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Book: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that's been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumours of dangerous loves and tragic passions. Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Jan 19, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Candy Cane Lane

[TRAILER] Chris Carver (Eddie Murphy), determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, makes a pact with an elf (Jillian Bell) to help him win. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of Christmas to life, bringing chaos to the small, unsuspecting town. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 9, 2024 - 5 comments

Florida Man: Sunk Costs  Season 1, Ep 7

Moss bails out Mike in an effort to retrieve the treasure from the truck -- once and for all. After picking up on a new clue, Mike seeks a fresh start. [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Jul 7, 2023 - 0 comments

Florida Man: Should We Talk About the Corn?  Season 1, Ep 6

An unwanted guest crashes Mike's family dinner and Patsy reaches a boiling point. Mike's attempt to corner Moss at Gil's boat takes an unexpected turn. [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Jul 7, 2023 - 0 comments

Florida Man: Please Don't Wake Up  Season 1, Ep 5

Iris receives a tempting offer. A fed-up Moss seeks answers. With Mike's words weighing on her, Patsy attempts to pull a risky move at the hospital. [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Jul 6, 2023 - 0 comments

Florida Man: One More Day  Season 1, Ep 4

After Moss sends an associate to tail Mike, Mike faces two options: Skip town or continue his own pursuit. A confrontation at the sinkhole heats up. [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Jul 6, 2023 - 0 comments

Florida Man: The Chain  Season 1, Ep 3

Mike's plans to retrieve the truck hit a snag when Sonny gets involved. In Philly, Iris attends a memorial service and gets intel on Mike's whereabouts. [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Jul 2, 2023 - 1 comment

The Bear: Season 2, Full Season  Season 2, Ep 0

From The Beef to The Bear, this season tears down the restaurant to build something entirely new and exciting. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Jun 24, 2023 - 44 comments

Top Chef: Holiday Vacation  Season 20, Ep 5

Following a quickfire involving cooking a celebratory dish with honey and mead, the cheftestants hit the road to a [sponsor name removed] vacation house in Kent to cook a family celebration dinner for their fellow chefs and judges. [more inside]
posted by Superilla on Apr 13, 2023 - 9 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000: MAC AND ME  Rewatch   Season 12, Ep 1

Rewatch! A disturbingly malleable, bubble-gum-like alien and their family get stuck on Earth and befriend a wheelchair-riding boy in this notable box-office failure. Chris Pratt seems to like it though! Season 12 ties Season 7 for the shortest season of MST3K. This is the first episode of "The Gauntlet," a series of MST3K episodes designed to be binged, although that'd be over nine hours of riffed film, so good luch surviving that. Unlike the previous episodes, I only posted each MST3K episode from Season 12 once, so less of a retread this time! Previously.
posted by JHarris on Mar 30, 2023 - 8 comments

Movie: Utama

In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them must face, each in their own way, the effects of a changing environment, the importance of tradition, and the meaning of life itself. [more inside]
posted by aniola on Feb 6, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: Around the World in Eighty Days

[TRAILER] Victorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman's club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days, further boasting that he will bet the princely sum of 20,000 pounds on the success of his endeavor. With his stalwart manservant Passepartout (Cantinflas) alongside, he goes forth on his adventure, pursued by a dogged Police Inspector (Robert Newton) who suspects Fogg of chicanery. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 23, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: The Greatest Show on Earth

[TRAILER] To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 18, 2023 - 1 comment

Leverage: Redemption: The Fractured Job  Season 2, Ep 6

Eliot backstory, fracking and poisoned water, Sophie self-doubt, and a guest appearance by Aldis Hodge as Hardison that's so lighthearted it's practically weightless.
posted by brainwane on Dec 6, 2022 - 5 comments

Movie: Strange World

[TRAILER] A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades: a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 2, 2022 - 11 comments

Movie: Z

A family finds themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 28, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: Petite Maman

[TRAILER] Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mother used to play and where she built the fort Nelly has heard so much about. One day, her mother suddenly leaves, and Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a fort. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 14, 2022 - 4 comments

Movie: Fanny and Alexander

Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 12, 2022 - 1 comment

Atlanta: Snipe Hunt  Season 4, Ep 7

Go nosing around in the Georgia woods at night, you never know what you might find. Maybe something ... special. [more inside]
posted by skoosh on Oct 22, 2022 - 6 comments

