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December 28, 2024

ZEF: The Story of Die Antwoord

The story of the controversial South African band Die Antwoord. Tracing them from their humble beginnings to global phenomenon. Like their music the documentary is shocking, provocative, highly creative and strangely funny. [more inside]
posted by ginger.beef at 8:17 AM - 5 comments

December 27, 2024

The Kindred

[TRAILER] John's mother asked him on her deathbed to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:02 PM - 2 comments

December 26, 2024

A Complete Unknown

A 20-year-old Bob Dylan comes to New York, meets interesting people, starts his career, is a jerk, writes good songs, has to decide if he's going to stick with the traditional folk music or play an electric guitar at a big folk festival, gets advice from Johnny Cash, smokes a lot of cigarettes, rides his motorcycle, looks cool.
posted by The corpse in the library at 5:52 PM - 23 comments

Nosferatu

[TRAILER] A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Lily Rose Depp) and the terrifying vampire (Bill Skarsgård) infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:28 AM - 11 comments

December 25, 2024

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Gromit's concerned that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions, which proves justified when Wallace invents a "smart gnome" that seems to develop a mind of its own.
posted by fight or flight at 11:09 AM - 4 comments

December 24, 2024

Carnage for Christmas

[TRAILER] When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola (Jeremy Moineau) visits her hometown at Christmas for the first time since running away and transitioning, the vengeful ghost of a historical murderer and urban legend seemingly arises to kill again. The fifth feature film from 20 year-old filmmaker Australian filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:24 AM - 2 comments

Your Lucky Day

When a dispute over a winning lottery ticket turns deadly, the witnesses must decide exactly how far they're willing to go and how much blood they're willing to spill for a cut of $156 million. [more inside]
posted by box at 8:38 AM - 0 comments

Anthony Jeselnik: Bones and All

Anthony Jeselnik celebrates 20 years of delivering boundary-pushing comedy to the masses.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:05 AM - 5 comments

Good One

In India Donaldson’s minimalist debut feature Good One, a middle-aged father, his perceptive 17-yo daughter, and another mess of a divorced buddy of his are going on a camping trip in the Catskills. That’s it, that's the whole simple plot. But it’s told with the maturity and eye-for-details of somebody who had intimately known and observed all three. [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 1:34 AM - 3 comments

December 23, 2024

Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad

Two kittens go on a metaphysical journey on a magical railroad train. [more inside]
posted by bunderful at 7:03 PM - 4 comments

It came from outer space

It Came from Outer Space tells the story of an amateur astronomer and his fiancée who are stargazing in the desert when a large fiery object crashes to Earth. At the crash site, he discovers a round alien spaceship just before it is completely buried by a landslide. (Wikipedia) [more inside]
posted by bunderful at 5:58 PM - 1 comment

Flow

An animated, dialogue-free film following a solitary cat whose home is devastated by a great flood, and who must find its way in an unfamiliar world... [more inside]
posted by nightcoast at 5:15 PM - 6 comments

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

[TRAILER] In a desperate attempt to reach his ill wife, organist Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) is horrifically disfigured in a car accident and presumed dead. When he learns that his wife died during an operation, Phibes blames her surgeons and plots an elaborate revenge to punish them for their incompetence. With the help of a mute assistant (Virginia North), Phibes creates a mask resembling his own face and murders the surgeons one by one using bizarre methods inspired by the biblical plagues. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:39 PM - 9 comments

The Room Next Door

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Stars Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro. [more inside]
posted by signal at 8:17 AM - 2 comments

December 22, 2024

Happiness

[TRAILER] This dark ensemble-comedy is centered on the three Jordan sisters. Joy (Jane Adams) moves through lackluster jobs with no sense of purpose. Now employed teaching adults, she is dating a student, Russian taxi-driver Vlad (Jared Harris). Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is an esteemed poet who becomes amused by her perverted neighbor, Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman). And eldest sister Trish (Cynthia Stevenson) is married to Bill (Dylan Baker), a psychiatrist with a very disturbing secret life. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:11 PM - 16 comments

December 21, 2024

Cop Au Vin

[TRAILER] In a small French town, a bitter, demanding disabled mother (Stéphane Audran) and her dutiful, oppressed son (Lucas Belvaux) are pressured to sell their land for a shady development deal, and decide to fight back. When one of the scheme's sponsors ends up dead in a most unusual way, the skilled and determined Inspector Lavardin (Jean Poiret) arrives to uncover and clean up the mystery. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:04 PM - 5 comments

Sea of Love

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
posted by bunderful at 6:33 PM - 4 comments

The Legend of Hillbilly John

A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar in a series of interlocking stories based on/inspired by the writings of Manly Wade Wellman. Originally titled Who Fears the Devil. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:40 PM - 8 comments

December 20, 2024

Crazy People

[TRAILER] When his "honest" ads lead his coworkers to question his mental health, advertising executive Emory Leeson (Dudley Moore) is sent to a mental hospital. There he befriends Dr. Liz Baylor (Mercedes Ruehl) and develops a crush on fellow patient Kathy Burgess (Daryl Hannah). Eventually, it becomes clear that the work Emory was doing before he was hospitalized wasn't crazy after all, but the business world now interests him less than his new relationships. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:37 PM - 8 comments

Village of the Damned

[TRAILER] Ten months after the small California town of Midwich was struck by a mysterious event during which everyone in the village fell unconscious at once, 10 local women give birth on the same day. As the unsettlingly calm and unemotional children grow at an abnormally fast rate, it becomes clear that they can read adults' minds and force people to harm themselves. Local doctor Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeve) and federal agent Susan Verner (Kirstie Alley) must team up to battle the alien children. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:23 PM - 3 comments

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