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[TRAILER] After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 3, 2024 - 5 comments

Despair hangs heavy over the house of the Bates family. Young Pattie (Suzanna Hamilton) twitches and groans her days away in bed, the victim of a terrible auto accident years ago, while her poor old mum Norma (Joan Plowright) struggles to attend to the afflicted girl's needs and the sour patriarch of the house (Denholm Elliot) prowls the halls muttering about God ("He's a vicious old bugger!"). One day things are shaken up by the arrival of Martin, (Sting) a charming young rogue of mysterious and possibly mystical origins... [more inside]
posted by Ursula Hitler on Jun 25, 2024 - 9 comments

[TRAILER] Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld), a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa (Renée Zellweger), a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 11, 2023 - 7 comments

The gang gets hired to work a laid-back radio promotion luau in Malibu, Calif.; things get weird as they decide to take mushrooms together.
posted by onya on Mar 26, 2023 - 5 comments

Both versions are fantastic but Tim Meadows excels in the US version. The second US season just dropped. Any interest in a discussion or comparison of the two versions?
posted by jojo and the benjamins on Nov 28, 2018 - 1 comment

This week:

• The summit with North Korea is called off. North Korea sends Trump a message in an oversized envelope. Trump calls the summit back on. Trump admits he hadn't read the contents of the envelope. Leader of the greatest nation in the world, folks.
• Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is declared to be dead on worldwide news, but then discovered to be alive, his faked death an element in a sting to catch a group of Russian assassins.
• In the UK, the chairman of the British Monarchists Society, one "Thomas J. Mace-Archer-Mills, Esq.," a fixture on TV during the royal wedding, is revealed to actually to have been born and lived to his teens in the US, and even got an unrelated elderly British couple to call themselves his grandparents.
• And Now: The Very British Put-Downs of Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow.
• Main story: Legal guardianship, a state under which senior citizens can be put where they have limited rights, and can find it difficult to get out of.

The main story (16 minutes long) is available on YouTube. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Jun 7, 2018 - 6 comments