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April 29
The Handmaid's Tale: Surprise Season 6, Episode 6
June hides in an unexpected place.
Movie: The Oak
[TRAILER] Nela (Maia Morgenstern) dotes on her father, a shut-in who once worked for Romania's secret police. When he dies suddenly, she is forced to navigate a hostile world that is both comedically overblown (paratroopers are continually making maneuvers into people’s backyards) and genuinely horrific. Eventually, Nela meets Mitica (Răzvan Vasilescu), a doctor whose chaotic energy and nihilism make him her perfect match. [more inside]
April 28
The Rehearsal: Star Potential Season 2, Episode 2
"It's not a singing TV show; it's actually a singing competition as part of another TV show that has nothing to do with singing."
Movie: The Goat and Her Three Kids
(Romanian: Capra cu trei lezi) [TRAILER] Secluded from the world, a single mother of three (Maia Morgenstern) must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer (Marius Bodochi), at all costs. Adapted from Ion Creangă's 1875 folk adaptation of the Big Bad Wolf fable, this Romanian folk horror film from 2022 makes the mother and her three offspring into humans, but leaves all of the bloodshed, horror, and violent retribution. [more inside]
Saint-Pierre: Saint-Pierre (Full season) Season 1 (Full Season)
After one of Donny "Fitz" Fitzpatrick's investigations gets uncomfortably close to the corruption of a powerful local politician, he is exiled to the French collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, where he partners with local police officer Geneviève "Arch" Archambault to solve local crimes. [more inside]
April 27
The Righteous Gemstones: On Your Belly You Shall Go Season 4, Episode 8
In which this show, and perhaps television itself, reaches a climax, and there is still an episode left. Teenjus!! [more inside]
The Last of Us: The Path Books Included Season 2, Episode 3
After tragedy, a road trip.
The Last of Us: The Path Show Only Season 2, Episode 3
After tragedy, a road trip.
Movie: The Shrouds
Cronenberg isn't done yet. Vincent Cassel plays Karsh, a businessman who is grieving deeply for his ex-wife, Becca. Diane Kruger plays Becca and her sister Terry and a third character. [more inside]
Movie: Frankenstein
[Trailer] In this classic adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, a scientist assembles a body out of various corpses and brings it to life. Things do not go well. [more inside]
April 26
Movie: The Wedding Banquet
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet. [more inside]
Doctor Who: The Well Season 2, Episode 3
Far in the future, on a tough, brutal planet, a devastated mining colony has only one survivor. To discover the truth, the Doctor and Belinda must face absolute terror. [more inside]
Movie: The Round-Up
[TRAILER] Years after the failure of Hungary's 1848 revolution, surviving partisans, led by Sándor Rózsa still operate as outlaws. In order to root out Rózsa, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively. [more inside]
Top Chef: You Wanna Pizza Me? Season 22, Episode 7
For this week’s Quickfire Challenge, the chefs must create a dish with an ingredient using only the toughest stains as their clues. Then, in a high-stakes pizza party, the chefs must create pies that are outside of the box to impress guest judges Michelin star chef Wylie Dufresne and “Top Chef All-Star” alumn Spike Mendelsohn, who join Kristen, Tom and Gail at the judges’ table. [more inside]
April 25
Leverage: Redemption: The Scared Stiff Job Season 3, Episode 3
A morally ambiguous CEO has found a way to exploit people's death using cryonics. The team runs a con on the CEO in an attempt to change his ways.
Movie: Looking for Mr. Goodbar
[Trailer] Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters. [more inside]
Leverage: Redemption: The Digital Frankenstein Job Season 3, Episode 2
A corrupt judge is paid to throw a case involving a ghost gun. The team has to find a way to correct the wrong doings of multiple bad guys.
Leverage: Redemption: The Weekend in Paris Job Season 3, Episode 1
A failed job in Paris forces the Leverage crew to hide at an exclusive auction where corrupt elites sell off national treasures. They quickly devise a scheme to stop the mastermind and protect an activist.
