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Mary has a passion for fashion and nightlife, but when she gets arrested for throwing an illegal rave she turns to her aunt for bail Money. Aunt Judy arranges for Mary to work at the library, but can a party girl adjust to this highly organized environment? [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 1, 2023 - 9 comments

Rewatch! One of a dwindling number to go at this point. It's one of those sci-fi movies whose grand vision of the future is largely today but like with multinational consortiums and giant robots. There's even a major location that's just a normal town circa the movie's making, passed off as a preserved ghost town and tourist location. Warning, there's an appallingly misogynistic character who's intended by the movie to be seen as a lovable scamp. Feh, meh, pleh, bleah. Previously. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on May 17, 2023 - 0 comments

A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum. [more inside]
posted by skycrashesdown on Mar 18, 2023 - 7 comments

"Crank Up the Carnage." While it looks kind of like the thing The Asylum would make now, this movie in fact was made back in 1993, and has some decent stop motion robot effects. The movie is similar in many ways to Robot Jox, from the same director, but their stories are unconnected. In the future the world has been divided into two factions, the "North Hemi" and the "Eastern Alliance." A war was fought between giant robots, but now only one is left, and it's currently being used as passenger transport and tourism. There follows a plot involving "Centros," perfidious Eastern Alliance military leaders, and of course at the end a giant robot fight. It's a real mess. In MST3K's story, Kinga and Max's damaged Kingadome has been saved by a financier from the future named Dr. Cabal, who tells them, for their venture to be a success, they must find a second host to subject bad movies to.... Premiered Friday early to Kickstarter backers, it is not currently possible to watch officially; its official premiere will be on May 7. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Apr 5, 2022 - 9 comments

Lisa N. Nova (Rosa Salazar) comes to LA dead set on directing her first movie. But when she trusts the wrong person and gets stabbed in the back, everything goes sideways and a dream project turns into a nightmare. This particular nightmare has zombies, hit men, supernatural kittens, and a mysterious tattoo artist (Catherine Keener) who likes to put curses on people. And Lisa’s going to have to figure out some secrets from her own past in order to get out alive. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 16, 2021 - 14 comments

Set in 1990, David is a home caregiver for his mother with dementia who thinks he is his dead brother. Isolated from others, he turns to video dating for companionship. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 28, 2021 - 1 comment

In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations are connected. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jul 2, 2021 - 10 comments

César and Cannes winning fictionalized account of ACT UP Paris and AIDS and AIDS activism in the 90s. [more inside]
posted by latkes on Jun 18, 2021 - 1 comment

In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Mar 18, 2021 - 4 comments

A black young woman is pressured to change her hair when she gets a new boss at her job at a cable channel. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 31, 2020 - 3 comments

When Tonya falls for the new boy at school, Charles Brady, she discovers he and his mother have a deadly secret. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Dec 2, 2019 - 7 comments

Liv is on 90's pageant contestant brain while trying to help Martin get clean. Ravi and Peyton closes in on Beanpole Bob's identity. Major is still trying to find Sloane Mills. [more inside]
posted by numaner on Jul 1, 2019 - 4 comments

Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
posted by Fizz on Dec 21, 2018 - 5 comments

A coming-of-age story, set in the 1990s, that revolves around the A/V and drama clubs at a Boring, Ore., high school; the two crews of outsiders join forces to make a movie and endure the purgatory that is high school. Think Freaks & Geeks, but a bit more diverse. Most critics aren't particularly fond of this show, and they are wrong. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Feb 19, 2018 - 13 comments

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
posted by ellieBOA on Nov 1, 2017 - 1 comment

Everyone is terrible.
posted by lmfsilva on Oct 8, 2017 - 5 comments

Bos interrupts Cameron's frantic coding session for something very important. Gordon spends the day making increasingly larger repairs at Comet. Donna takes some time off for "R&R". Joe argues about the future of Comet and goes to an unlikely source for clarity.
posted by lmfsilva on Oct 1, 2017 - 9 comments

Joe tries to find a brand for Comet. Donna has a tough decision to ensure the future and success of Rover.
posted by lmfsilva on Sep 24, 2017 - 13 comments

Donna feels something is fishy with the sudden Rover breakthroughs and puts Boz and the team on the spot. Gordon watches Sneakers for the nth time with a special someone. Cameron gets an unexpected visit in the Airstream. Joe tries to make sense of things.
posted by lmfsilva on Sep 17, 2017 - 6 comments

Joe cuts his hair and brainstorms with Gordon the next step for Comet as they deal with the internet's growth. Cameron has a number of small accidents that changes her life. Rover's team struggles with differences, until Donna steps in and Boz gets some help from an old friend.
posted by lmfsilva on Sep 11, 2017 - 9 comments

Gordon gives Joe an eerily prescient lecture about train safety and Joe one to Cameron about tidyness. As CalNect is faced with no room to grow and losing theirs to AOL, Joe and Gordon sell and make their next move, and have a first taste of what the internet is about to become. Cameron gets bad news from Atari and the gaming industry in general. Donna struggles with a casual dinner and the development (and implications) of their web-crawler.
posted by lmfsilva on Aug 28, 2017 - 8 comments

Gordon and Joe fight for their place in the internet. Donna rules hers. Cameron designs a new adventure game in the age of Mortal Kombat. [two episode premiere]
posted by lmfsilva on Aug 21, 2017 - 13 comments

It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
posted by ellieBOA on Apr 2, 2016 - 1 comment

One of electronic music's true daddies steps up. For Squarepusher's FACT mix, he looks way back, at the rave music from the turn of the 1990s that inspired not only him, but many of his contemporaries. This is Squarepusher presents Shut Up And Dance, 1990-1992, and it's rude as fuck. [more inside]
posted by Going To Maine on May 15, 2015 - 1 comment

The authorized documentary on late Guitar/lead singer Kurt Cobain from his early days in Aberdeen Washington to his success and downfall with Grunge band Nirvana. Official site/HBO PAGE. [more inside]
posted by Artw on May 10, 2015 - 7 comments

Is there any interest in a ST:DS9 rewatch? If so, what post frequency might work for everyone? [more inside]
posted by zarq on Apr 16, 2015 - 46 comments

The Spirit Of 99! 1999 was a supernaturally good year for movie releases and now the majority of them are easily available on streaming apps and sundry. Why not watch two smaller 1999 movies a week and see what, if any The Spirit Of 99 was? Suggestions to follow- [more inside]
posted by The Whelk on Sep 15, 2014 - 66 comments