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Widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), have a strong bond, but Emma marries teacher Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels) against her mother's wishes. When the marriage sours, Emma returns to her mother, who is involved with a former astronaut (Jack Nicholson). Soon, Emma learns that she has terminal cancer. In the hospital, supported by Aurora, she tries to make peace with Flap and her children. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 12, 2022 - 3 comments

[Season premiere; part 1 of 2] The Enterprise crew mysteriously arrives in an alternate WWII with quite different patterns of force. As it turns out, a hostile alien species is distorting the timeline for their own little killing game. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jan 12, 2020 - 12 comments

[Season finale] As the season, and its experimental season-long arc, wind to a close, we finally get the answer: was it worth it, or in the end, were the results... less than zero? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jan 5, 2020 - 13 comments

Back to the future! But is Archer giving short shrift to the Power of Love? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Nov 24, 2019 - 3 comments

Enterprise's visit to a mining colony is over before it starts. [more inside]
posted by mordax on Jan 28, 2019 - 9 comments

The Vulcan Science Directorate would like to remind everyone to stay calm, because there is definitely no such thing as time travel. [more inside]
posted by mordax on Oct 14, 2018 - 9 comments

Just when Keanu Reeves thinks he is back out, after having been pulled back in, after being out of the game, he is pulled back again to the world of sumo assassins, hobos, mute bodyguards, very significant coins, Common, hotels, rockabilly girl murder switchboards, and endless parade of goons with heads woefully lacking bullets. A sequel to John Wick. [more inside]
posted by fleacircus on Feb 11, 2017 - 26 comments

"Conscience do cost." - Butchie [more inside]
posted by nubs on Jan 13, 2015 - 2 comments

McNulty uses his children to tail Stringer after a chance encounter in a local market. Greggs and Carver arrest a driver picking up a large amount of cash from the Towers from known gang members, but are forced to return the money when the driver's political connections to Senator Clay Davis are revealed. Daniels discusses his problems following the money trail with his wife Marla.
posted by desjardins on Jul 2, 2014 - 22 comments