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Severance: Hello, Ms. Cobel Season 2, Episode 1
Mark returns to work under different circumstances. Secrets from the Outie world come to light. [more inside]
Movie: Benedetta
17th century France! A grimy place of plague of brigands. But situated in the countryside, a charming convent where we meet Benedetta, a young and devout nun whose relationship to Christ is unusually personal, and whose relationship with a novitiate is definitely not something Mother Superior needs to know about. It's Benedetta!, a movie whose title does not end with an exclamation point, but ought to. [more inside]
Person of Interest: Mors Praematura Season 3, Episode 6
Now free, Root receives a directive from the Machine that requires Shaw's assistance – by any means necessary – and takes extreme measures to gain her compliance. Also, Reese and Finch look for clues as to why a mild-mannered estate investigator’s number has come up. [more inside]
Silo: The Safeguard Show Only Season 2, Episode 9
Billings' faith is shaken. Lukas heads to the down deep. Knox identifies the traitor. Juliette uncovers the truth about Solo's past. [more inside]
Person of Interest: Razgovor Season 3, Episode 5
When Shaw is tasked to stay close to a 10-year-old identified by The Machine, she grudgingly develops respect for the young girl's skills in surveillance and realizes it could be the very reason why her number has come up. Meanwhile, Carter's mission to bring HR to justice risks exposure. [more inside]
Movie: Kaiju Tuesday: original Daimajin trilogy (1966)
The vengeful stone warrior god, Daimajin (a.k.a. Majin), comes to life to rescue peasants and his faithful, who are brutalized by violent warlords. [more inside]
Movie: Slade In Flame
Struggling musicians form a band named Flame, and are picked up by new, slick management, only to break up at their peak. A depiction of the rock band business in the UK starring the 70s glam band Slade, as the fictional band. [more inside]
Black Doves: In the bleak midwinter Season 1, Episode 6
Armed with evidence and bent on vengeance, Helen goes searching for the Clarks; as the conspiracy starts to unravel, she has a decision to make.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Hunted Rewatch Season 3, Episode 11
At Angosia III, a world applying for Federation membership, the Enterprise encounters a dark secret that the Angosians have tried to sweep under the Roga. [more inside]
Movie: Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
[TRAILER] When famous American detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in the strange case of a missing dog and an even stranger carnivorous plant. [more inside]
Only Murders in the Building: Hello, Darkness Season 2, Episode 8
The trio tries to save a loved one from the killer during a blackout, while the other Arconia residents explore unexpected connections. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Prisoners Season 2, Episode 3
When the team investigates a rather insignificant planet, a decrepit resident asks for protection from a pursuer. As it turns out, however, it is a murderer and SG 1 ends up together with him, on trial.
Gilmore Girls: Kiss and Tell Rewatch Season 1, Episode 7
Rory gets kissed and Lorelei loses it. Then Dean gets invited over and Rory loses it. [more inside]
Gilmore Girls: Rory's Birthday Parties Rewatch Season 1, Episode 6
Rory has two 16th birthday parties: one hosted by her mother, one by her grandmother.
Movie: Blood Quantum
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. [more inside]
Movie: Chasing Amy
Holden and Banky are successful Superhero comic book artists. Everything is going great until Holden meets Romance comic book artist Alyssa. Holden falls for her, but there's a problem... she's a lesbian! Can they be friends while constantly talking about sex and comic books in the mid 90s? [more inside]
Movie: Dune
[TRAILER] In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom. This post is for the 1984 adaptation by the late David Lynch. [more inside]
Silo: Into the Fire Show Only Season 2, Episode 10
The rebels make their move-and so does Juliette. [more inside]
Movie: Three... Extremes / Sam gang 2
[Trailer] An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors. --IMDb [more inside]
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Movie: Nosferatu the Vampyre
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror. Directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani.
Movie: Hardly Working
After The Day The Clown Cried fell apart, Jerry Lewis stopped directing for the rest of the Seventies. Then he launched a comeback with this episodic comedy about an unemployed circus clown trying to find employment. Roger Ebert called it "one of the worst movies ever to achieve commercial release in this country". [more inside]
Movie: Sons of Steel
[TRAILER] When heavy metal singer/peace activist Black Alice finds himself in a dystopian future, he must go back in time to save the world from a nuclear disaster. An Australian sci-fi rock musical from 1988. [more inside]
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: The Real Good Guys Season 1, Episode 8
A journey filled with adventure comes to a surprising end.
Squid Game: Squid Game 2 Season 2 (Full Season)
Squid Game winner Gi-hun uses his winnings to seek retribution against the operators of the games.
Abbott Elementary: Testing Season 4, Episode 10
Janine's class fails their practice test. Jacob tries to engage a student, and has a fractious relationship with his bus driver. Mr Johnson trains his intended replacement.
