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Movie: The Andromeda Strain

[TRAILER] Virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 18, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Classe Tous Risques

A ruthless criminal (Lino Ventura) flees pursuit with his family in tow, resulting in more and more casualties. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Mar 16, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: Kinetta

[TRAILER] During off-season at a Greek seaside resort, three strangers—a police officer out of uniform with a thing for German luxury cars and Russian women, an eccentric photographer, and a hotel chambermaid—join forces for a rather strange reason: to recreate homicides. Meticulously and with an almost ritualistic approach, the unlikely trio reenact crime scenes of brutal murders, to the point where the boundaries of their own private lives slowly begin to blur. The first feature film by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 12, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Macbeth

[TRAILER] Macbeth (Orson Welles), a medieval Scottish general, is told by three witches he will rise to be king. After learning the prophecy, he's pressured by his ambitious wife, Lady Macbeth (Jeanette Nolan), to murder King Duncan (Erskine Sanford) and seize the throne. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 11, 2024 - 10 comments

Movie: Russian Ark

[TRAILER] A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history, as three centuries of Russian history are condensed into a single, uninterrupted, 87-minute take. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 7, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: Twilight

[TRAILER] High-school student Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), always a bit of a misfit, doesn't expect life to change much when she moves from sunny Arizona to rainy Washington state. Then she meets Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a handsome but mysterious teen whose eyes seem to peer directly into her soul. Edward is a vampire whose family does not drink blood, and Bella, far from being frightened, enters into a dangerous romance with her immortal soulmate. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 4, 2024 - 12 comments

Movie: Twilight

[TRAILER] I keep threatening to post Twilight and now I am. Thing is: this isn't the one with the sparkly vampires. This is Szürkület, the 1990 Hungarian crime film by Béla Tarr's friend & collaborator, György Fehér. The plot: after discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer -- known only as "The Giant" -- responsible for the crime. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 4, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Intouchables

After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. [more inside]
posted by pwnguin on Mar 3, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Grand Illusion

[TRAILER] A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin), grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim), who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 28, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Butcher Boy

[TRAILER] Francie (Eamonn Owens) has a disastrous childhood and retreats into television and movies to escape the pain. His mother (Aisling O'Sullivan) is suicidal, and his alcoholic father (Stephen Rea) has little to do with him. Francie's tendency to project violent fantasies onto reality lands him in reform school, where he is sexually abused. Wildly looking to hold someone responsible for all the trauma visited on him, Francie targets his neighbor, Mrs. Nugent (Fiona Shaw). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 28, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Atonement

[TRAILER] When young lovers Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) are torn apart by a lie constructed by Cecilia's jealous younger sister, Briony (Saoirse Ronan), all three of them must deal with the consequences. Robbie is the hardest hit, since Briony's deception results in his imprisonment, but hope for Cecilia and her beau increases when their paths cross during World War II. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 27, 2024 - 4 comments

Breathtaking: Full season  Season 1, Ep 0

Breathtaking is a three-part British medical drama television series broadcast on ITV and available for streaming on ITVx. Based on a memoir of the same name written by Rachel Clarke covering the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. The series was written by Clarke with Jed Mercurio and Prasanna Puwanarajah. It stars Joanne Froggatt and was directed by Craig Viveiros. [more inside]
posted by Erinaceus europaeus on Feb 23, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Out of Darkness

[TRAILER] A small boat reaches the shores of a raw and desolate landscape. A group of six have struggled across the narrow sea to find a new home. They are starving, desperate, and living 45,000 years ago. First they must find shelter, and they strike out across the tundra wastes towards the distant mountains that promise the abundant caves they need to survive. But when night falls, anticipation turns to fear and doubt as they realize they are not alone. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 19, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Hotel Rwanda

[TRAILER] Hutu Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) manages the Hôtel des Mille Collines and lives a happy life with his Tutsi wife and their three children, but when Hutu military forces initiate a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Tutsi minority, Paul is compelled to allow refugees to take shelter in his hotel. As the U.N. pulls out, Paul must struggle alone to protect the Tutsi refugees in the face of the escalating violence later known as the Rwandan genocide. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 16, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Brokeback Mountain

[TRAILER] In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart, Alma (Michelle Williams), and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider (Anne Hathaway), the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 15, 2024 - 12 comments

Movie: The Devil Wears Prada

[TRAILER] Andy (Anne Hathaway) is a recent college graduate with big dreams. Upon landing a job at prestigious Runway magazine, she finds herself the assistant to diabolical editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). Andy questions her ability to survive her grim tour as Miranda's whipping girl without getting scorched. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 13, 2024 - 24 comments

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 - 9 comments

Movie: The Stranger

[TRAILER] Immediately following World War II, ex-Nazi Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) is living under a false identity as a teacher in a small Connecticut town, and has even married the headmaster's daughter (Loretta Young) as part of his cover. But when one of Kindler's old German associates (Konstantin Shayne) arrives unexpectedly in town, bringing in his wake a sly federal investigator (Edward G. Robinson), Kindler resorts to desperate measures to preserve his secret. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 9, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Journey into Fear

An American engineer in Istanbul, Howard Graham (Joseph Cotten), becomes the target of a Nazi assassination due to his involvement in improving the Turkish navy. With the help of police Colonel Haki (Orson Welles), Graham escapes from his hotel to board a ship to safety, leaving behind his wife (Ruth Warrick). On board, he encounters a number of passengers, including the dancer Josette Martel (Dolores del Río). However, the passenger Peter Banat (Jack Moss) is not who he appears to be. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 9, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: The Exorcist: Believer

