledge of beef earns him a spot on a college team bound for the state championships.
King of the Hill: Strangeness on a Train Season 12, Episode 19
When Peggy's birthday celebrations promise to disappoint her once again, she decides to plan her own party aboard a train that features a murder-mystery play.
Movie: Companion
Iris (Sophie Thatcher) is hopelessly devoted to her boyfriend Josh (Jack Quaid) but worries his friend Kat (Megan Suri) doesn't like her. A trip to Kat's Russian boyfriend's ritzy remote vacation home seems the perfect opportunity to win over Kat and Josh's other friends (Harvey Guillén, Lukas Gage). Instead, Iris finds herself covered in blood and running for her life. [more inside]
Movie: Out of the Blue
[TRAILER] Dennis Hopper directed and stars in Out of the Blue -- the spiritual sequel to his own "Easy Rider", chronicling the collapse of sixties idealism into the nihilistic haze of the 1980s. Don Barnes (Hopper) is a truck driver in prison for drunkenly smashing his rig into a school bus. Linda Manz (Days of Heaven) plays CeBe, his daughter, a young teen rebel and outsider obsessed with Elvis and the Sex Pistols. Her mother Kathy, (Sharon Farrell) waitresses, shoots up drugs and takes refuge in the arms of other men, including her husband's best friend, Charlie (Don Gordon). CeBe runs away to Vancouver's punk scene and ends up on juvenile probation under the care of well-meaning psychiatrist Dr. Brean (Raymond Burr). After Don's release, the family struggles to re-connect and start over before the revelation of dark secrets leads to a harrowing conclusion. [more inside]
Movie: Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
[TRAILER] Debonair supernatural expert Captain Kronos (Horst Janson) and his hunchbacked assistant, Grost (John Cater), meet their match when they encounter a village where vampires have been stealing the vitality of young women, leaving them elderly and decrepit. Armed with his sword and formidable deductive reasoning, Kronos begins to solve the macabre mystery, with evidence pointing to the aristocratic Lady Durward (Wanda Ventham) and her family as prime suspects. This was intended as the first in a series for Hammer Films. [more inside]
February 2
Movie: Diary of a Mad Housewife
Tina Balser (Carrie Snodgress) finds herself increasingly frustrated with her inconsiderate social climbing lawyer husband (Richard Benjamin) and rotten kids, seeks solace in the arms of inconsiderate asshole lover (Frank Langella), to little avail in this dark drama/comedy. [more inside]