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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]
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]
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]
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.
Special Event: 2025 Grammy Awards
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]
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]
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.
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]
King of the Hill: The Peggy Horror Picture Show Season 11, Episode 1
Peggy becomes friends with a local drag queen.
King of the Hill: Harlottown Season 10, Episode 4
Hank is devastated when Peggy discovers that Arlen's founding mothers were prostitutes.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
The Pitt: 11:00AM Season 1, Episode 5
Inside to avoid spoilers [more inside]
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]
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.
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]
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]
January 30
Severance: Who Is Alive? Season 2, Episode 3
Mark, Helly, Irving, and Dylan search for answers.
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]
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]