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June 14
Resident Alien: The Lonely Man Season 4, Episode 2
Harry and Asta work together to try and get something Harry desperately needs.
June 13
Movie: Gunslingers
In a town named Redemption, reformed gunslinger Keller and mad genius Ben are guided by spiritual leader Jericho towards vindication. While confronting their violent histories, their newfound peace is challenged by violence and re... [more inside]
Top Chef: Finito Season 22, Episode 14
For their last challenge of the season, the final three chefs must create the best progressive four-course meal of their lives. With the help of their sous chefs, the finalists must pull out all the stops to impress an esteemed table of diners, including chef Carlo Cracco, “Top Chef” alums Richard Blais and Gregory Gourdet, and Hunter Lewis, Editor-In-Chief of Food & Wine magazine. At the judges’ table, Kristen, Tom and Gail are joined by and award-winning chef Clare Smyth to determine who will be named the next “Top Chef” and take home the largest prize package in show history. [more inside]
June 12
Poker Face: The Sleazy Georgian Season 2, Episode 8
Charlie falls in with a group of con artists running a classic scam. Guest stars include John Cho and Melanie Lynskey.
Blakes 7: Cygnus Alpha Rewatch Season 1, Episode 3
Blake is given a new hope (as it were) with the discovery of a mysterious alien vessel of incredible advanced capabilities, the Liberator. Avon and Jenna thrill to the possibilities, but Blake is having none of it: they have to go to Cygnus Alpha and rescue the others. But BRIAN BLESSED HAS OTHER PLANS.
Murderbot: Command Feed Show Only Season 1, Episode 6
A critical setback sends the team into a spiral. Mensah rolls the dice on a tricky procedure. LeeBeeBee changes her tune.
Murderbot: Command Feed Books Included Season 1, Episode 6
A critical setback sends the team into a spiral. Mensah rolls the dice on a tricky procedure. LeeBeeBee changes her tune.
Movie: Tron
A computer hacker and his friends plot a daring intrusion into a computer system that grows steadily stronger. [more inside]
Special Event: Weekly Planet's Commentary of INDEPENDENCE DAY
MST Club presents.... Hey, you know a movie I've always thought was grossly overrated? Independence Day, or "ID4" according to their flummoxing marketing. It's supposed to be inspiring in how it has the whole world coming together to fight against an alien menace through the power of their indomitable spirit and their Apple products, but the main characters, a diverse company of stereotypes to be sure, are still Americans, and it's the US President who tells those other countries that they'll now celebrate July 4th too. Strikes me all wrong, I say! And I haven't even gotten into how Computery Guy writes a virus for a platform that not only he's never seen before, but neither has anyone on Earth. Anyway, i now conclude this kvetch. Please enjoy Weekly Planet's commentary on this very goofy, not at all inspiring movie. Riff recorded June 2016.
Movie: Materialists
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. Starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal. Directed and written by Celine Song.
Movie: Bergman Island
Married film-making couple Vicky Krieps & Tim Roth spend the summer at Ingmar Bergman's island Fårö, to each write screenplays for their upcoming films. "As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape." The trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Pavements
[TRAILER] Alex Ross Perry’s slippery experimental mockumentary about the American indie rock band Pavement is split into several competing segments: there’s a biopic being filmed called Range Life: A Pavement Story, a jukebox musical ramping up known as Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical, the conceiving of a museum exhibition of their archives named “Pavements 1933-2022: A Pavement Museum,” and a 2022 reunion tour which will welcome their first shows together since 2010. Only half of these events are real. But each collides and blends with one another, mixing and confusing fact and fiction, performance and sincerity, artifice and naturalism. It's fucking Pavement. [more inside]
June 11
Person of Interest: Point of Origin Rewatch Season 4, Episode 8
Reese volunteers as an NYPD police academy instructor in order to keep an eye on a talented young officer whose suspicious actions make him question her motives. Meanwhile, Martine - armed with information from Samaritan - hunts a member of the team. [more inside]
AEW Collision: June 11, 2025: Summer Blockbuster, Part 2 Season 2, Episode 50
Continuation of tonight's four-hour event that began here.
