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Only Connect: Hopsters v Midlanders Season 20, Episode 9
Three Midlanders take on a team of ale aficionados in trying to connect a series of clues.
Movie: Strange Darling
A twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder spree. [more inside]
Only Murders in the Building: Valley of the Dolls Season 4, Episode 7
Terrified by a threat inside the Arconia, the trio race out of the city. A member of Charles' family provides refuge, and yet, this safe house proves to be anything but.
Movie: The Police Are Blundering in the Dark
During an outbreak of violent murders in the area targeting young women, a journalist searching for a female friend gone missing ends up in a villa owned by an eccentric photographer. [more inside]
Kaos: Full Season Season 1 (Full Season)
A darkly comedic and contemporary reimagining of Greek mythology, exploring themes of gender politics, power, and life in the underworld. Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) receives an ominous prophecy that makes him questions his omnipotence, his wife/sister/queen Hera (Janet McTeer) enjoys listening to the complaints of the mortals in the modern city, and Prometheus (Stephen Dillane) narrates from his chains. Created by Charlie Covell and all episodes are streaming on Netflix.
Matlock: Pilot Season 1, Episode 1
IMDB summarizes: "Follows Madeline Matlock as she rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm, where she uses her wily tactics to win cases and expose wrong doing." [more inside]
Agatha All Along: If I Can’t Reach You / Let My Song Teach You Season 1, Episode 4
The coven faces their second trial on The Witches’ Road
My So-Called Life: Guns and Gossip Season 1, Episode 3
A gun goes off in school, and Rickie (Wilson Cruz) is involved. A rumor makes the rounds at Liberty High that Angela (Claire Danes) slept with Jordan (Jared Leto). [more inside]
Movie: AfrAId
[TRAILER] Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can--and will--make sure nothing--and no one--gets in her family's way. [more inside]
My So-Called Life: Dancing in the Dark Season 1, Episode 2
Rayanne (A.J. Langer) arranges for Angela (Claire Danes) and Jordan (Jared Leto) to meet under the pretense of Jordan selling Angela a fake ID at the house of Brian Krakow (Devon Gummersall). Meanwhile, Angela's parents, Patty (Bess Armstrong) and Graham (Tom Irwin) take ballroom dancing lessons. [more inside]
My So-Called Life: Pilot Season 1, Episode 1
Angela Chase (Claire Danes) begins a friendship with Rayanne Graff (A.J. Langer) and Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cruz). At home, there is tension between her and her mother, Patty (Bess Armstrong). [more inside]
Taskmaster: Series 18—the entire run. (Autumn 2024) Season 18 (Full Season)
The waiting is over! It's time once again to perform wacky random tasks to earn the appreciation of the Taskmaster, thereby being doled out valueless points so we can win a cheap likeness of the Taskmaster's head! ...Or, more accurately, it's time blablablah random tasks vicariously, by watching five unlucky comedians attempting said wacky shit, blablablah etc. Let's welcome to the stage: Andy Zaltzman! Babatunde Aléshé! Emma Sidi! Jack Dee! and Rosie Jones! Their time starts NOW! [more inside]
Movie: The Wild Robot
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
Movie: Violett
[TRAILER] In a rural Australian town, a sick mother fears unspeakable evil will soon snatch her 11 year old daughter, Violett. As bizarre visions and disturbing characters from the neighborhood emerge, Sonya is about to discover more than just one grisly truth. [more inside]
Movie: Sorry/Not Sorry
[Trailer] An inside look at Louis CK's fall and return to the spotlight. Interviews include fellow comedians and women who spoke up about his sexual misconduct. -- IMDb [more inside]
Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror: Episode 1 Season 1, Episode 1
Residents of a small town become obsessed with spirals! Once you start to look for them, spirals are everywhere. You can choose to ignore the spirals, but that doesn't mean the spirals will ignore you. Because they won't! Spirals!! [more inside]
Movie: Things Will Be Different
Two siblings on the run hide out in a farmhouse and get into some adventures in this cerebral time-travel movie. The trailer has some mild spoilers. [more inside]
Movie: Inglourious Basterds
It is the first year of Germany's occupation of France. Allied officer Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) assembles a team of Jewish soldiers to commit violent acts of retribution against the Nazis, including the taking of their scalps. He and his men join forces with Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), a German actress and undercover agent, to bring down the leaders of the Third Reich. Their fates converge with theater owner Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), who seeks to avenge the Nazis' execution of her family. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: The Fight Rewatch Season 5, Episode 19
It's the eye of Chakotay/ It's the thrill of the fight/ Rising up to the chaos of our rival/ And the neuroatypical/ Maquis Mauler guy/ Will get us through this mess with the eye... of Chakotay! [more inside]
The Franchise: Scene 31A: Tecto Meets Eye Season 1, Episode 1
Problems abound on the set of a superhero franchise movie. [more inside]
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Doomed to Die Season 2, Episode 7
In the penultimate episode of Season 2, the remaining elven force of Lindon follow King Gil-Galad into battle to stop Sauron still at work in Celebrimbor's realm of Eregion. As the city remains under siege by Adar, Celebrimbor fights Sauron's influence as the nine rings are completed. Elsewhere, the fate of Khazad-dum becomes a conflict between father and son. [more inside]
Movie: Will & Harper
In this intimate portrayal of friendship, transition, and America, Will Ferrell and his close friend of thirty years decide to go on a cross-country road trip to explore a new chapter in their relationship. [more inside]
Movie: The Comedy of Terrors
[Trailer] Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones. -IMDb [more inside]
The Great British Bake Off: Biscuit Week Season 15, Episode 2
Bakers compete by making Viennese sandwiches, minty desserts, and puppet theatres.
