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Movie: Memoir of a Snail

A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea pigs.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Feb 16, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: September 5

During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, an American sports broadcasting team must adapt to live coverage the Israeli athletes being held hostage by a terrorist group.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Feb 13, 2025 - 3 comments

Movie: White God

[TRAILER] 13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to save her dog. Failing in his desperate efforts to find his beloved owner, Hagen joins a canine revolt leading a revolution against their human abusers. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 7, 2025 - 6 comments

Movie: Out of the Blue

[TRAILER] Dennis Hopper directed and stars in Out of the Blue -- the spiritual sequel to his own "Easy Rider", chronicling the collapse of sixties idealism into the nihilistic haze of the 1980s. Don Barnes (Hopper) is a truck driver in prison for drunkenly smashing his rig into a school bus. Linda Manz (Days of Heaven) plays CeBe, his daughter, a young teen rebel and outsider obsessed with Elvis and the Sex Pistols. Her mother Kathy, (Sharon Farrell) waitresses, shoots up drugs and takes refuge in the arms of other men, including her husband's best friend, Charlie (Don Gordon). CeBe runs away to Vancouver's punk scene and ends up on juvenile probation under the care of well-meaning psychiatrist Dr. Brean (Raymond Burr). After Don's release, the family struggles to re-connect and start over before the revelation of dark secrets leads to a harrowing conclusion. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 3, 2025 - 5 comments

Movie: Kundo: Age of the Rampant

In 19th century Korea, a gang of outlaws takes on the corrupt nobility. [more inside]
posted by mark k on Jan 29, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: Juror #2

While serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, a family man finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma, one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the wrong killer. [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Jan 5, 2025 - 9 comments

Movie: Ms. 45

[TRAILER] A shy and mute seamstress (Zoë Lund) comes unglued after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick her up. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 3, 2025 - 10 comments

Movie: The China Syndrome

[TRAILER] A news reporter (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) are unintentional witnesses to an emergency core shutdown procedure at a nuclear power plant in California. The crew prevents a catastrophe, but the plant supervisor (Jack Lemmon) begins to suspect the plant is in violation of safety standards, and tries desperately to bring it to the attention of the public, fearing that another incident will produce an atomic disaster. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 2, 2025 - 7 comments

Movie: Old Joy

[TRAILER] Soon to be a father, Mark (Daniel London) feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt (Will Oldham) proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with the changes in their lives and the effect on their relationship. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 2, 2025 - 13 comments

Movie: National Anthem

[Trailer] A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream. -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 1, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Kuroneko / Black Cat

In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle with his own personal demons as well. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 28, 2024 - 2 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: Good One

In India Donaldson’s minimalist debut feature Good One, a middle-aged father, his perceptive 17-yo daughter, and another mess of a divorced buddy of his are going on a camping trip in the Catskills. That’s it, that's the whole simple plot. But it’s told with the maturity and eye-for-details of somebody who had intimately known and observed all three. [more inside]
posted by growabrain on Dec 24, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Last Year at Marienbad

[TRAILER] A group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a strange palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced that he has met the beautiful A (Delphine Seyrig) before in the Czech resort town of Marienbad, and implies they had a romantic relationship. M (Sacha Pitoeff), who may be A's husband or boyfriend, confronts her mysterious suitor, leading to conflict and questions about the truth behind his story. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 19, 2024 - 6 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: Metronom

[TRAILER] Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceaușescu's secret police, arrives... [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 17, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Carry On

[TRAILER] A mysterious traveler (Jason Bateman) blackmails a young TSA agent (Taron Egerton) into letting a dangerous package slip through security and onto a Christmas Day flight. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 17, 2024 - 13 comments

Movie: Blitz

[TRAILER] In World War II London, nine-year-old George (Elliott Heffernan) is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita (Saoirse Roman) to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 15, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: The Last Stop in Yuma County

[TRAILER] While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty--or cold, hard steel--to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune. The debut feature from writer-director Francis Galluppi, whose next film will be an entry in the Evil Dead franchise. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 15, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Prisoner of Shark Island

[TRAILER] John Ford's 1936 drama presents a highly whitewashed and fictionalized version of the life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter), who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his unanimous conviction for being one of Booth's accomplices. Co-stars Gloria Stuart ("Old Rose" from Titanic as Mudd's wife, Peggy.) [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 12, 2024 - 3 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: Wagon Master

[TRAILER] Two horse traders (Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.) are hired by a Mormon elder (Ward Bond) to guide his group's wagon train to the San Juan Valley. Along the way, they encounter rugged terrain, a stranded medicine show, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 3, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: The Set-Up

Bill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan), a 35-year-old has-been boxer, is about to take on a 23-year old, mob-controlled, opponent called Tiger Nelson, at the Paradise City Arena. His wife, Julie (Audrey Trotter), fears that this fight may be his last and wants him to forfeit the match. Stoker's manager is sure he will continue to lose fights, so he takes money for a "dive" from a mobster. He is so certain of Stoker's failure that he does not inform the boxer of the set-up. The film is presented as 72 minutes of "real time" continuous action. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 2, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Southern Comfort

[Trailer] During a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 28, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: The Immortal Story

