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A drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
posted by haplesschild to FanFare on Apr 22 at 1:45 PM
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[TRAILER] Frustrated housewife Francine Fishpaw (Divine) tries to maintain her sanity while taking care of her dysfunctional household. Her husband, the owner of an adult theater, is sleeping with his secretary (Mink Stole), and her delinquent teen son, Dexter, and pregnant teen daughter, Lulu, aren't helping matters any. But when Francine meets dashing Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), the owner of a theater specializing in art films, her life appears rosier.
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Apr 25 at 3:55 PM
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Two hundred years have passed since the beginning of the apocalypse. Leaving the atomic shelter that protected them will pave the way to an unknown world that will unleash a war for survival.
posted by Pong74LS to FanFare on Apr 21 at 4:49 AM
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It's the UK, but not as we know it: civilisation has rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years before. Society is now colour-based, the strict levels of hierarchy dictated by the colours you can see, and the economy, health service and citizen's aspirations all dominated by visual colour, run by the shadowy National Colour in far-off Emerald City.
posted by Literaryhero to FanFare on Apr 23 at 5:56 AM
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[TRAILER] Just north of London live Wendy (Alison Steadman), Andy (Jim Broadbent), and their twenty-something twins, Natalie (Calire Skinner) and Nicola (Jane Horrocks).Andy attempts to fix up a food truck for a new business. Wendy tires to help family friend Aubrey (Timothy Spall) open a new restaurant. Cranky, on-the-dole Nicola butts heads with her hard-working sister Natalie and her wary lover (David Thewlis).
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Apr 22 at 7:44 AM
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Every generation has their own dumbass ideas.
posted by Pong74LS to FanFare on Apr 21 at 4:42 AM
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A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
posted by Carillon to FanFare on Apr 24 at 12:56 PM
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A quick-witted and courageous young woman framed for murder unexpectedly becomes the most notorious outlaw in 18th-century England. When a magical spirit called Billy appears, Nell realizes her destiny is bigger than she ever imagined.
posted by TheophileEscargot to FanFare on Apr 19 at 1:20 AM
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I know life can't have been easy up here.
posted by drewbage1847 to FanFare on Apr 12 at 9:46 PM
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Storm is forced to face her worst fears in order to free herself. Meanwhile, Charles is forced to make nice with his future in-laws.
posted by 1970s Antihero to FanFare on Apr 18 at 2:53 PM
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At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
posted by Carillon to FanFare on Apr 26 at 6:16 PM
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Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay – and that she's pregnant.
posted by bunderful to FanFare on Apr 19 at 4:12 PM
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Unblinking and unsettling, this documentary lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all around us - what happens to people who die with no next of kin.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon to FanFare on Apr 21 at 3:08 PM
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This Netflix series follows Donny (Richard Gadd) on a downward spiral, as he meets a lonely woman named Martha (Jessica Gunning) who morphs from friend to stalker. Donny attempts to escape the grip of Martha's obsession, while trying to navigate the lingering effects of past trauma.
posted by dianeF to FanFare on Apr 23 at 5:45 AM
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Coachella's 6 stages are streaming on YouTube (most countries?). Let's watch some live music.
posted by fiercekitten to FanFare on Apr 12 at 9:29 PM
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Victoria wakes up and cannot remember anything about her life. Everyone she encounters refuses to communicate with her.
posted by oh yeah! to FanFare on Dec 25, 2014 at 7:36 AM
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It's a clip show! (It's not really a clip show) Moll and L'ak's new delaying tactic has Discovery jumping around in time, and it's up to Michael, Rayner, and Stamets to put things right without changing the past.
posted by hanov3r to FanFare on Apr 18 at 12:31 PM
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The Wasteland's got its own Golden Rule.
posted by drewbage1847 to FanFare on Apr 14 at 7:33 PM
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After some observation, Chilchuck has figured out a pattern to the shifting of the floor's configuration, leading Team Touden to the exit - and to Teams Kabru and Shuro. However, the reunion between allies may not be a happy one when Shuro finds out what happened with Falin...