Movie: Exhuma
[TRAILER] When a renowned shaman (Kim Go-Eun) and her protégé (Lee Do-hyun) are hired by a wealthy, enigmatic family, they begin investigating the cause of a disturbing supernatural illness that affects only the first-born children of each generation. With the help of a knowledgeable mortician (Yoo Hai-jin) and the country's most revered geomancer (Choi Min-sik), they soon trace the affliction's origin to a long-hidden family grave located on sacred ground. [more inside]
Special Event: Fall 2024 Anime Season / Summer 2024 Wrap-Up
The last few shows for Summer 2024 are wrapping up, so time for the quarterly update post!
Initial impressions, reviews, and [more inside]
Nobody Wants This: Nobody Wants This! Season 1 (Full Season)
An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall in love.
Movie: I'm Not Scared
[TRAILER] In a small town in Italy in 1978, 9-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) finds a boy, seemingly dead in a deep hole in the ground. Terrified, Michele decides not to tell his father. Returning to the scene, Michele discovers the boy, Fillipo (Mattia Di Perro) is still alive and bound by a chain. Michele continues to keep his secret as he makes several visits to Fillipo, who has no memory of the events leading up to his captivity. A mystery/thriller by Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo, Marakech Express) based on the novel of the same name by Niccolò Ammaniti. Italian title: Io non ho paura. [more inside]
Movie: V/H/S/Beyond
Six bloodcurdling tapes unleash horror in a sci-fi inspired hellscape, pushing the boundaries of fear and suspense. Now streaming on Shudder.
Movie: Megalopolis
An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster. [more inside]
Movie: Rebel Ridge
An ex-Marine grapples his way through a web of small-town corruption when an attempt to post bail for his cousin escalates into a violent standoff with the local police chief. [more inside]
From: Season 3 (Full season) Season 3 (Full Season)
As the weather grows colder, the residents grow more desperate.
Movie: Wolfs
Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer (George Clooney) soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart (Brad Pitt). Now streaming on AppleTV.
Movie: Deathdream / Dead of Night
[Trailer] A young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death. -- IMDb [more inside]
Special Event: iRiffs: ZARDOZ
MST Club presents! Some years ago Rifftrax piloted a means by which people could record riffs for movies themselves that they'd sell through the site, a program that they called iRiffs. It appears that iRiffs can no longer be found on Rifftrax site searches, but Google can still turn up the pages, and they can still be bought. That is how I purchased this riff of ill-advised Sean Connery vehicle Zardoz, produced by a group known as FilmRoasters. I don't know if FilmRoasters is still active, but they have a Youtube channel, which the address filmroasters.com redirects to. The most recent videos on the Youtube channel are six years old. I don't know how old the Zardoz riff is, but if it's six years old that would put its release at around 1998. FilmRoasters appears to be comprised of Eric Vinyard, Brandon Bates and Wes Allen.
