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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

At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Apr 15, 2024 - 10 comments

I wanted to suggest this Franklin show (new on AppleTV), but that is NOT any of the "Franklin" options that come up on "verify show." I can't select the correct one and there isn't a "write something in" option.
posted by jenfullmoon on Apr 13, 2024 - 8 comments

A widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Jul 3, 2023 - 7 comments

The first season came out almost two and a half years ago. Netflix quickly renewed it, but then the world sort of shut down for a little while there. The second season moves even farther beyond the original source material to adapt Dr. Seuss's The Butter Battle Book (which already got a Ralph Bakshi version way back during the Cold War). [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Apr 13, 2022 - 0 comments

Nick Fury struggles to launch The Avengers when candidates are targeted by a serial killer. [more inside]
posted by Karmakaze on Aug 25, 2021 - 50 comments

A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Feb 15, 2021 - 24 comments

On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. He goes to a convenience store and tries to get some change for a phone call, but the Korean owner does not oblige, tipping Foster over the edge. The unstable Foster, so frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
posted by growabrain on May 6, 2020 - 17 comments

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) famously wrote Green Eggs and Ham using only 50 words to win a bet with Bennett Cerf. Netflix is estimated to have spent more than a million times that on this 13-episode series, cramming it full of stars like Oscar-winners Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton, Tony-winner Daveed Diggs as a mouse, John Turturro as a goat, and Eddie Izzard as the Trumpian villain. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Dec 1, 2019 - 3 comments

A mentally ill clown is lured into a life-or-death rock-paper-scissors tournament by the chance to clear his debts. No, seriously: that is the plot. A Mandarin language adaptation of a Japanese manga. Directed by Yan Han (Go Away, Mr. Tumor) and starring Yi Feng Li, Dongyu Zhou, and Michael Douglas.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 29, 2019 - 6 comments

When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on May 28, 2018 - 4 comments

A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved. Vertigo, it ain't. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 15, 2018 - 13 comments

CRFC9: Nicholas Van Orton is a "man who has everything", but who seems to be missing a key piece of himself. On his 48th birthday, his wayward brother Conrad shows up for dinner, and gives Nicholas a card that's good for one free session with Consumer Recreation Services. And so begins The Game. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Jan 20, 2015 - 15 comments