An aged, wealthy trader (Orson Welles) is frustrated to find a story he has long believed turns out to be a maritime tall tale. Plotting with his bookkeeper (Roger Coggio), he attempts to make the story true, using a local woman (Jeanne Moreau) and an unknown sailor (Norman Eshley) as actors. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 25, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: The Ghost Ship

Tom Merriam (Russell Wade) boards the freighter Altair in San Pedro, where he meets Capt. Will Stone (Richard Dix). During that first voyage, Tom begins to suspect that Stone is becoming unhinged, but he also learns that the crew is fiercely protective of him. When fellow sailor Louie (Lawrence Tierney) is killed in a freak accident, Merriam suspects Stone, but has no proof. As the killings continue, Tom decides to leave the ship, but the captain has other plans. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 25, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Bedlam

London, 1761. After getting a glimpse of the conditions at the St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum, known as "Bedlam," Nell Bowen (Anna Lee) is concerned that the patients are being mistreated. When she seeks to better the situation, the head of St. Mary's, George Sims (Boris Karloff), uses his political savvy to have Nell committed. Being within St. Mary's does not deter Nell, however, and she starts to turn the patients against Sims in a bid to violently oust him from power. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 25, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Stranger on the Third Floor

When upstart journalist Michael Ward (John McGuire) testifies that he saw Joe Briggs (Elisha Cook Jr.) at the scene of a murder, Briggs is jailed and sentenced to death. Later, Michael's conscience and troubling dreams get the better of him. He tells his girlfriend, Jane (Margaret Tallichet), that he isn't certain Briggs is guilty. They begin to investigate, but unfortunately, the couple soon makes the acquaintance of an ominous, enigmatic man (Peter Lorre) who wants the case to stay closed. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 25, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Mademoiselle Fifi

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress (Simone Simon) shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer (derisively nicknamed "Mademoiselle Fifi") holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test. A Val Lewton production, based on two short stories by Guy de Maupassant, "Mademoiselle Fifi" and "Boule de Suif." [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 23, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Youth Runs Wild

[TRAILER] The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war. One of just two films produced by Val Lewton for RKO that was not horror. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 22, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Cat People

Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a Serbian-born NYC fashion designer, begins a romance with marine engineer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith). Oliver becomes concerned about Irena's notion that she is cursed and may transform into a large cat in the heat of passion. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 20, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: Evil Does Not Exist

[TRAILER] In the rural alpine hamlet of Mizubiki, Takumi and his daughter, Hana, lead a modest life gathering water, wood, and wild wasabi for the local udon restaurant. Increasingly, the townsfolk become aware of a plan to build an opulent glamping site nearby. When two company representatives arrive and ask for local guidance, Takumi becomes conflicted in his involvement, as it becomes clear that the project will have a pernicious impact on the community. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 19, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Kes

[TRAILER] Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, for a time. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 14, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Diamonds of the Night

[TRAILER] Two Jewish boys (Ladislav Jánský, Antonín Kumbera) escape from a Nazi death-camp convoy and go wild and hungry. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 12, 2024 - 2 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: Santa Sangre

[Trailer] A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms". -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 9, 2024 - 15 comments

Movie: A Taxi Driver

[Trailer] A widowed father and taxi driver drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, and soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him. [more inside]
posted by Bryant on Nov 6, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Tank

[TRAILER] After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey (James Garner) butts heads with the local sheriff (GD Spradlin). Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son (C. Thomas Howell), it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 2, 2024 - 11 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

Family: All Seasons  Season 1, Ep 1

American TV drama running from 1976-1980 showcasing the Lawrence family, an upper middle class household in Pasadena, CA. Starring Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, with Meredith Baxter Birney, Gary Frank and Kristy McNichol as their children, Nancy, Willie, and Buddy (aka Letitia, Tizzylish) [more inside]
posted by 2N2222 on Oct 12, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: The Wasp

[TRAILER] Heather (Naomie Harris) bumps into Carla (Natalie Dormer), having not spoken to her in years, and presents her with a very unexpected proposition that could change both of their lives forever. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 10, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: El hoyo en la cerca / The Hole in the Fence

[Trailer] As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself. -- Trakt [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 29, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Green Border

[TRAILER] In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped, constantly forced from one side of the border to the other. Thirty years after her film Europa Europa, Agnieszka Holland's Green Border challenges viewers to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 19, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Grave Torture

[TRAILER] When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death--a fixation that leads her on a dark quest. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 17, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: In Fabric

[TRAILER] Following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences, this Peter Strickland film is, at turns, chilling, surreal, hilarious, and inscrutable. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 16, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: Tender Mercies

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together. [more inside]
posted by infinitewindow on Sep 13, 2024 - 3 comments

The Deuce: Full 3rd Seaason  Season 3, Ep 0

AIDS, beepers, and VHS radically change the landscape of the Deuce.
posted by miss-lapin on Sep 12, 2024 - 2 comments

The Deuce: Full 2nd season  Season 2, Ep 0

Various characters confront the changing realities of prostitution, porn, and life in nyc.
posted by miss-lapin on Sep 12, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: Beast (2018)

[Trailer] A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders. - IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 5, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: The Count of Monte-Cristo

Edmond Dantes becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d'If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Sep 5, 2024 - 7 comments

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