Movie: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

When the Primm family (Constance Wu, Scoot McNairy, Winslow Fegley) moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt. That changes when he discovers Lyle - a singing crocodile (Shawn Mendes) who loves baths, caviar and great music-living in the attic of his new home. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 14, 2022 - 1 comment

Abbott Elementary: Principal's Office  Season 2, Ep 4

When Gregory sends a disruptive student to Principal Ava's office, he learns that the students like spending time with Ava. Meanwhile, Melissa invites Janine over so she can learn how to cook, but Janine is hoping that Melissa and her sister can reunite.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit on Oct 13, 2022 - 4 comments

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Superhuman Law  Season 1, Ep 2

In the aftermath of Titania's defeat, Walters gains reputation as a new superhero dubbed "She-Hulk" by the public, much to her dismay. [more inside]
posted by Fleebnork on Aug 25, 2022 - 56 comments

Reply 1988: (aka Answer Me 1988) Eungdabhara 1988  Season 1, Ep 0

Reply 1988 centers on the lives of five families living in a small neighborhood in Seoul. No cell phones, just one TV in the main living area, and absurdly large family meals (frequently shared with the whole neighborhood). As with Hospital Playlist, Prison Playbook, and the rest of the Reply series, shows from this writer & director pair are about relationships; in Reply 1988 the relationships are between the childhood friends as they slowly mature, between parents & children, and across all the adults. It’s a slice of life drama, with a lot of comedy, romance, culture, and history mixed in. 20 episodes, most over 90 minutes. [more inside]
posted by kbar1 on Jun 21, 2022 - 2 comments

Our Blues: Our Blues  Season 1, Ep 0

Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju Island. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jun 13, 2022 - 2 comments

Book: When Women Were Dragons

A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman's place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. - The first adult novel by the Newbery award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon. [more inside]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit on Jun 12, 2022 - 4 comments

Top Chef: Family Vacation  Season 19, Ep 11

It’s time to hit the beach. The Chefs head to the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston Texas, but they won’t have any time to relax. Chef Shota Nakajima is here to present them with their next Quickfire Challenge: using the freshest gulf shellfish to create a seafood tower with one hot and one cold dish. Then, for the Elimination Challenge, Padma announces that along with alumni Sheldon Simeon and Adrienne Cheatham, the chefs will be feeding a family of special VIPs, who are expecting them to cater to some very specific tastes. [more inside]
posted by Superilla on May 16, 2022 - 7 comments

Movie: Turning Red

A 13-year-old girl named Mei Lee turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited. (IMDB)
posted by Countess Elena on Mar 11, 2022 - 24 comments

Book: Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

Journalist Mark Woods gets a grant to visit 12 US National Parks over a year to write about the future of the National Park System. Life throws in a curve ball as his mother gets a terminal cancer diagnosis early in the year. Part travelogue, part reflection on family, part essay on the past and future of the National Park Service, this was a really enjoyable book to read, especially in January when my camper is in winter storage.
posted by COD on Feb 9, 2022 - 0 comments

Eung-dab-ha-ra 1997: Reply 1997 (aka Answer Me 1997)  Season 1, Ep 0

Set in the 1990's, the drama centers around a female high school student Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T and her 5 high school friends in Busan. The timeline moves back and forth between their past as 18-year-old high schoolers in 1997 and their present as 33-year-olds at their high school reunion dinner in 2012, where one couple will announce that they're getting married. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Sep 27, 2021 - 2 comments

The Wonder Years: Pilot  Season 1, Ep 1

Struggling to figure out where he fits in, Dean decides to pursue his calling as "The Great Uniter" and attempts to organize the first integrated baseball game between his team and his friend Brad's team. (ABC reboot) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Sep 22, 2021 - 5 comments

Bluey: Season 2  Season 2, Ep 0

Follow the adventures of a family of Australian heeler dogs in what Vulture calls "the best kids' show of our time". Highlights include "Dance Mode", "Sleepytime", "Cafe", and "Granddad".
posted by Cash4Lead on Jun 2, 2021 - 6 comments

Movie: The Mitchells vs. the Machines

A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.
posted by m@f on Apr 30, 2021 - 25 comments

Movie: Samurai Rebellion

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back. [more inside]
posted by sapagan on Apr 21, 2021 - 0 comments

Resident Alien: Birds of a Feather  Season 1, Ep 4

“Birds of a Feather” is a beautiful love letter to family and community. The show is doing an excellent job of incorporating human-like nuances into Harry’s character. Little by little, he’s starting to acclimate to his surroundings and, well, become one of them. Naturally, this will provide fodder for internal conflict when Harry inevitably finds his device. Can he really decimate the planet after befriending some humans? (geekgirlauthority.com)
posted by sammyo on Mar 5, 2021 - 7 comments

