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February 4

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]
posted by growabrain at 1:47 AM - 2 comments

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]
posted by growabrain at 1:12 AM - 4 comments

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.
posted by chavenet at 12:48 AM - 11 comments

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]
posted by Navelgazer at 5:47 PM - 1 comment

Book: 2025: Mandate for Leadership

The most influential book of 2025 is the Heritage Foundation's 2025: Mandate for Leadership. [more inside]
posted by otherchaz at 5:32 PM - 3 comments

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]
posted by chavenet at 4:11 PM - 11 comments

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]
posted by Navelgazer at 3:59 PM - 1 comment

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.
posted by chavenet at 12:14 PM - 6 comments

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]
posted by Lemkin at 11:57 AM - 3 comments

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]
posted by Navelgazer at 11:13 AM - 2 comments

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]
posted by Frayed Knot at 9:57 AM - 13 comments

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]
posted by vacapinta at 7:49 AM - 1 comment

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]
posted by Navelgazer at 7:10 AM - 1 comment

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.
posted by box at 5:46 AM - 1 comment

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.
posted by box at 5:39 AM - 1 comment

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]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:49 AM - 13 comments

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]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:28 AM - 5 comments

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]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:12 AM - 4 comments

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]
posted by 2N2222 at 7:27 PM - 2 comments

AEW Collision: February 1, 2025  Season 2, Episode 31

FTR honors the Huntsville audience with a good ol' street fight. Daniel Garcia defends his TNT title against two more experienced men in a difficult situation. Rush, Dralistico, Mortos and Bandido raise the luchador ratio significantly. Megan Bayne is officially All Elite. Harley Cameron has a good day, Max Castor not so much. [more inside]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:57 PM - 1 comment

The Agency: Overtaken By Events  Season 1, Episode 10

As command of the operation shifts out his hands, Bosko shares a grim reality; Naomi receives troubling news out of Iran; Richardson runs a rogue operation; Felix gets overtaken by events; Martian, desperate, makes a devil's bargain.
posted by extramundane at 3:59 PM - 5 comments

Special Event: 2025 Grammy Awards

How to watch, performers, winners list.
posted by box at 2:25 PM - 4 comments

Book: Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

The black sheep of her family, Anna is reluctant to join them on a vacation to a remote villa in Monteperso. The gathering begins with the usual snide jabs and not-so-veiled criticisms, but when strange things begin to happen at the villa, it seems there’s more to fear than the usual family drama. [more inside]
posted by motherofdog at 1:34 PM - 1 comment

Movie: The Dark and the Wicked

[Trailer] "On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family." [more inside]
posted by johnofjack at 12:48 PM - 6 comments

Special Event: FireAid LA Benefit Concert

FireAid took place at the Kia Forum and the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA, on January 30 to raise money for those impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires. Complete setlist, on Hulu for a limited time.
posted by box at 10:03 AM - 2 comments

Movie: Dog Man

The film adaptation of Dav Pilkey Dog Man, half dog and half man, aka supa cop, and his pursuit of the arch villain, Petey the Cat. [more inside]
posted by Atreides at 8:10 AM - 18 comments

King of the Hill: The Peggy Horror Picture Show  Season 11, Episode 1

Peggy becomes friends with a local drag queen.
posted by box at 7:06 AM - 2 comments

King of the Hill: Harlottown  Season 10, Episode 4

Hank is devastated when Peggy discovers that Arlen's founding mothers were prostitutes.
posted by box at 6:31 AM - 0 comments

February 1

Gilmore Girls: Dead Uncles and Vegetables  Season 2, Episode 17

Luke plans a funeral that nobody wants to attend. Emily tries to plan a wedding that shouldn't be. Taylor plans to shut down a new farmer's market. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 10:40 PM - 2 comments

Gilmore Girls: There's the Rub  Season 2, Episode 16

Emily takes Lorelai to a spa. Lorelai takes Emily to a bar. Rory fails to have a night to herself. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 2:33 PM - 1 comment

Movie: 17 Blocks

"Using two decades of intimate home video, the story of the Sanford family, whose struggles with addiction and gun violence eventually lead to a journey of love, loss, and acceptance." [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 12:44 PM - 0 comments

American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson: Complete Series  Season 1 (Full Season)

This is the four-part documentary about the O.J. Simpson trial that just premiered on Netflix. [more inside]
posted by box at 12:36 PM - 2 comments

Gilmore Girls: Lost & Found  Season 2, Episode 15

Rory can't find the bracelet Dean made for her. Luke and Jess can't keep living in that tiny converted apartment. Lorelai can't go up on ladders anymore. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 11:10 AM - 0 comments

King of the Hill: A Rover Runs Through It  Season 9, Episode 1

The Hills travel to Montana where Peggy attempts to make amends with her estranged rancher mother; Meanwhile, Hank clashes with the locals and Henry Winkler.
posted by box at 6:00 AM - 5 comments

January 31

The Chris Isaak Show: Freud’s Dilemma - The One With The Spitter   Season 1, Episode 1

Created by Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, William Lucas Walker. Diane and Andrew did a few things like Northern Exposure and the Sopranos. Starring Chris Isaak, Kristin Dattilo, Jed Rees, Hershel Yatovitz, Rowland Salley, Kenney Dale Johnson, Jennifer Calvert. The first episode of the Chris Isaak Show aired on March 1, 2001. [more inside]
posted by ashbury at 7:57 PM - 5 comments

Gilmore Girls: It Should've Been Lorelai  Season 2, Episode 14

Christopher brings his girlfriend to Rory's debate. Lorelai brings Christopher to Friday Night Dinner. Rory brings Lane a new CD. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 5:09 PM - 1 comment

Gilmore Girls: A Tisket, A Tasket  Season 2, Episode 13

Stars Hollow holds just the quaintest li'l bachelorette auction, which doesn't go well for everybody. Lane tells her mom about Henry. Emily agrees with Lorelai. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 2:00 PM - 2 comments

Movie: Kin-dza-dza!

