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December 13
Person of Interest: Prisoner's Dilemma Season 2, Episode 12
While Carter engages in mental warfare with the FBI to help Reese evade Agent Donnelly's narrowing focus, Reese crosses paths with foes both old and new. [more inside]
December 12
Silo: Descent Show Only Season 2, Episode 5
Sims finds himself with a new position. Juliette learns Solo isn't being honest. Bernard and Lukas make an important discovery.
Movie: Poltergeist II: The Other Side
[TRAILER] The Freelings (JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson) have escaped their haunted house, which is now being studied by paranormal investigators, including shaman Taylor (Will Sampson). When Taylor realizes that the Beast, masquerading as the Rev. Kane (Julian Beck), knows where young Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) now lives, he goes to warn the family that their daughter is in danger again. To protect Carol, her family must plot to take down the Beast. [more inside]
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Fissure Quest Season 5, Episode 9
AKA The Trouble With Harrys [more inside]
Creature Commandos: Cheers to the Tin Man Season 1, Episode 3
All G. I. Robot wants is to hang out with his boys. And kill nazis.
Movie: The Walking Dead
[TRAILER] Down-on-his-luck John Ellman (Boris Karloff) is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor (Edmund Gwenn, aka Santa in Miracle on 34th Street) uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is not as expected. [more inside]
Movie: Red One
[TRAILER] After Santa Claus -- Code Name: RED ONE -- is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world's most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) in a mission to save Christmas. [more inside]
Movie: The Prisoner of Shark Island
[TRAILER] John Ford's 1936 drama presents a highly whitewashed and fictionalized version of the life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter), who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his unanimous conviction for being one of Booth's accomplices. Co-stars Gloria Stuart ("Old Rose" from Titanic as Mudd's wife, Peggy.) [more inside]
December 11
Movie: The Curse of the Cat People
[TRAILER] In this ostensible sequel to "Cat People," Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) is married to the lovely Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). The couple has a daughter, Amy (Ann Carter), a withdrawn young girl with a vivid imagination who soon begins talking to visions of her father's deceased former wife, the cursed Irena (Simone Simon). When Amy unintentionally incurs the wrath of a mentally unstable woman (Elizabeth Russell), the girl's relationship with Irena's apparition comes into play. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: December 11, 2024: Winter Is Coming Season 6, Episode 11
AEW is keeping the WIC episode name for the fifth year in a row! Tonight the Continental Classic continues with Ricochet vs. Brody King (!) and Will Ospreay taking on Claudio Castagnoli (!!) Mariah May will have to defend the AEW Women’s World Championship against her former friend Mina Shirakawa, plus pale friend Kyle O'Reilly vs. spray-tan friend Adam Cole. [more inside]
Movie: He Ran All the Way
[TRAILER] Nick (John Garfield) and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot, and Nick shoots a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs (Shelley Winters). They go back to her apartment, and he forces her family to hide him from the police. [more inside]
Person of Interest: 2Πr Season 2, Episode 11
Finch goes undercover as a high school substitute teacher to protect a teen genius POI as Carter undertakes a dangerous mission to stop the FBI from determining that an imprisoned Reese is the "Man In a Suit." [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Within the Serpent's Grasp Rewatch Season 1, Episode 21
A threat looms over the human race, so O'Neil and his friends decide to investigate. They pass through the Stargate which is threatened with closure and fearfully discover that the Goa'ulls are about to launch their hunters on the land. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Politics Rewatch Season 1, Episode 20
The US government sends a senator to Stargate base to notify SG-1 of the end of the Stargate programme. Now is not the time to condemn the Stargate as the Goa'uld are indeed preparing to destroy Earth. [more inside]
Movie: Nutcrackers
[TRAILKER] Just as Mike (Ben Stiller) is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he's pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohio in order to help his recently orphaned nephews find a new home. Will this selfish city slicker learn the true value of family and Christmas? [more inside]
December 10
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: Very Interesting, As An Astrogration Problem Season 1, Episode 3
A mysterious stranger offers to help our heroes.
Movie: Dear Santa
[Trailer] 6th grader Liam writes to Santa asking him to prove that he's real. But Liam is dyslexic and accidentally sends his letter to Satan (Jack Black) instead. Get it? Because he's dyslexic. So Satan gives him three wishes or some bullshit.
Movie: The Woman in Green
[TRAILER] Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot. [more inside]
Movie: Mad Love
[TRAILER] A disturbed surgeon (Peter Lorre) becomes obsessed with actress Yvonne (Frances Drake). When the woman's pianist husband (Colin Clive) has his hands horribly damaged in an accident, Dr. Gogol replaces them with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives... and kill. [more inside]
Person of Interest: C.O.D. Season 2, Episode 9
Finch and Reese's surveillance skills are pushed to the limit when a New York City cab driver's number comes up and any one of his passengers could be involved in the impending crime. [more inside]
December 9
Only Connect: Hopsters v Al Frescans Season 20, Episode 18
It's the knockout stage, so one of the teams will be going home, but not before grappling with clues such as 1000 is ALL, 100 is CV, 10 is J. What's next in the sequence?
