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After reading Oliver Roeder's On the Insanity of Being a Scrabble Enthusiast, I wondered if there are any good Scrabble movies. Sometimes, Always, Never is about fathers and sons who play badly together. Bill Nighy plays a sophisticated tailor who‘s also an obsessive Scrabble grifter, setting up confidence games with strangers. [more inside]
posted by growabrain on Mar 13, 2025 - 2 comments

[TRAILER] When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 14, 2024 - 14 comments

[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

When ghostly pirate Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) comes to collect a blood debt, Capt. Jack Sparrow must find a way to avoid his fate lest his soul be damned for all time. Nevertheless, the wily ghost manages to interrupt the wedding plans of Jack's friends Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 17, 2022 - 1 comment

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times - the mythical so-called Golem - must be responsible. [more inside]
posted by lesser weasel on Mar 11, 2018 - 1 comment

A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 6, 2018 - 29 comments

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 12, 2014 - 27 comments