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Movie: (500) Days of Summer

[TRAILER] Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 13, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Visitors - Complete Edition

Evil meets comedy: creatures, flying eyes, chainsaws, musical heads, Lloyd Kaufman, mystical apparitions, sci-fi horror comedy and a host of other gleeful shenanigans. Director Ken'ichi Ugana expands his sixteen minute short into a loopy, surreal 61 minute feature. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 12, 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: The Coca-Cola Kid

(Trailer)An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley. [more inside]
posted by Marky on Feb 11, 2024 - 10 comments

Movie: Lisa Frankenstein

[TRAILER] 80's teen misfit Lisa (Kathryn Newton) struggles with a new school and a new family when her dad remarries. She clashes with overbearing, Jazzercising stepmom (Carla Gugino) while her super-positive cheerleader stepsister Taffy (Liza Soberano) tries to change her social standing, but Lisa would rather spend her nights in a cemetery. Her favorite pastime: taking care of the grave of a pianist who died by suicide in 1837. After a deeply humiliating experience at a party, Lisa goes to her happy place and says the somewhat magical words, “I wish I was with you.” A few well-placed lightning bolts later, the mud-covered Victorian-era corpse (Cole Sprouse) is lumbering into her house, becoming the companion she needs, but also kicking off a murder spree. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 11, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: Into the Night (1985)

Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum) used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer). Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive. [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Feb 10, 2024 - 7 comments

Movie: Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told

[TRAILER] Chauffeur Bruno (Lon Chaney Jr.) looks after three strange siblings at their family estate. Ralph (Sid Haig), Virginia (Jill Banner) and Elizabeth (Beverly Washburn) all suffer from an inherited condition: a genetic disorder that causes a reversal in mental age and results in a crazed, childlike disposition. Because of his affection for the family, Bruno covers up the siblings' bizarre behavior and crimes. But, when relatives arrive at the family estate, the truth is bound to come out. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 9, 2024 - 5 comments

Get On Your Knees - Jacqueline Novak

Comedian Jacqueline Novak waxes very poetically about a particular life-long obsession of hers. [more inside]
posted by Thorzdad on Jan 28, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Blithe Spirit (2020)

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years. [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Jan 27, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Blithe Spirit (1945)

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a scéance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage. [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Jan 27, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Role Play

[TRAILER] Emma (Kaley Cuoco) has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey. She also has a secret life as an assassin for hire... a secret that her husband David (David Oyelowo) discovers when the couple decide to spice up their marriage with a little role play. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 21, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Destroy All Neighbors

Struggling prog-rock musician William Brown finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally kills Vlad, the neighbor from hell. [more inside]
posted by rodlymight on Jan 14, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Vacation

[TRAILER] Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) takes his wife Debbie (Christina Applegate) and their two sons (Skyler Gisondo, Steele Stebbins) on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 11, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: RED

[TRAILER] After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe (Morgan Freeman), crazy Marvin (John Malkovich) and wily Victoria (Helen Mirren) to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 9, 2024 - 12 comments

Movie: Candy Cane Lane

[TRAILER] Chris Carver (Eddie Murphy), determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, makes a pact with an elf (Jillian Bell) to help him win. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of Christmas to life, bringing chaos to the small, unsuspecting town. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 9, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: All Eyes

A disgraced podcast host (Jasper Hammer) interviews an eccentric farmer (Mel Hall) who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 5, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: There's Something in the Barn

Clark Griswold Bill Nordheim takes his wife Ellen Carol and their children Russ Lucas and Audrey Nora to Norway to fulfill his dream of moving back to the home country after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains. Christmas becomes complicated when it turns out the home comes with an angry, demanding barn elf. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 5, 2024 - 4 comments

Letterkenny: The Final Season  Season 12, Ep 0

Letterkenny is back one more time with six new episodes. [more inside]
posted by 4th number on Jan 3, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Young Doctors in Love

