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Movie: Happy End

[TRAILER] A man's life story is shown backwards, even as he narrates it as though it is forwards. He recounts his birth from a guillotine, being raised in a prison, etc. Events occur backwards, people are born from death, conversations proceed in reverse order, variously resulting in sheer situational comedy or dadaist nonsense. A dark comedy about crime and consequences from the Czech New Wave. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 14, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Sheryl

Working for a beauty site, it's natural that Sheryl is obsessed with beauty. What is unnatural is the lengths she's willing to go to achieve it. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 16, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Walden

Walden Dean is a stenographer, a ghost in the courtroom, recording everything said without judgement. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Feb 17, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: The Pope of Greenwich Village

(Trailer) Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department. [more inside]
posted by Marky on Feb 11, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Sitcom

TW: Suicide attempt themes

An upper-class suburban family suddenly comes apart when the father brings a lab rat home from works. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 18, 2023 - 9 comments

Movie: Villains

[TRAILER] When their car breaks down, a couple on the run (Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe) headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners (Kyra Sedgwick, Jeffrey Donovan) who will do anything to keep it from getting out. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 8, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Kind Hearts and Coronets

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. [more inside]
posted by Marky on Oct 15, 2022 - 6 comments

Movie: Sissy

Cecilia and Emma were tween-age BFFs who were going to grow old together and never let anything come between them, until Alex arrived on the scene. Twelve years later, Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream of an independent, modern millennial woman... until she runs into Emma for the first time in over a decade. Emma invites Cecilia away on her bachelorette weekend at a remote cabin in the mountains, where Alex proceeds to make Cecilia's weekend a living hell. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 5, 2022 - 5 comments

Movie: Stanleyville

Maria Barzan leaves her entire life behind when she is offered the chance to participate in a competition that will reveal her true self. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 11, 2021 - 1 comment

Book: Big Girl, Small Town

A young working-class woman named Majella navigates a constrained life in Northern Ireland sometime after "peace broke out" in Ireland in the nineties. Some things distinguish her from her fellows: she's not social at all, she's unusually sensitive to sensory input, and her grandmother was just murdered. [more inside]
posted by Sheydem-tants on Feb 21, 2021 - 1 comment

Movie: Why don't you just die!

When Olya asks her boyfriend, Matvei, to kill her father, things go horribly wrong. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 13, 2020 - 1 comment

Movie: Bernie

In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jun 12, 2020 - 3 comments

The Boys: Season 1 discussion  Show Only   Season 1, Ep 0

Supes have been committing atrocities, which keep getting swept under the rug because they are revered by the adoring public. Billy Butcher recruits The Boys who have all been wronged by The Seven, the world’s most notorious superheroes, to bring them down and stop the corruption. [more inside]
posted by KTamas on Jul 29, 2019 - 70 comments

Movie: The Art of Self-Defense

Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
posted by julthumbscrew on Jul 20, 2019 - 4 comments

Movie: Inside Llewyn Davis

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Sep 11, 2018 - 10 comments

Movie: Yojimbo

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jun 18, 2018 - 4 comments

Movie: MASH

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on May 29, 2018 - 11 comments

Movie: Fargo

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 26, 2018 - 25 comments

Movie: Throw Momma from the Train

In his directorial debut, Danny DeVito plays Owen, the put-upon momma's boy who enlists his writing teacher (Billy Crystal) in a Strangers on a Train-style murder scheme. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jan 8, 2018 - 14 comments

Movie: In the Loop

A political black satire, sharp and very funny, about a group of American and British communication operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries. Stars extremely profane Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker, David Rasche as Linton Barwick, US Assistant Secretary of State for Policy, general James Gandolfini and Zach Woods as Chad. Directed by Armando Iannucci. The film is a spin-off from the currently relevant BBC Television series The Thick of it. Wikipedia.
posted by growabrain on Jul 28, 2017 - 17 comments

Spotless: Carrot & Stick  Season 1, Ep 2

Mr. Clay puts his new "unique resource" to the test. Martin makes new friends in the neighborhood, but his van is impounded anyway. Julie interviews for a position at a gallery while Maddie snoops through Martin's things. Jean's Chief Inspector friend in the Met turns out to be not so friendly after all.
posted by infinitewindow on Feb 20, 2017 - 0 comments

Spotless: One Hand Clapping  Season 1, Ep 1

Jean Bastière lives a quiet if unfaithful life in London, mounting up debts against his family's home as his crime-scene cleaning business steadily loses money. Then his long-estranged ne'er-do-well brother Martin visits from across the Channel, with several kilograms of drugs he needs to retrieve from an unconventional container.
posted by infinitewindow on Feb 19, 2017 - 2 comments

Movie: You Kill Me

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man (Ben Kingsley) befriends a tart-tongued woman (Téa Leoni) who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores. [more inside]
posted by ubiquity on May 1, 2016 - 1 comment

Movie: Heathers

In order to get out of the snobby clique that is destroying her good-girl reputation, an intelligent teen teams up with a dark sociopath in a plot to kill the cool kids. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 8, 2016 - 23 comments

Movie: The Cable Guy

A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend. His target, rejects him, with bad consequences, but not before creepy karaoke, awkward family game nights, and other hijinks ensue. Relatively early appearances of Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Bob Odenkirk, among others. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 19, 2016 - 7 comments

Movie: Death to Smoochy

When Sheldon Mopes, aka Smoochy the Rhino, is hired to replace kids show host Rainbow Randall, he doesn't realize that children's entertainment is anything but child's play. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jun 20, 2015 - 12 comments

Movie: Wag the Dog

[From IMDB] Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal. [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on May 4, 2015 - 9 comments

Movie: Wild Tales

An anthology film, it is composed of six standalone shorts united by a common theme of violence and vengeance. [more inside]
posted by jbickers on Apr 28, 2015 - 3 comments

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