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August 20
Movie: Fresh Kill
[TRAILER] Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food. [more inside]
Movie: High Art
[TRAILER] A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other. [more inside]
Movie: Late Bloomers
[TRAILER] High School basketball coach, Dinah Groshardt, falls for the school secretary, Carly Lumpkin, and upsets the entire school in the process. [more inside]
Movie: Go Fish
[TRAILER] Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging? [more inside]
Movie: The Watermelon Woman
[TRAILER] Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period. [more inside]
Movie: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
[TRAILER] Randy Dean (Laurel Holloman), a boyish lesbian who works at a gas station, has trouble performing in high school and is treated badly by bigoted locals because of her sexual identity. She begins an unlikely friendship with one of her school's popular girls, the affluent Evie (Nicole Parker). But when their friendship blossoms into a romance, the two find themselves struggling with the intricacies and pitfalls of discovering love, and having to reveal their relationship to friends and family. [more inside]
Painkiller: Full Series Season 1 (Full Season)
A Netflix six-part drama miniseries from Netflix about Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, and the opioid epidemic. Released 10 August 2023. [more inside]
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko ( young geiko—the Kyoto-specific term for geisha) , but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same roof. [more inside]
Book: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. [more inside]
August 19
Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: The Final!
736 players, 163 goals, 63 games, 32 teams, 2 host countries, and it'll all come down to 1 champion. [more inside]
Foundation: Why the Gods Made Wine Books Included Season 2, Episode 6
Day and Queen Sareth make an announcement. Tellem sows seeds of distrust between Gaal and Hari. Hober Mallow reaches his destination.
AEW Collision: August 19 Season 1, Episode 10
Papa Tony is keeping cards close to his chest tonight, as only three matches are confirmed pre-show while the other segments are mostly "A Wrestler you like will... do something!" Let's all shiver with anticipation! (As a reminder, tonight's collision, like Dynamite and Rampage before it, are soliciting donations to the Maui Food Bank.) [more inside]
Mask Girl: Season 1: Full Season Season 1 (Full Season)
An office worker who is insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet personality by night until a chain of ill-fated events overtakes her life. [more inside]
August 18
Movie: Sitcom
TW: Suicide attempt themes
An upper-class suburban family suddenly comes apart when the father brings a lab rat home from works. [more inside]
An upper-class suburban family suddenly comes apart when the father brings a lab rat home from works. [more inside]
What We Do in the Shadows: Hybrid Creatures Season 5, Episode 7
Nadja gives back to her community; Laszlo's experiments have some unexpected results. [more inside]
Billions: Original Sin Season 7, Episode 2
Chuck gets his old job back, and Axe wants his old job back too, but Wendy and Wags and Taylor can't convince him that Prince is a bigger threat than the crypto bubble.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart: Desert Oak Show Only Season 1, Episode 5
Alice gets a job and a new relationship. Further depths of June's treachery are revealed. June, Twig, and Candy go on the search for Alice.
Movie: Navalny
In August 2020, Alexei Navalny, leader of the opposition in Russia, barely survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent, and is medically evacuated from the country at the insistence of his wife. During his months-long recovery in Germany, he and his team identify and investigate those who tried to kill him, and he returns to Russia in January 2021. [more inside]
Movie: Doglegs
Doglegs is a cheerfully iconoclastic underground scene where the disabled battle the able-bodied - all in the name of exploding stereotypes. When the disabled champ seeks life and love beyond the ring, his idol, the able-bodied organizer, tries to sabotage his bid for independence. In a battle of the human spirit, can the power of disability win our hero his dreamgirl? [more inside]
Movie: Kotoko
When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies. [more inside]
Movie: Sweet Bean
[TRAILER] The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she’s hiding a troubling secret. Life’s joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry. [more inside]
Movie: Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior. [more inside]
Movie: Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
[TRAILER] Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josee. [more inside]
Movie: Goodbye CP
Documentarian Kazuo Hara follows the lives and activities of Yokota Hiroshi and Yokozuka Koichi, members of an activist group made up of people with cerebral palsy. [more inside]
Heartbeat: Heartbeat Season 1 (Full Season)
Seon Woo Hyul is a vampire who wants to become a human but ended up becoming half-human when he woke up a day before completing his 100 years of sleep. Meanwhile, Joo In Hae is a modern lady who shows no compassion about him and only wanted to survive. Will they find love and learn to care for each other now that fate brought them together? [more inside]
August 17
Dark Winds: Antigonish Season 2, Episode 3
After facing off with a dangerous man, Chee strikes out on his own; Leaphorn and Manuelito partner with the sheriff's department, leading Leaphorn to identify a vital clue.
Lost: Abandoned Rewatch Season 2, Episode 6
Shannon— [more inside]
The Afterparty: Ulysses Season 2, Episode 7
Aniq and Danner move the investigation to Zoe's family, starting with her free-spirited uncle. His tale is an epic, global romance. [more inside]
Special Event: Cinematic Titanic: THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE
China's working on a machine to destroy all life on Earth, for some reason. The military gets involved in a space mission to Venus to replace half of its crew with women. It turns out to be because when the machine activates, the probe can preserve human life on Venus. Implying that people will have to boink a lot for noble reasons is a prevailing theme of science fiction from the time. This was the second episode of Cinematic Titanic, released in 2007.
Reservation Dogs: Friday Season 3, Episode 4
The rez dogs take their punishment for the California trip, Cheese gets a facelift of sorts and Elora and Willie Jack consider their futures.