In this parody of hospital soap operas, a new batch of doctors begins their internship at City Hospital, and romance is in the air! [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jan 1, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Theater Camp

After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless “crypto-bro” son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
posted by garrett on Dec 14, 2023 - 5 comments

Special Event: Film Crew: THE WILD WOMEN OF WONGO

Possibly the most awkward of the four movies Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy riffed as The Film Crew, it's 1959's version of a crazy sex comedy. Mother Nature and Father Time muse on the situation of the island of Wongo, where the menu are ugly and the women are beautiful, and of Goona, where the reverse is true. In the end those of matching levels of comeliness are paired up, and 1959 societal expectations are upheld.
posted by JHarris on Nov 16, 2023 - 7 comments

Ten Percent: British remake of Call My Agent / Dix Pour Cent  Season 1, Ep 0

British version of the French show Dix pour cent (English title Call My Agent) a comedy dram about a London talent agency where agents scramble to keep their star clients happy and their business afloat. [more inside]
posted by Zumbador on Nov 10, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: I'm Your Man (Ich ben dein Mensch)

Alma is a scientist at Berlin's Pergamon Museum. Due to her expertise, she is selected to participate in an extraordinary research experiment: to live for three weeks with a humanoid robot designed to be her ideal life partner. Starring Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens. Directed by Maria Schrader (She Said). [more inside]
posted by fleacircus on Nov 3, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Viking

A sly, deadpan Canadian comedy about a team of non-astronauts sent into isolation in a desert on Earth because their personalities match the members of an actual ongoing Mars mission that's having interpersonal conflicts. The earthbound team is tasked with mirroring the real astronauts' behavior and coming up with solutions to the Martian team's psychological problems. 100% on RT with 9 reviews, free on Tubi and other options, mostly in French with English subtitles.
posted by mediareport on Oct 24, 2023 - 2 comments

Behind Your Touch: Behind Your Touch  Season 1, Ep 0

A village veterinarian receives a secret ability: when she touches a person or animal's butt, she's able to read their past. Though this leads to a lot of questionable scenarios, when a cop discovers her ability, he needs her help to catch the killer in their midst. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Oct 4, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: Satanic Hispanics

A new horror anthology film featuring segments from Latinx directors Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider), Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project), Demián Rugna (Terrified), and Gigi Saul Guerrero(Bingo Hell). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 15, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: My Girl

Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father (Dan Aykroyd) runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J. (Macaulay Culkin), her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse... [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 11, 2023 - 16 comments

Movie: Summerland

[TRAILER] Reclusive and irritable writer Alice Lamb (Gemma Atherton) finds her life disrupted by the arrival of evacuee Frank, a London schoolboy who slowly breaks through her reserve as World War II rages across the channel. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 9, 2023 - 3 comments

A Very Secret Service: Au service de la France  Season 0, Ep 0

In 1960 the French intelligence service hires 23-year-old André Merlaux, a handsome and intelligent, but impressionable man with much to learn. Au Service de la France is like a cocktail of James Bond, The Office and Mad Men if all three were transported to a French context and imbued with contemporary New Wave influences. First season appeared in 2014 and the second 2016. [more inside]
posted by rongorongo on Aug 29, 2023 - 8 comments

Movie: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

[TRAIILER] When Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll and he has burned through eight of his nine lives, he launches an epic journey to restore them by finding the mythical Last Wish. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 28, 2023 - 19 comments

Movie: Duets

[TRAILER] A collection of disparate but equally damaged characters is traveling to Omaha, Neb. to perform in a karaoke competition with a grand prize of $5,000. They include con artist Ricky Dean (Huey Lewis), who finds his long-lost daughter, Liv (Gwyneth Paltrow), and brings her along for the ride, as well as a beleaguered salesman, Todd (Paul Giamatti). These and other people with more than their share of eccentricities invest their hopes and dreams in the competition. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 28, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: Book of Monsters

