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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: The Journey's End
The world celebrates the Demon King's defeat at the hands of the Hero and his companions. Now that their great adventure is over, what will Frieren the mage do next?
Movie: The Andromeda Strain
[TRAILER] Virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Movie: Dune: Part Two
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
Movie: Richard III
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension, among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
Movie: Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman (1969)
A young blind girl is abandoned by her mother. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling Ronin. She travels to seek her mother and her revenge.
Abbott Elementary: Librarian
"Our new librarian is very....organized."
Movie: Much Ado About Nothing
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
Was the January Pick for my Shakespeare Movie Club.
FEUD: It's Impossible
Babe makes peace with a harsh reality. Truman makes an effort to get sober.
Special Event: Special Event: March Madness! NCAA basketball tournaments 2024
March, March, it's March again, how does this keep happening.
LSU is the defending Women's D1 Winner, and UConn is the defending men's champion (and UConn has quite possibly the cutest mascot in basketball in Jonathan the Husky).
Movie: Le Silence de la mer
[TRAILER] A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece; their response to his presence—their only form of resistance—is complete silence. AKA The Silence of the Sea.
Movie: Love Lies Bleeding
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou's criminal family.
Movie: Dream Scenario
A hapless family man finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.
Extraordinary: Extraordinary Season 2
Extraordinary, the delightful British superhero share-house sit-com is back with Season Two.
Movie: Ishtar
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Shogun: Tomorrow Is Tomorrow
After Blackthorne survives a brazen assassination attempt, Toranaga realizes he must ferry his allies out of Osaka or risk certain defeat.
Movie: Kinetta
[TRAILER] During off-season at a Greek seaside resort, three strangers—a police officer out of uniform with a thing for German luxury cars and Russian women, an eccentric photographer, and a hotel chambermaid—join forces for a rather strange reason: to recreate homicides. Meticulously and with an almost ritualistic approach, the unlikely trio reenact crime scenes of brutal murders, to the point where the boundaries of their own private lives slowly begin to blur. The first feature film by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things).
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: The Phantom at 10,000 Leagues
A radioactive monster wreaks havoc; for some reason the heroic scientist has to develop a relationship while saving lives from it; also, the monster's maker has to perish in his attempt to stop his creation. All these things the way they have to be in 50's monster movie world. (Riff from 2024, earlier this week)
One Piece: Romance Dawn
A Netflix live-action adaptation of the world's best-selling manga. Monkey D. Luffy sets out on his quest to find the One Piece and become the king of the pirates. Will this be a powerhouse like the anime or another poorly executed adaptation that should never have been made? Tune in to find out.
Movie: The Boondock Saints
Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.
Book: Three Bags Full
In Leonie Swann's Three Bags Full, "[t]he mysterious death of their shepherd has sent a flock of sheep into a frenzy trying to piece together “whodunit.” Overcoming their “sheepish” ways, the members of the flock realize that they may be the only ones who can solve it" (Publishers Weekly).
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I hope Emma Stone is proud of herself for winning over an indigenous actress.
oh good lord [view]
posted by EmpressCallipygos to FanFare on Mar 11 at 3:53 AM
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Shohreh Aghdashloo
Okay now I'm interested. [view]
posted by whuppy to FanFare on Mar 11 at 8:10 AM
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This is enjoyable in a popcorn movie of its era kind of way. Think of it as the less hammy, more science-y end of the disaster movie genre.
Some laugh out loud day for night shots in the opening (until a character says it's night you'd have never guessed they hoped ot get away with that), but otherwise, it looks great.
The... [more]
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Mar 18 at 9:40 AM
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I came to this film by word of mouth. Willem Dafoe throws himself into his role, which I think is 90% of what makes the film work. [view]
posted by SPrintF to FanFare on Mar 17 at 2:09 PM
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Don't know that I'm gonna see this one. But. It reminded me of a short story I read a long time ago in a horror anthology. I just found it and reread it and it still makes me shiver. Quick read, strong recommend.