Movie: À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma / At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
A gravedigger prowls the city in search of a female to bear him a son. -- IMDb [more inside]
Only Murders in the Building: The Stunt Man Season 4, Episode 4
The Podcasting Trio explore the closed off world of stunt actors by visiting a favorite dive of Sazz's. Mabel discovers the true secret behind the West Tower suspects' suspicious behavior and Dudenoff's role. A surprise guest star hits themselves in the head with a trash can lid. [more inside]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Under the Cloak of War Season 2, Episode 8
When the Enterprise hosts a Klingon ambassador, Dr. M'Benga is haunted by moments when he was forced to take extreme measures. [more inside]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Lost in Translation Season 2, Episode 6
Uhura is receiving strange signals, but she's distracted by a zombie of the stratosphere. [more inside]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Charades Season 2, Episode 5
Spock has a very crucial meeting with the future in-laws to attend, but he may be missing a couple of important points. [more inside]
Yellowstone: Season One Season 1 (Full Season)
The Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Kevin Costner), controls the largest contiguous ranch in the modern day United States. This huge piece of land puts them constantly at odds with those it borders: land developers, an Indian reservation, and the nearby national park. From writer/producer Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Hell or High Water.) [more inside]
Grey's Anatomy: Season 21 (Full Season) Season 21 (Full Season)
The sun hangs low in a hazy sky, casting a sickly yellow light over a desolate landscape. Rusting remnants of civilization jut from the cracked earth—twisted metal and crumbling concrete, draped in a tangle of ashen vines. In the distance, skeletal towers loomed like silent sentinels, their once-shining windows now shattered and blackened. The air is thick with an acrid tang, a reminder of the cataclysm that has scorched the world, and faint echoes of distant winds carried whispers of lost lives.
"Well," Jaxon said to his three-eyed dog Loco, "At least there's a new season of Grey's Anatomy."
Movie: Triangle
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas. [more inside]
Book: The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates structures this set of essays as letters to his students on the purpose of writing, and grappling with questions on how reporting and narratives are structured, define and distort reality.
Coates' bibliography for the Israel/Palestine essay. [more inside]
Doctor Odyssey: Singles Week Season 1, Episode 2
It's Singles Week on The Odyssey. As Max, Tristan and Avery navigate their relationship, the crew fends off advances from passengers. With rising desire and quickly spreading ailments, Max and the team rush to restore order.
Movie: Romeo + Juliet
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains. [more inside]
Only Murders in the Building: Blow-Up Season 4, Episode 6
The Brothers Sisters are in focus this time, or rather, are doing the focusing, because the episode is structured as a documentary made by them about being suspected of murder by our podcasting sleuths. [more inside]
Movie: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life. [more inside]
Slow Horses: Grave Danger Show Only Season 4, Episode 5
Lamb questions David about France as River comes face to face with the enemy. [more inside]
Movie: Fear Street Part One: 1994
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations are connected. [more inside]
Special Event: US VP Debate 2024: Battle of the Dads
Stargate SG-1: The Torment of Tantalus Rewatch Season 1, Episode 10
While looking through documentaries made in the period after the Second World War, Daniel made a discovery. According to the records, a young scientist managed to pass through the Stargate. [more inside]
Movie: The Substance
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. [more inside]
Movie: Hush
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home. Co-written by Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) and Kate Siegel (who plays Theo on THoHH). Directed by Flanagan and starring Siegel. [more inside]
Movie: The Hitcher
While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), who claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. But when he witnesses the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, Jim pursues Ryder with the help of truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), pitting the rivals against each other in a deadly series of car chases and brutal murders. [more inside]
The Great British Bake Off: Cake Week Season 15, Episode 1
Whose cake fakery will take them to new heights and earn them the first Star Baker award?
Movie: Speak No Evil
[TRAILER] When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare. A remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name, from the director of Eden Lake and starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Alix West Lefler, and Aisling Franciosi. [more inside]
Movie: Brimstone and Treacle
Despair hangs heavy over the house of the Bates family. Young Pattie (Suzanna Hamilton) twitches and groans her days away in bed, the victim of a terrible auto accident years ago, while her poor old mum Norma (Joan Plowright) struggles to attend to the afflicted girl's needs and the sour patriarch of the house (Denholm Elliot) prowls the halls muttering about God ("He's a vicious old bugger!"). One day things are shaken up by the arrival of Martin, (Sting) a charming young rogue of mysterious and possibly mystical origins... [more inside]
Agatha All Along: Circle Sewn With Fate / Unlock Thy Hidden Gate Season 1, Episode 2
With old foes in hot pursuit, Agatha and Teen gather a desperate coven to walk The Witches’ Road.
Agatha All Along: Seekest Thou the Road Season 1, Episode 1
In small town Westview, Detective Agnes’ murder case sends her down a road that changes everything. [more inside]