Interior Chinatown: Willis. Wilis Wu. Show Only Season 1, Episode 10
Willis tries to write his own ending. [more inside]
Interior Chinatown: Bad Guy Show Only Season 1, Episode 9
Lana gets an unexpected message. Willis gets a promotion. [more inside]
Somebody Somewhere: Full Season Season 3 (Full Season)
Sam’s friends seem to be finding their way in life, with new relationships, or in the case of Sam’s sister, newly single. But where does that leave Sam?
Person of Interest: Shadow Box Season 2, Episode 10
While the FBI refocuses their efforts to catch "The Man in the Suit," Reese's latest POI becomes a personal quest after he learns that she's the sister of a soldier who was killed in action. [more inside]
Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The apocalypse will be televised!
You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what. [more inside]
December 8
Movie: Acasa, My Home
A raw, unexpected Romanian gem! A quiet documentary (with no music score!) about a family of feral Romas (9 kids and their stubborn parents) who live isolated from society, in a nature reserve just outside Bucharest. Filthy, proud, tight-knit and independent, they are eventually chased out of their shack and subsistence living, and struggle with their integration into the system. [more inside]
Special Event: Special Event: Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Final Concert December 8th
Grainy live stream here. show starts 740 ish PST (keep checking in case she comes on early tonight) [more inside]
Special Event: Cheesy Holiday Made-For-TV-Movies Thread
I'm going to start a catchall thread if anyone wants to discuss Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, or other holiday movies they've seen this year, since I'm being slow to watch them all. [more inside]
Abbott Elementary: E7: Winter Show and E8: Winter Break Season 4, Episode 7
Abbott Elementary host their first-ever holiday show. Jacob's brother pays him a visit. Melissa hosts a Schemmenti family dinner.
AEW Collision: December 7, 2024 (& Rampage, Dec. 6) Season 2, Episode 24
In the men’s Continental Classic, Mark Briscoe needs a win to stay competitive, Komander is subbed for an injured Juice Robinson, and Kyle Fletcher faces Kazuchika Okada once again. On the women’s side, Willow Nightingale faces Serena Deeb, and Mina Shirakawa battles Emi Sakura. [more inside]
Movie: A Creature Was Stirring
A nurse taking care of her daughter's mysterious affliction struggles to hide her secrets when uninvited strangers take shelter in her house during a lethal blizzard. [more inside]
December 7
Person of Interest: Til Death Season 2, Episode 8
The team is spread thin when a husband and wife's numbers both come up. [more inside]
Interior Chinatown: Ad Guy Season 1, Episode 8
Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. [more inside]
Silo: The Harmonium Show Only Season 2, Episode 4
Juliette sets out on a dangerous quest to retrieve a suit so she can return home and save her silo. Mechanical plans a meeting with Judge Meadows. [more inside]
The Sticky: Chapters 1-6 First Watch Season 1 (Specials)
A (very) fictionalized retelling of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, starring Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr. Ruth Landry is a tough middle-aged maple syrup farmer, who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves. She teams up with a hot-tempered Bostonian mobster, and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard to carry out a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec's maple syrup surplus. [more inside]
The Agency: Hawk from a Handsaw Season 1, Episode 3
Henry questions Martian's thinking. Bosko is briefed on a top-secret operation. Poppy makes a startling discovery. Martian confronts Sami about why she's in London and finds a needle in a haystack before a heated session with Dr. Blake.
Movie: The Enchanted
[TRAILER] Royce returns home to the backwoods of Florida to look after a house that was once his late father’s. At first welcomed back by longtime family friend Booker, Royce begins to falls for a mysterious woman from a strange family living in the nearby woods. [more inside]
December 6
Podcast: Old Gods of Appalachia: Episode 71: Season Five Prologue
Old Gods of Appalachia returns with an enticing prologue for its newest season set during the Satanic panic era of the 1970s. [more inside]
Movie: Embrace of the Serpent
This was the first Colombian film ever to receive an Oscar nomination (in 2015). It tells of an indigenous shaman, the last of his tribe, who accompanies two travelers deep into the Amazonian jungle, in search of a magical plant. In crisp B&W, except of a 2001-style "Stargate" coda in astonishing colors. [more inside]
December 5
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Upper Decks Season 5, Episode 8
The Lower Deckers have a pumpkin carving party. Meanwhile, the bridge crew get their time to shine! Not necessarily saying that they do, they just get their time. [more inside]
Special Event: Rifftrax: THE FANTASTIC ARGOMAN
MST Club presents! Argoman is a superhero with an unfortunate weakness: whenever he has sex, he loses his powers for six hours. Surely that wouldn't be so bad, right? Apparently though he's hornier than a moose, and the self-titled Queen Of The World has figured out his Achilles Prick, and plans to take advantage of his post-coital fatigue to steal a valuable gem... and then use it somehow to cause terrible inflation? The money kind that is. Rifftrax released this riff quite recently, on November 22, 2024.