Thus I Refute Beelzy (John Collier) (pdf link) [view]
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model to FanFare on Mar 12 at 2:31 PM
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posted by Pickman's Next Top Model to FanFare on Mar 12 at 2:31 PM
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I am a major Timmy stan, but this pithy review from an acquaintance still made me bust out laughing on a crowded bus home this evening:
"no special effects budget, no matter how large, can hide the truth that Timothée Chalamet runs like a dork. Chasing a giant sand worm on Arrakis? He still looks like he’s running late to his postmodernism... [more]
posted by EmpressCallipygos to FanFare on Mar 1 at 8:00 PM
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> If you like black and white Macbeths, the 2021 Cohen brother version is also wonderful.
Quick note: the 2021 Macbeth is by Joel Coen. Joel Cohen wrote Garfield: The Movie. [view]
posted by haileris23 to FanFare on Mar 11 at 7:53 PM
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This is exactly what Harry is talking about - the British press takes something they say/do, pull it out of context, amplify it, and then everyone remembers the "sCanDaL" not the truth. Meghan never said anything about the legality of the ceremony, just that they said their vows in front of the Archbishop three days before. They also... [more]
posted by Preserver to FanFare on Jan 11, 2023 at 4:03 PM
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The next two books in the series were much easier to get through, but I stopped there
Jealous.
Anyway, saw it, and it was everything I hoped for. Kinda wonder how they’ll handle Chani if there’s a sequel, but I found her ending more satisfying than “history will call us wives.”
Vastly prefer how much darker Jessica’s... [more]
posted by Ryvar to FanFare on Mar 15 at 7:47 PM
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New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates the séance and learns that the priest’s suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell and must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Yes, when I was a journalist, this is pretty much what we did all day. Investigate priestly suicides, discover portals to hell,... [more]
posted by Naberius to FanFare on Mar 12 at 8:31 AM
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Ctrl+F "Candide" zero results
Ctrl+F "bildungsroman" zero results
Huh. I seem to have had a different experience watching this. [view]
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Jan 23 at 7:01 AM
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You'll never guess what General Blessington looks like today. [view]
posted by phunniemee to FanFare on Mar 12 at 12:52 PM
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From Donald Miller's book:
It was the interrogators’ immense amount of information about American Air Force operations that was their most effective tool in extracting information. In intelligence briefings back in England, airmen had been warned about what to expect, but the “apparent omniscience” of their captors unnerved more than a few of... [more]
posted by elgilito to FanFare on Mar 8 at 5:38 PM
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but also, and this cannot be stressed highly enough, it is good to kill bad people, particularly people as bad as the bad person she put a goat's brain into. but also: the goat didn't do anything wrong and now it's stuck in a dude because it's funny. but also, is bella good? should bella be good? nah.
The problem isn't that a bad... [more]
posted by Atreides to FanFare on Mar 13 at 8:57 AM
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The absolute madness of having some hidden cannons firing *on their own position* was a great end to this episode. I knew the son was going to do something crazy, but I didn't expect that!
What was the stinky food Blackthorne was eating with the ladies? [view]
posted by ssmith to FanFare on Mar 12 at 3:50 PM
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time...
I hate Mondays! [view]
posted by Saxon Kane to FanFare on Mar 12 at 9:24 AM
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Oh man. Oh man, I have so many thoughts about this movie. I really liked it -- not every second was perfect, but the overall thing was amazing. I felt like Villeneuve deeply understood the book, and performed a real act of adaptation -- sharpening the message of the original work, making it filmic, and letting us see his perspective on the story.... [more]
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Consider too that Homeless Joe Clone from Kenobi looked right at one of the most famous Jedi from the war and didn't immediately Reggie-Jackson-in-Naked-Gun out on him
And that particularly clone was from the 501st, Anakin's battalion, so he absolutely should have recognized Kenobi. Even if the holonet has been purged and the... [more]
posted by suelac to FanFare on Mar 14 at 12:54 PM
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To be fair, Bill Murray gets those confused too, which supposedly is how he ended up agreeing to Garfield. [view]
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Mar 12 at 8:03 AM
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The princess did not skip arm day. Pegboarding up the slope with the knife and again up the crystals and then again on the slope after the jump. She would dominate any of the Ninja Warrior type shows.
I’m glad the super healing goo worked so well and so quickly (and that the uncharismatic megafauna didn’t die). Perhaps she could figure how to... [more]
posted by autopilot to FanFare on Mar 13 at 4:06 PM
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