Movie: Queen of Hearts
A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson. [more inside]
Movie: The Brutalist
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Tóth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost. [more inside]
Movie: Inland Empire
[TRAILER] Nikki (Laura Dern), an actress, takes on a role in a new film, and because her husband (Peter J. Lucas) is very jealous, her co-star Devon (Justin Theroux) gets a warning not to make any romantic overtures -- especially since the characters they play are having an affair. Both actors learn that the project is a remake of an unfinished film in which the stars were murdered. [more inside]
Movie: Singles
[TRAILER] In Seattle during the era of grunge music, the lives and relationships of a group of young people, all living in the same apartment building, go through a period of flux. Among them are waitress and aspiring architect Janet (Bridget Fonda), who finds herself obsessed with bad boy musician Cliff (Matt Dillon) ; Linda (Kyra Sedgwick), an emotionally fragile environmentalist on the look-out for love; and Steve (Campbell Scott), a quintessential nice guy who studies traffic patterns. [more inside]
Movie: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Two Jedi Knights escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to reclaim their old glory.
Movie: Dangerous Liaisons
Stephen Frears' 1988 adaptation of Laclos' 1782 French novel stars Glenn Close and John Malkovich as two awful aristocrats scheming to destroy morally upright Michelle Pfeiffer, with young innocents Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves as collateral damage. Nominated for Best Picture, it won 3 Oscars, including the costume and production design awards. 94/83 on RT. Includes rape and sexual manipulation. Also includes a Keanu/Malkovich swordfight. [more inside]
Movie: The Hunger
The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that's currently the case ... [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]
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Defector Rewatch Season 3, Episode 10
The Enterprise grants asylum to a defector from the Romulan Empire, who claims to have vital information concerning a renewed Romulan offensive against the Federation. [more inside]
The Great Pottery Throw Down: 1: A Salad Set and Sangria Jugs Season 8, Episode 1
The bucket of doom returns! Twelve potters assemble for the 2025 season. No doubt there will be the usual spot tests, requests for personal stories in ceramics, throwing off the hump, need for Siobhán to talk someone down, hopefully the odd cat in the pieces about the contestants, and of course tears from Keith. [more inside]
Movie: Anatomy of a Fall
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness. [more inside]
Movie: Altered States
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Movie: Band of the Hand
Five juvenile lost causes are sent to the Everglades where a war veteran tries to reform them using survival tactics. Their new skills and resolve are tested when a Miami drug lord targets them for trying to clean up their neighbood. [more inside]
Movie: Scream 3
[Trailer] While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them. --IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Last Summer
Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger. [more inside]
Columbo: An Exercise in Fatality Season 4, Episode 1
In which we learn the importance of using safeties. Always lift with a buddy. [more inside]
Movie: The She Beast
A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.
The Pitt: 9:00AM Season 1, Episode 3
Samira does her best to keep Whitaker on the right track. A teen overdose sparks conflict in the ER. [more inside]
Movie: Godzilla Minus One
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. (In theaters now) [more inside]
Movie: The Grand Budapest Hotel
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. (capsule description from IMDB) [more inside]
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Vengeance Factor Rewatch Season 3, Episode 9
Picard's diplomatic effort to reunite the Acamarians is complicated by Riker's new/old girlfriend. [more inside]
Movie: The Elephant Man
Dr. Frederic Treves (Anthony Hopkins) discovers Joseph (John) Merrick (John Hurt) in a sideshow. Born with a congenital disorder, Merrick uses his disfigurement to earn a living as the "Elephant Man." Treves brings Merrick into his home, discovering that his rough exterior hides a refined soul, and that Merrick can teach the stodgy British upper class of the time a lesson about dignity. [more inside]
Movie: Birdy (1984)
Two high school friends return home from the Vietnam War, one seriously wounded, the other mentally traumatized and obsessed with becoming a bird. [more inside]
Movie: Anora
Anora, a young exotic dancer and sex worker, meets and accepts the marriage proposal of the hard-partying son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news hits the tabloids, Anora's fairytale is threatened as enforcers are dispatched to take control of the situation before his parents arrive in New York to undo what's been done.
Movie: Lost Highway
[TRAILER] David Lynch fashions two separate but intersecting stories, one about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman), tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other is a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that the women in both are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette). [more inside]
Movie: The End
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble. [more inside]
American Primeval: "There is no safe haven in these brutal lands." Season 1 (Full Season)
This six-episode limited series follows the gritty and adventurous exploration of the birth of the American West, the violent collisions of cults, religion, and men and women fighting for control of the new world. [more inside]
Movie: Eraserhead
In David Lynch's "dream of dark and troubling things," Henry is left alone in his apartment to care for his deformed baby and has a series of strange encounters with the beautiful girl across the hall and the woman living in his radiator. [more inside]
Movie: Chasing Chasing Amy
In 2018, Sav Rodgers gave a talk "The Rom-Com That Saved My Life". That rom-com was Chasing Amy.
Chasing Chasing Amy is the documentary they made after, examining the movies production and legacy from a queer perspective, and Sav's deepening relationship with girlfriend Regina. [more inside]
Fargo: The Useless Hand Season 5, Episode 9
The tide turns.
Movie: Scream 2
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sydney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
Only Murders in the Building: Whole season Season 1, Episode 1
They had me at Steve Martin and Martin Short. Selena Gomez is excellent, too. The three neighbors living in a posh NYC building team up to solve a murder in the building while making a true-crime podcast about their efforts. The ending twist sets up a season 2. It's on Hulu.
Movie: Big Game
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.