Movie: Katalin Varga
[TRAILER] Peter Strickland was well into his 30's and drifting from one soul-destroying job to another. His uncle died and left him a small inheritance. Instead of buying say, a studio flat in Bracknell, Strickland took his £28,000 to Transylvania where he would, over just 17 days, produce and direct a feature film in a country he was not from, in a language he did not speak. Katalin Varga drew instant praise at the Berlin Film Festival. Part meditative folk tale, part domestic drama, part searing film noir, the drama tells the story of a young mother in a remote village who is cast out when her husband learns he is not her son's father. The film launched the career of an acclaimed writer-director who would go on to make such films as In Fabric and Berberian Sound Studio. [more inside]
The Studio: The Pediatric Oncologist Season 1, Episode 6
Matt accompanies Rebecca Hall, his new girlfriend, to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for a fundraiser to benefit children with cancer. Disaster ensues. [more inside]
April 24
Movie: Read My Lips
She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Movie: Speed Racer
Young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile. [more inside]
Movie: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
[TRAILER] Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a 1965 Soviet-era Ukrainian film by the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov based on the 1911 novel by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells a Romeo and Juliet tale of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud. The film is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema. [more inside]
Special Event: Rifftrax: THE ROOM
MST Club presents.... OH HAI MARK. So, it's come to this. The Room. It was part of the 2015 Rifftrax live show. They can't sell that version, probably due to rights issues, but they can sell the "Just The Jokes" version of it. Surprisingly it's become a pop culture phenomenon, and the subject of both a book, The Disaster Artist, and a movie based on that book. So in the movie itself, Johnny is a successful person of some kind, who lives in a house full of photos of spoons. He loves his GF Lisa, but she doesn't love him. She "betray" him, so (spoiler!) he shoots himself. The movie is adamant that that is the story, and none of the subtext you might glean in your viewing is intentional. it must all be in your head, there and in the heads of our intrepid riffers. To this day we don't know why it's called The Room. Released in 2015 and 2016. [more inside]
April 23
The Outer Limits: Don't Open Till Doomsday Season 1, Episode 17
Young newlyweds in 1929 have their nuptial forever disrupted by a strange wedding gift from a mysterious bestower. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: April 23, 2025 Season 6, Episode 30
The Young Bucks (officially) return to the ring in for the first time since dropping the tag titles in October. Two of AEW's hossiest women face off in the Owen Hart tournament. The Don Callis Family faces two superstars they've recently wronged. Also, get your nostalgia receptors ready because 90s rapper, No Limits mogul and former WCW Nitro star Master P will be in attendance to hype the New Orleans crowd. [more inside]
Movie: Siesta
An American skydiver wakes up in the middle of nowhere in Spain and must recount the last five agonizing days to figure out how she got there.
Movie: On the Silver Globe
[TRAILER] (Polish: Na srebrnym globie) On the Silver Globe is an unfinished 1988 Polish epic surrealist science fiction film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski (Possession) and adapted from The Lunar Trilogy by his grand-uncle, Jerzy Żuławski. The plot follows a small group of cosmic explorers who leave Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Holiday Rewatch Season 2, Episode 15
Ma'chello, a dying old man, uses his soul-swapping machine to take over Daniel's body and gets a taste of life on Earth. [more inside]
Andor: Harvest Season 2, Episode 3
Time is running out for everyone.
April 22
Andor: Sagrona Teema Season 2, Episode 2
Cassian caught in a rebel turf war. Mon’s wedding woes mount. The Ferrix survivors face inspection. [more inside]
Andor: One Year Later Season 2, Episode 1
An undercover mission. A sanctuary threatened. A Chandrilian wedding. A chilling Imperial plan.