Movie: Terminal Island
[TRAILER] After being convicted of a crime she didn’t commit, a woman is sentenced to life on the aptly named Terminal Island, an anarchic prison where murderous men make the rules and women fight back… [more inside]
Creature Commandos: The Tourmaline Necklace Season 1, Episode 2
While Ilana continues her pursuit of Flag, The Bride shows Nina the place where she was created. [more inside]
Person of Interest: Critical Season 2, Episode 7
The Machine gives Finch and Reese the number of a brilliant surgeon, but they soon discover that a resourceful third party has raised the stakes for this POI, forcing them to turn to an unlikely source for help. [more inside]
Person of Interest: The High Road Season 2, Episode 6
Reese and Zoe pretend to be a married couples living in the suburbs to get close to this week's POI. [more inside]
Creature Commandos: The Collywobbles Season 1, Episode 1
Amanda Waller tasks General Rick Flag Sr. with leading a team of non-human combatants, codenamed “Task Force M”, to enter Pokolistan and help their heiress, Princess Ilana Rostovic, and stop the Amazonian supervillain Circe. [more inside]
Movie: Blind Chance
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life. Written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, the Three Colors trilogy guy. (1987 (1981) Poland 114m.) [more inside]
Movie: The Girl on the Broomstick
Saxana, a young incompetent witch facing 300 years detention, plans to escape to the human world for 48 hours and causes mayhem with her magic powers and questionable judgment. (1972 Czechoslovakia 76 minutes.) [more inside]
Movie: The Teachers' Lounge
Carla, an enthusiastic new teacher, decides to do something about the petty thefts plaguing the teacher's lounge. It doesn't go great tbh. (Germany, 98min, IMDB 7.4 24k, currently on Netflix.) [more inside]
December 4
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: December 4, 2024 Season 6, Episode 10
Yours truly forgot completely about the Dynamite before Thanksgiving last week (apologies!), but this week's episode will be a lesson in consequences as Max Caster pays the bill for mouthing off to Swerve Strickland. The Continental Classic Tournament continues, Anna Jay wants to prove that a few losses haven't shaken her, and Jay White has a first-time ever against PAC. [more inside]
Movie: Hot Frosty
Widow Kathy (Lacey Chabert) magically brings a snowman, Jack (Dustin Milligan), to life. His innocence helps her heal and find love again. They bond before the holidays, but he's doomed to melt. Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti and written by Russell Hainline.
Streaming on Netflix.
Person of Interest: Bury the Lede Season 2, Episode 5
Reese must protect an investigative journalist through surreptitious means to avoid becoming part of her story. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: There but for the Grace of God Rewatch Season 1, Episode 19
SG-1 discovers a world made uninhabitable by the Goa'uld. O'Neill asks his team to move as quickly as possible towards the Stargate but Daniel Jackson touches a strange mirror and finds himself projected into a parallel reality. [more inside]
Person of Interest: Triggerman Season 2, Episode 4
When The Machine gives them the number of a mob enforcer whose life becomes endangered, Reese and Finch must decide whether to intervene or allow karma to balance the scales of justice. [more inside]
December 3
Person of Interest: Masquerade Season 2, Episode 3
With Finch back in the Library, Reese returns to field work, only to face a POI who steadfastly eludes his attempts to protect her. [more inside]
Movie: Wagon Master
[TRAILER] Two horse traders (Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.) are hired by a Mormon elder (Ward Bond) to guide his group's wagon train to the San Juan Valley. Along the way, they encounter rugged terrain, a stranded medicine show, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges. [more inside]
Movie: Never Let Me Go
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking. [more inside]
Movie: The Narrow Margin
[TRAILER] Tense story of a tough cop attempting to transport the widow of a gangster to the trial in which she'll testify. They undertake a rail journey from Chicago to Los Angeles with their lives constantly under threat from hit men on the train, who will stop at nothing to prevent her from testifying. [more inside]
December 2
Only Connect: Harmonics v Cat Cows Season 20, Episode 17
The knockout stage has arrived, and it's a rematch. Yes, thanks to the series structure, these teams have played each other before. They're facing such questions as Arkana, Astana, Nur-Sultan, what comes fourth in the sequence.
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