Resident Alien: Secrets  Season 1, Ep 3

A fisherman finds a severed foot in the lake, [more inside]
posted by sammyo on Mar 3, 2021 - 11 comments

The Uncanny Counter: Season One  Season 1, Ep 0

Noodle shop employees by day and demon hunters by night, the Counters use special abilities to chase down malevolent spirits that prey on humans. Circumstances bring So Mun, a high school student, into their circle. [more inside]
posted by idb on Jan 31, 2021 - 6 comments

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Family  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 2

Captain Picard takes leave on Earth and visits his family while recovering from his assimilation into the Borg. Worf's Human parents visit the Enterprise and help him deal with his discommendation. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on Dec 21, 2020 - 22 comments

The Umbrella Academy: The Umbrella Academy season two (full season)  Season 2, Ep 0

Based on the comic book by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, the Hargreeves are back... in 1963, and have brought the apocalypse with them.
posted by bile and syntax on Aug 2, 2020 - 62 comments

Trying: Season One  Season 1, Ep 0

Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall) try to navigate the UK adoption system in this AppleTV+ original. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on May 9, 2020 - 1 comment

Better Call Saul: Bad Choice Road  Season 5, Ep 9

In the wake of Jimmy's traumatic misadventure, Kim takes stock of what is important. Jimmy attempts to return to business as usual, but it's more difficult than anticipated. Gus and Mike set a plan in motion. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 14, 2020 - 62 comments

Book: Here and Now and Then

Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Mar 12, 2020 - 2 comments

Everything's Gonna Be Okay: Seven-Spotted Ladybug; Greenbottle Blue Tarantula (Episodes 1 & 2)  Season 1, Ep 1

Nicholas' single dad has very bad cancer and he's going to die, soon. So Nicholas offers himself up to be the guardian for his two teenage half-sisters. What's the worst that can happen? / Nicholas wishes he could call an adult. After the death of their father, Nicholas, Matilda, and Genevieve struggle to return to their daily - and nightly - routines. (Freeform, US broadcast) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jan 16, 2020 - 7 comments

Movie: Brittany Runs a Marathon

A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.
posted by CMcG on Nov 30, 2019 - 6 comments

Movie: Knives Out

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death. [more inside]
posted by the primroses were over on Nov 23, 2019 - 190 comments

BoJack Horseman: The Face of Depression  Season 6, Ep 7

BoJack travels around the country reconnecting with loved ones, while Mr. Peanutbutter embarks on his own national tour as the face of depression. Princess Carolyn sets a new work-life balance.
posted by filthy light thief on Nov 1, 2019 - 4 comments

BoJack Horseman: The Kidney Stays in the Picture  Season 6, Ep 6

The assistants of Hollywoo go on strike. BoJack tries to help Doctor Champ. When Todd learns that his mother needs a kidney, Diane comes up with a plan. "Howdy, howdy! Welcome to Mike and Morgan's House of Organs! We handle all your matters, from keyboards to bladders."
posted by filthy light thief on Oct 31, 2019 - 4 comments

Lodge 49: The Door  Season 2, Ep 10

After the events of Mexico, the Lynx regroup at a revived Lodge and prepare for an important coronation. Liz goes for a swim. Connie has a secret. [Season finale.] [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Oct 15, 2019 - 12 comments

Lodge 49: Le Rêve Impossible  Season 2, Ep 9

In a foreign land, the Lynx search for the Grail and Ernie embraces his fate. Liz rides another gravy train to its end. "She's like some kind of magical, disgusting horse." Blammo. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Oct 8, 2019 - 10 comments

Lodge 49: Zugzwang  Season 2, Ep 8

Ernie and Dud meet a legend, who inspires them look deep within and embrace the zugzwang. Liz gets a promotion and Scott goes for a walk. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Oct 1, 2019 - 4 comments

Lodge 49: Exile  Season 2, Ep 7

Ernie sees someone from his past, hits rock bottom, and gets lucky. Liz goes to the mat for her employees, and is offered an opportunity. Connie is done being haunted by the end. Scott is released from his duty, and takes a drastic turn. Dud resumes his apprenticeship with Blaise. "I'll sleep when I wake up."
posted by filthy light thief on Sep 25, 2019 - 1 comment

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