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[TRAIILER] In Czech director Jan Švankmajer's surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice (Kristýna Kohoutová) follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland. While the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat are still present, the familiar magical world and bizarre characters have undergone an unsettling transformation in the director's vision through the stop-motion animation of dead animals, puppets and other assorted objects. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 3, 2024 - 8 comments

After a fascist cheese-based regime seizes control of Switzerland, Heidi must escape prison and learn the ways of combat to save the motherland and prevent a tainted cheese apocalypse. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 21, 2023 - 12 comments

A screwball comedy about a 20-something New Zealand woman living in Hackney, London, working jobs in a cinema and as a nanny. After a one-night stand on New Year's Eve, she discovers she slept with a famous movie star. [more inside]
posted by BlahLaLa on Mar 24, 2022 - 5 comments

Greg Davies is the Taskmaster. "Little" Alex Horne is the Taskmaster's assistant. Alice Levine, Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck, Russell Howard and Tim Vine are the contestants. Episodes are available on YouTube in the USA, and on the Channel 4 website in the UK. [more inside]
posted by Huffy Puffy on Apr 3, 2021 - 16 comments

The original '70s T.V. family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever. [more inside]
posted by rhizome on Jul 26, 2018 - 14 comments

We all float down here, Harry!--uh, wait [shuffles index cards] all work and no play makes Kathryn a dull girl--no, that's not right [shuffles them some more] the man in black fled across the quadrant, and the starship followed--damnit [starts looking through them one by one] ah, here we go... [looks up] do we have a "Larry Gene Blanton" here? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 5, 2018 - 6 comments

Society and the world as we know it has collapsed. A small band of humans must now contend with a massive, automatic factory that continuously produces products while using up what little resources are left. [more inside]
posted by numaner on Jan 11, 2018 - 7 comments

Did I know from the first time I saw you Alice? It feels like I did. [more inside]
posted by jazon on Aug 8, 2017 - 3 comments

Season finale. The end of one search, and the start of another.
posted by Etrigan on Jul 12, 2016 - 4 comments