Movie: American Buffalo
Long-repressed feelings of bitterness and betrayal explode when three inner-city losers plot the robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop. [more inside]
Movie: The Curse of Frankenstein
[TRAILER] Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is a brilliant scientist willing to stop at nothing in his quest to reanimate a deceased body. After alienating his longtime friend and partner, Paul Krempe (Robert Urquhart), with his extreme methods, Frankenstein assembles a hideous creature (Christopher Lee) out of dead body parts and succeeds in bringing it to life. But the monster is not as obedient or docile as Frankenstein expected, and it runs amok, resulting in murder and mayhem. This was the first film in Hammer's run of Frankenstein films. [more inside]
April 21
The Handmaid's Tale: Janine Season 6, Episode 5
June and Moira go undercover. Serena and Nick make consequential choices.
The Rehearsal: Gotta Have Fun Season 2, Episode 1
A new season of the groundbreaking hybrid format HBO documentary series from Nathan Fielder. This season: an examination of a serious issue in aviation safety, and possible solutions.
Top Chef: Pickle Me This Season 22, Episode 6
“Top Chef Masters” alum Susur Lee and his son Jet Bent-Lee join Kristen for the Quickfire Challenge, where the chefs must create a dish using a limited amount of ingredients. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs must create dishes that highlight pickles. The judges are joined by season 21 winner Danny Garcia and Clare Reichenbach, the James Beard Foundation’s Executive Officer. [more inside]
Movie: The Radleys
It follows a seemingly ordinary family with a dark secret: they are vampires. They choose not to drink blood despite their natural cravings, but their truth is revealed one day. [more inside]
Movie: Cocoon
[TRAILER] When a group of trespassing seniors (Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn) swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor. [more inside]
April 20
The Righteous Gemstones: For Jealousy Is the Rage of a Man Season 4, Episode 7
Eli confronts Cobb, Dr. Watson gets a bath, and Jesse and Judy try to lift Kelvin from despair.
The Last of Us: Through the Valley Books Included Season 2, Episode 2
As a storm brews in the mountains, the people of Jackson Hole prepare for the worst amid increased sightings of Infected. Meanwhile, Abby weighs her options. [more inside]
The Last of Us: Through the Valley Show Only Season 2, Episode 2
As a storm brews in the mountains, the people of Jackson Hole prepare for the worst amid increased sightings of Infected. Meanwhile, Abby weighs her options. [more inside]
Person of Interest: Pretenders Rewatch Season 4, Episode 6
Reese, Shaw and Fusco must protect an unassuming office worker who stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy while moonlighting as fake detective. Meanwhile, Finch travels to Hong Kong as part of his academic cover identity. [more inside]
Abbott Elementary: Please Touch Museum Season 4, Episode 22
It's field trip day! Gregory's dad is also visiting. [more inside]
Movie: Quest
A child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract learning-games taught to the child bear an eerie resemblance to mammoth tasks and obstacles that hinder him in his journey. Can he complete the quest before his 8 days are up, and what lies at the end of this arcane sunless world? The gray, stagnating civilization place all their hope in a future they cannot comprehend and learned tasks whose meaning they no longer understand. A 30 minute short film by Saul and Elaine Bass. [more inside]
Movie: Scales
[TRAILER] A poor fishing village is governed by dark tradition: every family must give away a daughter to the sea creatures who inhabit the waters nearby. In turn, the sea creatures are hunted by the men of the village. Saved from this ordeal as a baby by her father, 12 year-old Hayat (Basima Hajjar) is shunned and considered a curse. When Hayat's mother gives birth to her new-born brother, Hayat must accept the brutal custom by sacrificing herself to these creatures or find a way to escape. [more inside]
April 19
Wheel of Time: He Who Comes with the Dawn Season 3, Episode 8
Nynaeve, Elayne, Mat, and Min confront the Black Ajah and their futures. Moiraine and Lan prepare to face their fate. Rand and Egwene set their destinies in motion. [more inside]