[TRAILER] Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-Dza-Dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth. A deadpan, absurdist Rusisan sci-fi comedy form 1986, about alien cultures even more haphazard and WTF? than our own, the film is also a savage satire of bureaucratic idiocy and dysfunction no matter what political system you’re living under – or what planet you’re living on. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:06 PM - 1 comment

The Pitt: 11:00AM  Season 1, Episode 5

Inside to avoid spoilers [more inside]
posted by ellieBOA at 12:50 PM - 12 comments

Book: The You You Are by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD

Available for free on Apple Books, in both text and audiobook versions. The audiobook is read by Michael Chernus. [more inside]
posted by simonw at 9:58 AM - 19 comments

King of the Hill: Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane  Season 8, Episode 7

Hank lives his boyhood dream of driving a big rig when helping his mother move. Bobby tags along and, unfortunately, so do Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer; Meanwhile, Peggy and Luanne write a Christmas carol.
posted by box at 7:21 AM - 1 comment

Gilmore Girls: Richard in Stars Hollow  Season 2, Episode 12

Having trouble filling the hours post-retirement, Richard spends the day with Lorelai. Paris goes hunting for Stars Hollow's seedy underbelly. Dean delivers the car he built for Rory. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 7:04 AM - 1 comment

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Full Series  Season 1 (Full Season)

In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their fate. Based on the book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [more inside]
posted by LizBoBiz at 12:18 AM - 3 comments

January 30

Severance: Who Is Alive?  Season 2, Episode 3

Mark, Helly, Irving, and Dylan search for answers.
posted by simonw at 10:25 PM - 95 comments

Bad Sisters: Season Two  Season 2 (Full Season)

The five Very Not Bad Garvey Sisters (including co-creator Sharon Horgan) return for a second season of the most Irish dark-yet-heartfelt mystery-comedy on TV. Plus FanFare-favorite Fiona Shaw lives across the street now. [more inside]
posted by nobody at 9:08 PM - 6 comments

Gilmore Girls: Secrets and Loans  Season 2, Episode 11

The Stars Hollow house has termites. Lane tries out being a cheerleader. Rory won't tell Paris her PSAT scores. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 5:06 PM - 2 comments

Book: Chain-Gang All-Stars

The thrilling debut novel from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. [more inside]
posted by Kybard at 5:05 PM - 1 comment

Special Event: RiffTrax: LANCELOT GUARDIAN OF TIME

MST Club presents! A "gnarly" and "radical" movie where Lancelot is in the former-present-day and young Arthur is a 90s kid. It's "totally awesome," so "cowabunga dude." Released quite recently, in September 2024.
posted by JHarris at 4:25 PM - 0 comments

Movie: Last Man Standing

A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin at 3:20 PM - 1 comment

Movie: The Party Animal

It's the old 1980s teen sex comedy trope. Clumsy-but-eager college freshman Pondo Sinatra just can't get laid. After many failed attempts he turns to science to improve his sexual status, with predictable results. [more inside]
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 2:46 PM - 0 comments

Gilmore Girls: The Bracebridge Dinner  Season 2, Episode 10

Christmas in Stars Hollow! A last-minute group cancellation at the inn allows Sookie and Lorelai to throw a festive sleepover for all their friends and family. Christopher calls Lorelai to invite Rory to Boston. Dean tries to break up a fight. Jess and Rory take a sleigh-ride together. Rune can't get his pants on. And Richard is in mysteriously high spirits. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 1:14 PM - 7 comments

Movie: Flight Risk

A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 1:10 PM - 4 comments

Movie: Absolute Beginners

In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin at 12:00 PM - 2 comments

Movie: Sugarcane

[TRAILER] An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. A 2025 Academy Award nominated film in the Best Documentary Feature Film category. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:56 AM - 1 comment

Movie: Porcelain War

[TRAILER] Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living. A 2025 Academy Award nominated film in the Best Documentary Feature Film category. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:54 AM - 1 comment

Movie: No Other Land

[TRAILER] This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval. A 2025 Academy Award nominated film in the Best Documentary Feature Film category. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:51 AM - 3 comments

Movie: Black Box Diaries

[TRAILER] Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems. A 2025 Academy Award nominated film for Best Documentary Feature Film. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:47 AM - 1 comment

King of the Hill: Pigmalion  Season 7, Episode 9

Luanne is wooed by millionaire Trip Larsen (voiced by Michael Keaton)... who has bizarre plans for her.
posted by box at 11:34 AM - 3 comments

Person of Interest: The Devil's Share  Season 3, Episode 10

As the POI team seeks justice for Carter’s murder, Finch realizes one of his team members may go one step too far in order to end the war with HR. Also, the Machine gives out the number for NYPD Officer Patrick Simmons, one of the crime organization’s key players. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 10:10 AM - 7 comments

Gilmore Girls: Run Away, Little Boy  Season 2, Episode 9

Rory plays Juliet, with Paris as director. Lorelai goes on a date with a guy from her business class. We all say a fond farewell to Tristan. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer at 9:37 AM - 2 comments