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Movie: Kin-dza-dza!

[TRAILER] Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-Dza-Dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth. A deadpan, absurdist Rusisan sci-fi comedy form 1986, about alien cultures even more haphazard and WTF? than our own, the film is also a savage satire of bureaucratic idiocy and dysfunction no matter what political system you’re living under – or what planet you’re living on. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 31, 2025 - 1 comment

Bad Sisters: Season Two  Season 2, Ep 0

The five Very Not Bad Garvey Sisters (including co-creator Sharon Horgan) return for a second season of the most Irish dark-yet-heartfelt mystery-comedy on TV. Plus FanFare-favorite Fiona Shaw lives across the street now. [more inside]
posted by nobody on Jan 30, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: one of them days

When best friends and roommates Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) discover Alyssa's boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Jan 25, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Idiocracy

[TRAILER] In 2005, average in every way private Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is selected to take part in a secret military experiment to put him in hibernation for a year along with a woman named Rita (Maya Rudolph). The slumbering duo is forgotten when the base they are stored on is closed down and are left in stasis until 2505. When they finally wake up, they discover the average intelligence of humans has decreased so much that Joe is now the smartest man in the world. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 22, 2025 - 38 comments

Movie: Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

[TRAILER] When famous American detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in the strange case of a missing dog and an even stranger carnivorous plant. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 21, 2025 - 4 comments

Abbott Elementary: Testing  Season 4, Ep 10

Janine's class fails their practice test. Jacob tries to engage a student, and has a fractious relationship with his bus driver. Mr Johnson trains his intended replacement.
posted by simonw on Jan 20, 2025 - 6 comments

Movie: Chasing Amy

Holden and Banky are successful Superhero comic book artists. Everything is going great until Holden meets Romance comic book artist Alyssa. Holden falls for her, but there's a problem... she's a lesbian! Can they be friends while constantly talking about sex and comic books in the mid 90s? [more inside]
posted by WhackyparseThis on Jan 18, 2025 - 14 comments

Laid: Season One  Season 1, Ep 0

Everyone Stephanie Hsu has ever slept with is dying, one by one. In the order she slept with them. And Zosia Mamet is here to help crack the case. (With cameos from John Early, playing himself, and Simu Liu, not playing himself.) [more inside]
posted by nobody on Jan 17, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: Ball of Fire

A sweet, funny 1941 romcom starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Directed by Howard Hawks. Co-written by Billy Wilder. New York City contains both a house of eight scholars toiling away on an encyclopedia AND a nightclub singer being pushed around by mobsters. Can nerdery, a garbage collector, and a collection of shenanigans get everything to come out right? Viewable for free on Internet Archive.
posted by brainwane on Jan 8, 2025 - 10 comments

Movie: Cunk on Life

[Trailer] Philomena Cunk delves into life's profound questions, examining subjects from the big bang to AI, meeting academics and creatives, all with her trademark misguided observations. -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 7, 2025 - 13 comments

Movie: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

Sonic (Ben Schwartz), Knuckles (Idris Elba), and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow (Keanu Reeves), a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Jan 7, 2025 - 8 comments

Movie: The Notorious Landlady

Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak, and Fred Astaire star as American characters in early sixties London, navigating a murder mystery, a budding romance, and potential embarrassment to the US Embassy. Lemmon later confided, the romance-comedy-mystery film "had so many twists and turns I couldn't follow it. A couple of years ago it came on television and I sat through it again and still couldn't get a handle on it. I delivered lines in that picture with absolute conviction - and I haven't the faintest idea to this day what they meant." Currently streaming for free on Tubi in the US.
posted by brainwane on Jan 7, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Hardly Working

After The Day The Clown Cried fell apart, Jerry Lewis stopped directing for the rest of the Seventies. Then he launched a comeback with this episodic comedy about an unemployed circus clown trying to find employment. Roger Ebert called it "one of the worst movies ever to achieve commercial release in this country". [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 6, 2025 - 11 comments

Movie: Bookworm

[TRAILER] Eleven-year-old Mildred (Nell Fisher) has her life turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and her estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise (Elijah Wood) comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding: a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 2, 2025 - 5 comments

Movie: Sometimes I Think About Dying

[TRAILER] Fran (Daisy Ridley) likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 28, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Anthony Jeselnik: Bones and All

Anthony Jeselnik celebrates 20 years of delivering boundary-pushing comedy to the masses.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 24, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Cop Au Vin

[TRAILER] In a small French town, a bitter, demanding disabled mother (Stéphane Audran) and her dutiful, oppressed son (Lucas Belvaux) are pressured to sell their land for a shady development deal, and decide to fight back. When one of the scheme's sponsors ends up dead in a most unusual way, the skilled and determined Inspector Lavardin (Jean Poiret) arrives to uncover and clean up the mystery. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 21, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Brand Upon the Brain!

Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 18, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Rumours

The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Dec 16, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: Nutcrackers

[TRAILKER] Just as Mike (Ben Stiller) is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he's pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohio in order to help his recently orphaned nephews find a new home. Will this selfish city slicker learn the true value of family and Christmas? [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 11, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: Warm Bodies

[Trailer] After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 29, 2024 - 5 comments

Abbott Elementary: The Deli  Season 4, Ep 6

A beloved neighborhood deli faces closure. Jacob's canvassing shows a rare spark of effectiveness. Ava gives a speech.
posted by simonw on Nov 15, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Anora

Anora, a young exotic dancer and sex worker, meets and accepts the marriage proposal of the hard-partying son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news hits the tabloids, Anora's fairytale is threatened as enforcers are dispatched to take control of the situation before his parents arrive in New York to undo what's been done.
posted by AzraelBrown on Nov 13, 2024 - 10 comments

Abbott Elementary: Dad Fight  Season 4, Ep 5

Gregory inadvertently triggers a Parent-Teacher Fight Night. Melissa should really get to a doctor.
posted by simonw on Nov 10, 2024 - 7 comments

Movie: Goodbye, Dragon Inn

[TRAILER] On a dark, wet night, a movie palace in Taipei is closing, but not before one final film is shown -- Dragon Inn a 1967 actioner and a source of nostalgia for the moviegoers and employees in the old, decrepit and possibly haunted building. As the film plays, the lives of the theater’s various employees and patrons intersect, and two aging actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era. A critically acclaimed slow cinema comedy/drama from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 10, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Time Addicts

[TRAILER] Aussie buds Denise and Johnny agree to a sketchy job to pay off a debt to their drug dealer. They break into a decrepit stash house to steal a bag of mysterious drugs, finding out when they sample them that these drugs cause a person to time travel. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 2, 2024 - 4 comments

Abbott Elementary: Costume Contest  Season 4, Ep 4

Halloween comes to Abbott. The staff get into the spirit of the holiday. Janine and Gregory have the best couple's costume.
posted by simonw on Oct 31, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Practical Magic

(Trailer) Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love. [more inside]
posted by Marky on Oct 28, 2024 - 15 comments

Abbott Elementary: Class Pet  Season 4, Ep 3

The school gets budget for class pets, and receives a visit from a school district IT specialist.
posted by simonw on Oct 25, 2024 - 5 comments

Dropout Presents: Courtney Pauroso: Vanessa 5000  Season 1, Ep 10000

"Courtney Pauroso examines society's relationship with technology as sex robot Vanessa 5000." A one-hour Dropout Original live special, a one-woman show that starts off as comedy but goes some other places. Also available: an 11-minute behind-the-scenes video. Tags on Dropout's site: Dropout Presents, stand up comedy, improv, laughing, courtney pauroso, unhinged, dystopian, technology, robots, sexual fantasies. I'd add: cyberpunk, feminist, kink, music, scifi, clowning (Pauroso discusses how her clown experience feeds into this show). Mind the content notes on Dropout's site. [more inside]
posted by brainwane on Oct 22, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Sleep with Me

Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 20, 2024 - 8 comments

Abbott Elementary: Ringworm  Season 4, Ep 2

When a student is found to have ringworm, the staff attempt to stop it spreading throughout the entire school.
posted by simonw on Oct 19, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: The Comedy of Terrors

[Trailer] Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones. -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 7, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Sorry/Not Sorry

[Trailer] An inside look at Louis CK's fall and return to the spotlight. Interviews include fellow comedians and women who spoke up about his sexual misconduct. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 7, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Goosebumps (2015)