Special Event: WrestleMania 41: Night One & Night Two (4/19/2025 & 4/20/2025)
Pro-wrestling's has it's season finale as WrestleMania returns to Las Vegas for the first time since 1993 -- don't watch WM IX, it's really awful (except for the togas and Bobby Heenan riding backwards on a camel). John Cena's long-awaited heel turn means trouble for red-meat American babyface Cody Rhodes. CM Punk traded his principles and reputation for a chance to (sort of) achieve his remaining life goal of main-eventing the biggest show. Recent AEW alums Rey Fenix and Penta El Zero Miedo will make their Mania debuts, blonde-on-blonde combat as Tiffany Stratton will try to overcome Queen Charlotte Flair, basically every title being fought over these two nights. [more inside]
Doctor Who: Lux Season 2, Episode 2
The Doctor's quest to get Belinda home takes the Tardis to Miami in 1952, where an abandoned cinema is hiding a terrifying secret. Can the Doctor uncover Lux's power? [more inside]
Movie: All We Imagine as Light
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. [more inside]
AEW Collision: April 17, 2025: Spring Breakthru Season 2, Episode 42
Collision was bumped forward to Thursday since there's no way it could hope to compete for viewers with this weekend's WrestleMania, but Tony Khan rewarded Boston's loyalty by giving fans two title defense and some unexpected wrestler returns. [more inside]
Movie: The Sect
[TRAILER] Something something, slaughtered hippies, devil cult, secret basement, mystery beetles. Look, it's a Michele Soavi film, co-written by Dario Argento, the plot is incidental; it's the vibes. AKA The Devil's Daughter. [more inside]
April 18
Movie: The Killer
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. [more inside]
Movie: Sinners
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown in 1932 to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Movie: The Amateur
A CIA cryptographer manages to blackmail his agency into training him to let him go after a group of terrorists who killed his wife.
Your Friends and Neighbors: Deuce Season 1, Episode 2
After an unsuccessful job interview, Coop pawns a stolen watch.
Your Friends and Neighbors: This Is What Happens Season 1, Episode 1
Hedge fund manager Andy "Coop" Cooper (Jon Hamm) resorts to burglary after losing his job, targeting wealthy neighbors to maintain his family's lifestyle, but makes a fateful error breaking into the wrong home. In episode 1, Coop attends a neighbor's barbecue, where he faces his ex-wife Mel (Amanda Peet), and makes a surprising choice.
Movie: Bring Them Down
An Irish shepherding family thrust into battle on several fronts: internal strife, hostility within the family, rivalry with another farmer. Paternalism, heritage, and the generational trauma cycle through the cultural prism of Ir... [more inside]
April 17
Mystery Science Theater 3000: KTMA episode 21 LEGEND OF THE DINOSAURS Season 1, Episode 34
MST Club presents... and it's been a while since we've done this! We've avoided doing the KTMA episodes, the nebulous "Season Zero" of MST3K, because some of them are sincerely tough going. But going by the idea that the last episodes of the season will probably be the ones with the best writing, we figured we might try a few of them. This one is the last episode of the season, putting the series closest to the form it would be in when it was unleashed upon an unsuspecting Comedy Channel. Because Fanfare doesn't support a "Season 0," I'm numbering KTMA episodes going from the end of Season 1, making this episode 34: 13 + 21.
LEGEND OF THE DINOSAURS (a.k.a. Legend of the Dinosaurs & Monster Birds) is a Japanese movie brought to the US by Sandy Frank's distribution company, like the Gamera movies, Time of the Apes, Fugitive Alien & II, and Mighty Jack. It turns out dinosaurs lurk near Mt. Fuji, and they're hungry! In an ice cave their eggs are hatching, which is probably bad news I dunno.
Movie: Four Sided Triangle
[TRAILER] Two brilliant scientists unlock the secret to duplicating life, only to find their actions have deadly consequences. When they use their invention to clone the woman they both love, a dangerous love triangle ensues. An early sci-fi/horror thriller from Hammer Film Productions. [more inside]