Sophie's friends decide her 18th party is gonna be a banger! Unfortunately the party gets out of hand when it is crashed by actual monsters!
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 23, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Status Update

[TRAILER] A teenager stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social media updates to come true. No really: that's the plot and millions of dollars were spent to make this. Is it a tax dodge? A dominatrix flexing her control of a studio exec? I honestly do not know. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 23, 2023 - 10 comments

Movie: The Duke

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, aspiring playwright, and champion of the political cause of no television license fees for senior citizens, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. [more inside]
posted by orange swan on Aug 22, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Late Bloomers

[TRAILER] High School basketball coach, Dinah Groshardt, falls for the school secretary, Carly Lumpkin, and upsets the entire school in the process. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Go Fish

[TRAILER] Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging? [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: The Watermelon Woman

[TRAILER] Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

[TRAILER] Randy Dean (Laurel Holloman), a boyish lesbian who works at a gas station, has trouble performing in high school and is treated badly by bigoted locals because of her sexual identity. She begins an unlikely friendship with one of her school's popular girls, the affluent Evie (Nicole Parker). But when their friendship blossoms into a romance, the two find themselves struggling with the intricacies and pitfalls of discovering love, and having to reveal their relationship to friends and family. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 3 comments

Loudermilk: Season 3: Full Final Season  Season 3, Ep 0

Loudermilk continues to lead his Sober Friends Group while trying to take care of his baby brother who was abandoned by his mother. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 14, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
posted by anonymous on Aug 13, 2023 - 13 comments

Movie: Corner Office

As Orson, The Authority's newest employee, finds himself trapped in the absurdities of corporate life, his alienation deepens when he discovers a room he's told doesn't exist. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Aug 13, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Mission: Possible

[TRAILER] Chinese secret agent Da-hee receives intel that a large number of illegal firearms are being smuggled into Korea and is sent to investigate the case. She meets Su-han, who was supposed to help her with the case but due to his lackluster skills, they keep fighting over really trivial things. But as their witnesses are suddenly murdered, the two of them quickly become the prime suspects. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Okay Madam

[TRAILER] A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 8 comments

Movie: From Beijing with Love

[TRAILER] After a giant dinosaur skull is stolen, the head of the Chinese secret police decides to assign the case to the force’s most incompetent reject: a rural butcher who stands around all day drinking martinis (shaken, not stirred). With a trunkload of insanely useless gadgets and a contact who constantly tries to kill him, the young agent must locate the skull and find out just what is going on here. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Key of Life

[TRAILER] A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite international assassin. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Anacleto: Agente Secreto

[TRAILER] Security guard Adolfo has been dumped by his longtime girlfriend for having no ambition. Even worse, he has somehow become the target of Vázquez, a dangerous criminal just escaped from jail. To survive, Adolfo will need help from his father, who he always believed made sausages for a living. The truth though is that Anacleto is one of the world's finest secret agents. aka Spy Time. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Kill Boksoon

[TRAILER] A single mother who is a renowned hired killer finds it difficult to achieve a balance between her personal and work life. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 1 comment

Loudermilk: Season 2: Full Season   Season 2, Ep 0

In the wake of discovering that his ex-wife married his former roommate/friend/sponsor Ben, taking a shot of bourbon at Mardi Gras, losing his role as a Sober Friends counselor at the church, and sleeping with his neighbor Allison, Loudermilk continues to try to help members of his group in the storage closet of a record store/coffee shop. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 9, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: The Roundup

[TRAILER] The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 9, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Hi, Mom

Devastated after her mom's serious accident and grief-stricken because she hasn't become the daughter she wanted to be for her mother, Jia Xiaoling finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she meets her young mother before she was her mom. Hi, Mom was only recently dethroned by Barbie as the highest film ever directed by a solo female director (it grossed over $825 million US dollars). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 9, 2023 - 1 comment

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