[Trailer] A teenager teams up with the daughter of young-adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware. - IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 21, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Prevenge

Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way. --IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Aug 20, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers

Suzume feels invisible and insignificant, lumbering through life like a turtle. She is then recruited into a spy agency. The spies, waiting for orders from above, strive to live their lives hidden in plain sight as ordinary, normal, even boring Japanese. Becoming a spy invigorates Suzume… [more inside]
posted by jabah on Aug 20, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Q: The Winged Serpent

A small-time crook stumbles onto the nest of a winged serpent attacking New York City, and hopes to use his discovery to broker a deal with the police.
posted by johnofjack on Aug 18, 2024 - 7 comments

Movie: Big Boys (2023)

[Trailer] A shy 14-year-old boy's camping trip is complicated when his cousin brings her boyfriend along. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Aug 11, 2024 - 2 comments

The Umbrella Academy: Full Final Season  Season 4, Ep 0

Six years have passed, the siblings have adjusted and settled into to life without super powers until... [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 10, 2024 - 16 comments

Movie: Night on Earth

[TRAILER] Jim Jarmusch's film presents five stories, each involving a cab ride and set in a different city around the world. In Los Angeles, no-nonsense taxi driver Corky (Winona Ryder) gets an engaging customer in the form of a Hollywood casting agent (Gena Rowlands). In New York, streetwise YoYo (Giancarlo Esposito) finds his cabbie Helmut (Armin Mueller-Stahl) knows precious little about how to actually drive. In Paris, a cabbie (Isaach de Bankolé) spars with a blind customer (Béatrice Dalle). In Rome, quirky driver Gino (Roberto Benigni) makes a lively confession to an ailing priest (Paolo Bonacelli). And finally, in Helsinki, somber Mika (Matti Pellonpää) picks up three men headed home after a night of drinking their troubles away. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 1, 2024 - 13 comments

Movie: Parenthood

Four Buckman siblings attempt to raise their children - each in their own different style - and deal with the joys and sorrows that the process brings. [more inside]
posted by skycrashesdown on Jul 31, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: The Wrong Guy

After his boss is murdered, Nelson is on the run for fear of prosecution. He hides out in a small town to avoid the police, which should be easy because they know he didn't do it and they aren't looking for him. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Jul 30, 2024 - 11 comments

Movie: Theater of Blood

A Shakespearean actor feels he's been robbed of a prestigious award and takes arms against his sea of critics.
posted by johnofjack on Jul 29, 2024 - 12 comments

The Decameron: Limited Season-Full Season  Season 1, Ep 0

In 1348, The Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in human history, ravages Florence. A group of servants, nobles, and scoundrels are invited to a villa in the Italian countryside. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jul 27, 2024 - 18 comments

Movie: The Big 4

[TRAILER] Four retired assassins spring back into action when they cross paths with a straight-arrow cop determined to track down an elusive murderer. This action comedy from acclaimed Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto is "gory, gonzo, goofy and overflowing with the director’s signature mayhem" and "like The Three Stooges with bazookas". [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 2, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: The Princess and the Frog

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him. [more inside]
posted by Nekosoft on Jun 30, 2024 - 4 comments

Ali Siddiq: The Domino Effect (Full series)

Ali Siddiq tells true stories of his adolescent years growing up in Houston, Texas which led to his eventual incarceration. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by transient on Jun 24, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Drive

[TRAILER] Maybe you saw Guillermo del Toro's recent tweet praising Drive as "an unbelievable, exhilarating film." Thing is: he isn't talking about the 2011 Drive with Ryan Gosling. He's talking about the bonkers 1997 US buddy comedy/Hong Kong-style action/sci-fi B movie gem with Mark Dacascos (whom we enjoyed kicking ass in John Wick 3), Kadeem Hardison (Dwayne Wayne from A Different World), and Brittany Murphy, doing one of those turns where she transforms a peripheral "the girl" part into something electric and weird. It's a lost delight that ticks a lot of the best B movie nerd boxes. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 23, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go

Hannah Einbinder, acclaimed for her Emmy-nominated role in "Hacks," brings her stand-up prowess to the forefront with "Everything Must Go," her debut comedy special that showcases her comedic talents.
posted by onya on Jun 17, 2024 - 8 comments

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