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America's 7th Best Superhero Team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. We get to see one day in their lives as fan and new member Nightbird joins the group, just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 29, 2024 - 5 comments

Centers on 1980s films starring the 'Brat Pack' and their profound impact on the young stars' lives. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 20, 2024 - 10 comments

Marty Malt (Judd Nelson) is an unhappy garbage man who moonlights as an atrociously unfunny standup comic. He lives in a dark, grimy, garbage-strewn urban netherworld, where a company named Blump's apparently owns everything. His best friend and fellow trash collector, Gus (Bill Paxton), who accompanies him on accordion, eggs him on. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent (Wayne Newton), and it begins to look like his career is on the move. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 14, 2022 - 16 comments

The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Apr 26, 2018 - 5 comments

A tense mediation hosted on the Orville gets even more precarious when a key Union scientist turns out to be the blue alien Ed caught in bed with Kelly.
posted by Small Dollar on Nov 10, 2017 - 14 comments

An actor quits his successful TV law drama to live with his lawyer brother and possibly become a real lawyer.
posted by drezdn on Apr 17, 2016 - 5 comments

After failing to arrest up-and-coming criminal El Diablo Malo, Dazzle Novak is tasked to capture him in 5 days, or lose his #1 cop mug... for good. This until he discovers a new assignment, and this time, his heart is in charge. [more inside]
posted by lmfsilva on Sep 17, 2015 - 6 comments