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A cash-strapped Nicolas Cage agrees to make a paid appearance at a billionaire super fan's birthday party, but is really an informant for the CIA since the billionaire fan is a drug kingpin and gets cast in a Tarantino movie. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Apr 26, 2022 - 15 comments

An unexpected eyewitness emerges to help Detective Danner piece together the true story behind Xavier's demise. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Mar 4, 2022 - 19 comments

Everyone's stories trace back to a high school party 15 years ago, which Walt recounts to Detective Danner--revealing huge secrets. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Feb 11, 2022 - 11 comments

Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with writer/director Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past
posted by carmicha on Sep 27, 2021 - 3 comments

An African American washerwoman rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire. (Netflix, 4 episodes, adapted from the book 'On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker' by A’Lelia Bundles, Walker’s great-great-granddaughter) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 20, 2020 - 2 comments

Tiffany Haddish has a new Netflix special. She hilariously discusses her Eritrean father, homelessness, life as a foster, yeast infections, and lazy strippers. As she puts it, "I know my purpose, I'm here to teach. Maybe it's not the proper way to teach, but fuck it, you're going to learn today."
posted by Stanczyk on Dec 4, 2019 - 1 comment

Zach Galifianakis and his oddball crew take a road trip to complete a series of high-profile celebrity interviews. Come for the cameos. Stay for the credits. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Sep 21, 2019 - 17 comments

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Aug 11, 2019 - 9 comments

An ex-felon is shocked to see just how much the world has changed when he is released from prison for good behavior after a 15-year stint and returns to his newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 7, 2018 - 1 comment

Paget Brewster tells the story of Deborah Sampson (Evan Rachel Wood), the first woman to take a bullet for America, Tiffany Haddish goes with Rose Valland (Busy Philipps), a museum curator who recorded the whereabouts of art plundered by the Nazis in Vichy France and Amber Ruffin selects Clara Barton (Mandy Moore), founder of the American Red Cross.
posted by lmfsilva on Jan 23, 2018 - 14 comments

Host: Tiffany Haddish, Musical Guest: Taylor Swift [more inside]
posted by DizzyOnBugSpray on Nov 11, 2017 - 21 comments