posted by NoxAeternum to FanFare on Apr 19 at 1:16 AM
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A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
posted by Carillon to FanFare on Oct 1, 2022 at 12:29 AM
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Thorzdad, I think the clue is in the episode title. The vision of Anjin in his old age is a dream of the man marooned in Japan: a dream of returning to riches, glory, family and a prestigious life in England after defeating the Portuguese. That dream, the culmination of his original ambition, is completely abandoned during his showdown with... [more]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul to FanFare on Apr 23 at 6:08 PM
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This came on HBO one afternoon and midway through I got off my dad's armchair and packed my things and moved out. Just couldn't take how I was wasting my time watching it, just watching anything that was on. My family was friends with a family who owned a video store, I'd watched endless stacks of films in the vhs era. But this was so bad that I... [more]
posted by Catblack to FanFare on Apr 23 at 12:57 PM
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Hey! We made it to the end of the series! And hey! My terrible boy Buntaro is still with us! So if you look back on my comments in previous threads you’ll notice I'm just a little bit obsessed with Buntaro. He's not my crush or anything (Yabushige heart eyes forever) but he does live rent-free in my head because the moment he drew his... [more]
posted by Parasite Unseen to FanFare on Apr 24 at 9:46 AM
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I once saw an interview with Stewart where someone asked him how he conveyed such sincerity. He said he learned a trick while working on Destry Rides Again. Marlene Dietrich told him that the secret to seeming sincere on film is: when you are interacting with someone, pick one eye and focus on that. Normal people look someone in the... [more]
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Apr 23 at 10:39 AM
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Reno's "Are you stuck in a time loop, Stamets?" was such a perfect and perfectly delivered line I wish they'd run with it instead of backing off and making like it was a joke. [view]
posted by Pryde to FanFare on Apr 19 at 9:37 PM
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OK, I feel like if I leave it at that, it's sour in a way I don't want to be. So what I will say about this film is that it is not at all about the before or the how or the why of a civil war in the US; it is about the during. It is about making that chaos and violence a hell of a lot less abstract for Americans. It's about the... [more]
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Apr 17 at 8:56 AM
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This really snuck up on me. It's enjoyable enough throughout its runtime, even as Horrocks' Nicola is, at first blush, a bit shrill and Spall's Aubrey can be cringe-inducing. By the end, though, it really pulls it all together, and you realize you've been watching a fairly layered rumination on what dreams mean for working people. Each of the... [more]
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Apr 22 at 8:06 AM
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"We can get into a *good* vault" says a whole lot about what info Barb is privy to. [view]
posted by rmd1023 to FanFare on Apr 21 at 10:16 AM
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I got curious about why Kidder played such a reduced role in this film, and it sounds like she was being punished for speaking out in support of Richard Donner during the famously troubled production one Superman and Superman 2. I read her Wikipedia page, and it's quite a journey. She seems like a complicated, endearing, outspoken... [more]
posted by Ursula Hitler to FanFare on Apr 24 at 9:23 PM
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I will admit that I had a "Say the phrase, Bart"-meme celebration when Barb finally gave us the "War... War never changes" I had been craving since the first episode. [view]
posted by Parasite Unseen to FanFare on Apr 22 at 5:55 PM
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> 3 got middling reviews and what I've seen does look not great, but I've gotta figure it's still quite a bit better than this film 3 is kind of like what if the Zucker brothers directed a superman movie, only cheaper and with worse special effects. It's the one where Superman becomes a jerk and grows a beard, and tears open an oil tanker... [more]
posted by dis_integration to FanFare on Apr 23 at 7:29 PM
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It felt very wrong to me that Lucy didn't do more scavenging of the Super Duper Mart at the end. Also that the Ghoul seemed like he was just going to load up his hat with drugs when he could have just taken that whole case. Aren't they going to regret not having this stuff later? Why yes I do have trouble with inventory management whenever I'm... [more]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm to FanFare on Apr 19 at 11:43 AM
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I have yet to regret a single moment spent with Mike Leigh and I deeply appreciate the actors who have worked with him across multiple projects, Timothy Spall stands out but Broadbent and Thewlis.. loving it. And Steadman and Horrocks?? I have seen this film but it has been so long that watching it again would be its own reward. [view]
posted by elkevelvet to FanFare on Apr 22 at 11:54 AM
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‘Fallout’ Renewed For Season 2 At Amazon (Deadline Hollywood Article). [view]
posted by Pong74LS to FanFare on Apr 21 at 4:57 AM
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Oh, no, we absolutely need to have David Oyelowo show up and blow the racists' minds. (For those who didn't watch Rebels: British/Nigerian actor David Oyelowo voiced ISB Agent Kallus.) [view]
posted by suelac to FanFare on Apr 20 at 5:25 PM
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my question after this episode was how did Moldaver stay young? the cryo tubes presumably but where? [view]
posted by kokaku to FanFare on Apr 21 at 11:17 AM
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i've been rewatching the Supermen a la Reeves lately and they're all so delightfully terrible. This one however is not that bad, compared to Superman 3, which is an absolutely bonkers romp (richard pryor, computer hacker!, robert vaughn, evil business tycoon!). This one however does bring up an important question, which is why superman doesn't just... [more]
posted by dis_integration to FanFare on Apr 23 at 4:12 PM
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Raise your hand if you want the next film to be Zillo: A Star Wars Story. [view]
posted by orrnyereg to FanFare on Apr 25 at 12:19 PM
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I still have the scratch’n’sniff card. [view]
posted by chococat to FanFare on Apr 25 at 9:59 PM
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Can we not do the "I really don't understand racism" bullshit tapdance in here? [view]
posted by anansi to FanFare on Apr 21 at 2:37 AM
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