[TRAILER] When two girls disappear into the woods and return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, the father of one girl seeks out Chris MacNeil, who's been forever altered by what happened to her daughter fifty years ago. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 9, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: The Baker

[TRAILER] An elderly baker (Ron Perlman) must do everything he can to protect his granddaughter from gangsters. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 5, 2024 - 5 comments

Expats: The Peak  Season 1, Ep 1

[TRAILER] Three expat women (Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo) living in Hong Kong cross paths at a birthday party. It becomes apparent they share a mysterious connection from their past. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 28, 2024 - 2 comments

A Small Light: Complete Miniseries  Season 1, Ep 0

[TRAILER] Follows the true story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 24, 2024 - 7 comments

Reacher: Fly Boy   Season 2, Ep 8

Reacher and Neagley make a final desperate attempt to save O'Donnell and Dixon, stop A.M. and avenge their friends' murder. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 21, 2024 - 30 comments

Movie: Soy Cuba / I Am Cuba / Я - Куба

A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution. A young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend. A tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how. University students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval. And, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family get swept up into the burgeoning revolt. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 2, 2023 - 3 comments

Book: Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë

At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.
posted by johnofjack on Nov 26, 2023 - 22 comments

Movie: Thelma

A sheltered college student tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her, causing her suppressed psychokinetic powers to reemerge. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 24, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: La noire de ... / Black Girl

Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a governess to a family in southern France, where she suffers from discrimination and marginalization. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 24, 2023 - 2 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 - 2 comments

Special Event: The Film Crew: HOLLYWOOD AFTER DARK

After Mystery Science Theater 3000, some of the performers/writers/crew (a lot of them filled multiple roles) moved on to other things. One of these projects was a series of riffing-related projects they called The Film Crew, with Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy. They did a few different things, and of them all the one that has best survived is a series of four direct-to-DVD movie riffs, done with a framing story and a sketch at a mid-movie break. This is the first, Hollywood After Dark, a.k.a. Walk The Angry Beach, starring later Golden Girl Rue McClanahan as Sandy, "stripper who aspires to become an actress but ends up being taken advantage of by the industry," sez Wikipedia. My how times haven't changed. While originally made for Rhino Video in 2006, the Film Crew disks weren't released by Shout Factory until 2007, and the character of "Bob Rhino," voice played by late MST3K writer Mike Dodge, had to be renamed to Bob Honcho. It's another MST-related project from MST Club.
posted by JHarris on Nov 2, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: The Wicker Man

[TRAILER] A reclusive lawman (Nicolas Cage) travels to a secluded island to search for a girl who has gone missing. Once there, he discovers sinister forces at work among the island's secretive residents, including strange sexual rituals, a harvest festival and possible human sacrifice. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 12, 2023 - 15 comments

Movie: Ulee's Gold

[TRAILER] Widowed beekeeper and Vietnam veteran Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson (Peter Fonda) raises his granddaughters (among them, Casey, played by Jessica Biel) because his son, Jimmy (Tom Wood), is in prison. When Jimmy finds out that his estranged wife, Helen (Christine Dunford), has gotten herself into trouble with a crew of drug dealers and has run away, he asks Ulee for help. Ulee begrudgingly agrees to find Helen. When he does, he must rely on the unexpected aid of a divorced nurse (Patricia Richardson) to get Helen through her withdrawal. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 12, 2023 - 4 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: The Secret Life of Bees

[TRAILER] Haunted by memories of her late mother and abused by her father (Paul Bettany), 14-year-old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) runs away with her friend and caregiver Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson) to the South Carolina town that holds the key to her mother's past. There, Lily meets the Boatwright sisters (Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo), who take her in and teach her about beekeeping, honey, and the Black Madonna. Lily also discovers that the truth about her mother is closer than she thinks. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 11, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: Hive

Ayşe returns to her hometown in northeastern Turkey to nurse her gravely ill mother. She promises to fulfill the dying woman's last wish: to care for her beloved bee farms. AKA Keeping the Bees. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 11, 2023 - 1 comment

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

Who Is Erin Carter?: Season One  Season 1, Ep 0

[TRAILER] Erin Carter (Evin Ahmad), a British teacher in Spain, finds herself caught up in a supermarket robbery. When one of the robbers claims to recognize her, her life threatens to unravel. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 7, 2023 - 13 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: Birth/Rebirth

[TRAILER] Rose (Marin Ireland) is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interaction. She also has an obsession -- the reanimation of the dead. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A.J. Lister). When one tragic night, Lila suddenly falls ill and dies, the two women's worlds crash into each other. They embark on a dark path of no return where they will be forced to confront how far they are willing to go to protect what they hold most dear. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 23, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Fresh Kill

[TRAILER] Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: High Art

[TRAILER] A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 3 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: 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 - 4 comments

Movie: Kotoko

When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 18, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Sweet Bean

[TRAILER] The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she’s hiding a troubling secret. Life’s joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 18, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 18, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

[TRAILER] Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josee. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 18, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Wuthering Heights

Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess. A jidaigeki adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 17, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: ICHI

[TRAILER] Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She's in search of the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 17, 2023 - 1 comment

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