Movie: Wuthering Heights
Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess. A jidaigeki adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel. [more inside]
Movie: The Ballad of Narayama
[TRAILER] In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife. [more inside]
Movie: ICHI
[TRAILER] Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She's in search of the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick. [more inside]
Movie: The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
[TRAILER] In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection. [more inside]
Movie: Twenty-Four Eyes
[TRAILER] Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming. aka Nijushi no hitomi [more inside]
Movie: The Life of Oharu
[TRAILER] In feudal Japan, Oharu (Kinuyo Tanaka), the daughter of royal samurai Shinzaemon (Ichiro Sugai), secretly has a passionate romance with Katsunosuke (Toshirô Mifune), a man with a meager social standing. When the couple is found out, the law comes down hard on this breach of class: Katsunosuke is put to death and Oharu and her family are banished from the kingdom. Destitute and disgraced, Shinzaemon sells Oharu into prostitution, and she spends years searching for love. aka Saikaku ichidai onna [more inside]
Movie: Wild Geese
As Otama, a young woman who, in order to support her father is trapped into becoming the mistress of a middle-aged pawnbroker, she captures the essence of a caged bird. Otama is a thinker and a watcher, capable of looking inward at herself and outward at her situation at the same time. Thus, when she falls in love with a young student who passes by her house every day, she can both indulge and deny herself that love. aka Wild Geese [more inside]
Movie: Law Abiding Citizen
When a man's family is murdered, and one of the killer's goes free, he sets about destroying the system that deprived him of justice. [more inside]
Movie: Legally Blonde
A fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend and decides to follow him - to Harvard Law School.
August 16
Justified: City Primeval: Adios Season 1, Episode 6
Raylan makes a play for Mansell and comes up empty, while Sweety's escape plan goes up in flames. IndieWire review. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 8/16 and Rampage 8/18: Fight for the Fallen 2023 Season 4, Episode 46
AEW boss Tony Khan announced last week that this week’s shows would be under the Fight for the Fallen banner, with proceeds from Dynamite/Rampage and Collision going to the Maui Food Bank to provide assistance to victims of Maui’s devastating wildfires. Orange Cassidy defends, The Bunny attacks, and Nick Wayne will probably be severely beaten (again). [more inside]
Movie: The Legend & Butterfly
Trailer. A romantic biopic centering on Oda Nobunaga (Takuya Kimura) and his wife Nohime (Haruka Ayase) spanning 30 years of the Sengoku period. Traces Nobunaga's rise to power and struggle to unify Japan viewed through the lens of a tumultuous relationship. Toei Company's 70th Anniversary film. Streaming on Amazon Prime. [more inside]
Movie: Babylon 5: The Road Home
[Trailer:] Full length animated movie (1 hour 19 minutes) which serves as a functional new episode of the original Babylon 5 show. Features John Sheridan being transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. [more inside]
August 15
Only Murders in the Building: Grab Your Hankies Season 3, Episode 3
Oliver races to bring new life to his show as Mabel's investigation into the actual murder collides with a surprising ally. Charles bonds with the cast and Loretta proves her voice is invaluable. [more inside]
August 14
Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Semi-finals
Four teams left. Heartbreak and glory await! [more inside]
Billions: Tower of London Season 7, Episode 1
Guess who’s back.
Project Runway All Stars: The Freedom Challenge Season 20, Episode 10
Make whatever you want and your model will show it off on the outdoor runway. What could go wrong? ELLE Magazine's recap.
Project Runway All Stars: B.O.A.T. Season 20, Episode 9
Project Runway collides with Below Deck for the infamous client challenge. ELLE Magazine's write-up (with spoilers).
Loudermilk: Season 3: Full Final Season Season 3 (Full Season)
Loudermilk continues to lead his Sober Friends Group while trying to take care of his baby brother who was abandoned by his mother. [more inside]
Futurama: Parasites Regained Season 11, Episode 4
After Nibbler falls ill, the crew shrinks down for a dangerous mission into a desert world contained within his litter box.
August 13
AEW Collision: August 12 Season 1, Episode 9
If you like tag team matches, you're going to like this episode. If you looooove tag matches, you're going to love this episode. Also, if your "Miro Alert" watch went off, this episode is the reason. (Late post b/c I was out yesterday, match results below the cut.) [more inside]
Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them. [more inside]
Movie: Session 9
[TRAILER] Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back. [more inside]
Movie: The Ritual Killer
A detective on the verge of retirement teams with a professor of African Studies to track down a serial killer who is performing the ancient black magic practice of Muti. [more inside]
Movie: Untold: Johnny Football
This documentary traces the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of football star Johnny Manziel via interviews with friends, coaches and Manziel himself. [more inside]
Foundation: The Sighted and the Seen Books Included Season 2, Episode 5
Gaal, Salvor and Hari arrive on Ignis and meet the source of a strange signal they've been tracking. Dawn and Dusk are suspicious of Day.
What We Do in the Shadows: Urgent Care Season 5, Episode 6
When Guillermo is injured, Nadja takes him to Urgent Care. Colin has trouble feeding. [more inside]
Movie: Corner Office
As Orson, The Authority's newest employee, finds himself trapped in the absurdities of corporate life, his alienation deepens when he discovers a room he's told doesn't exist. [more inside]
August 12
Dark Winds: Wonders of the Unknown Season 2, Episode 2
Leaphorn explores personal ties to an increasingly mysterious case; Chee is questioned by a reluctant Sgt. Manuelito; the discovery of a body sends Leaphorn and Manuelito in pursuit of a child in danger.
Movie: The Paperboy
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff. [more inside]