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An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Sep 1, 2024 - 13 comments

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 24, 2023 - 21 comments

[TRAILER] Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), pampered action superstar, sets out for Southeast Asia to take part in the biggest, most-expensive war movie produced, but soon after filming begins, he and his co-stars, Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), comic Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) and the rest of the crew, must become real soldiers when fighting breaks out in that part of the jungle. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 12, 2022 - 19 comments

[TRAILER] Talented gymnast Janey (Sarah Jessica Parker) has always followed the orders of her strict Army colonel father and stayed out of the spotlight. But when she moves to a new town and meets the carefree Lynne (Helen Hunt), she disobeys her father for the first time in her life. With Lynne's encouragement, Janey enters a TV dance competition -- and soon finds herself with both a cute dance partner and an archrival who is dead set on getting Janey eliminated from the contest. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 30, 2022 - 2 comments

[TRAILER] Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is concerned that his son Jason (Keith Gordon) is unsure whether to go to college, so the uneducated self-made millionaire encourages him by signing up as a student as well. As Jason tries to establish himself among his peers and make the diving team, Thornton falls for a pretty professor (Sally Kellerman) and gets others do his schoolwork for him. When the suspicious dean (Paxton Whitehead) finds out, Thornton needs to show he can get by on his own. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 30, 2022 - 13 comments

The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl. [more inside]
posted by skycrashesdown on Aug 27, 2022 - 4 comments

U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan, who has been accused of a double-murder. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Aug 9, 2022 - 6 comments

It's a short season shot partially during the pandemic, but all four episodes are worth a watch, even the Kardashian one (they visit a CVS together). But the Chappelle episode is amazing and if you're only going to pick one, I'd encourage you to watch that one.
posted by Stanczyk on Oct 24, 2020 - 1 comment

With the world now aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must contend with both his declining health and a vengeful mad man with ties to his father's legacy. [more inside]
posted by computech_apolloniajames on Sep 27, 2020 - 20 comments

A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets.
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 22, 2020 - 4 comments

A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Dec 18, 2018 - 16 comments

After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Nov 24, 2017 - 5 comments

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, genius-playboy-philanthropist-billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight escape.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Oct 27, 2016 - 21 comments

Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family. [more inside]
posted by jazon on Apr 26, 2015 - 0 comments

Eddie Dodd (James Woods), a cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers, becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case. Helped out by idealistic young lawyer Roger Baron (Robert Downey Jr.) he takes on the cause of convicted killer Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), loosely based on the real-life case of Chol Soo Lee. [more inside]
posted by Gin and Broadband on Mar 18, 2015 - 1 comment

A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 31, 2014 - 9 comments

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joe McCarthy. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 12, 2014 - 6 comments