Movie: The Retirement Plan
[Trailer] When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to estranged father Matt, currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands. [more inside]
Movie: The Surfer
[Trailer] A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: June 11, 2025: Summer Blockbuster, Part 1 Season 6, Episode 37
For sports-related reasons (I think?) this week, Dynamite and Collision will once again air as a four-hour block on Wednesday, so AEW leans into the movie theme by having "Timeless" Toni Storm battle Julia Hart, Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay get a sequel to ratchet up their love/hate triangle before All In, and a teaser contract signing for Okada/Omega. [more inside]
Movie: Brainstorm
Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds. But when people involved bring their personal problems into the equation, it becomes dangerous - perhaps deadly. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Seth Rewatch Season 3, Episode 2
Sam's father hopes that SG-1 can help find and neutralize Seth, an Ancient Goa'uld who the Tok'ra believe may still be hiding on Earth after thousands of years. [more inside]
Book: Inferno: Canto 03
Dante goes through a gate to eternal sorrow. [more inside]
Movie: High Fidelity
[TRAILER] Rob (John Cusack) owns a record store in Chicago. Although he and his staff (Jack Black, Todd Louiso) have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and are consumed by the music scene, it's of no help to Rob, whose needle skips the groove when his long-time girlfriend, Laura (Iben Hjejle), leaves him. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood. [more inside]
June 10
Blakes 7: Space Fall Rewatch Season 1, Episode 2
Blake and his new friends are bound for the prison world Cygnus Alpha -- provided their amoral jailers don't just kill them on the way. All seems lost...but...
Blakes 7: The Way Back Rewatch Season 1, Episode 1
Far in the future, an ordinary man named Blake discovers to his dawning horror that he is an enemy of the tyrannical federation, the oppressive government under which he lives his little life. He did...something to earn their ire, but he can't remember what. Nevertheless, he will pay the price. [more inside]
Movie: Gorillas in the Mist
[TRAILER] The true story of occupational therapist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) who leaves the United States for the Congo. The legendary Louis Leakey has put her to work cataloging and study endangered mountain gorillas. As Fossey develops a bond with the animals, she also becomes wary of the poachers who prey on them. [more inside]
Movie: A woman at war
"Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life." [more inside]
June 9
Resident Alien: Prisoners Season 4, Episode 1
Harry must escape an outer space prison to stop a dangerous threat in town.
Movie: Department Q: The Absent One
A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. [more inside]
Book: The River Has Roots
The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death.
The audiobook features music performed by the author and her sister, Dounya El-Mohtar with Amal and Dounya on harp, flute, and vocals; and songs sung by the narrator, Gem Carmella. [more inside]
Movie: Prophecy
[TRAILER] During a dispute between a logging operation and nearby Native American tribes, EPA scientist Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to conduct an environmental report. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the... Interrupting this IMDB summary here to get to the point: this is a mutant bear movie. It has John Foxworth, Talia Shire, and Armand Assante (as a native American!) in it, a decent budget, John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) as the director, and some moderately sincere ideas, but it is nevertheless a movie with Kevin Peter Hall (the guy who played the Predator in Predator) running around in a mutant bear suit. [more inside]
Movie: Predator: Killer of Killers
An animated telling of the predator aliens hunting on Earth from the age of the Vikings to the battlefield oceans of the Second World War. [more inside]
Book: Murder Must Advertise
Poor Victor Dean has fallen down the spiral staircase and broken his head. Lord Peter plays a long role, drug gangs make an appearance, the advertising office is full of interesting personalities, the harlequin dives, and it helps if you love cricket. This book can be read for free here.
Book: The Bombshell by Darrow Farr
Corsica, 1993. As a sun-drenched Mediterranean summer heads into full swing, beautiful and brash seventeen-year-old Séverine Guimard is counting down the days until graduation, dreaming of stardom while smoking cigarettes, and seducing boys in her class to pass the time. The pampered French American daughter of a politician, Séverine knows she’s destined for bigger things.
That is, until one night, Séverine is snatched off her bike by a militant trio fighting for Corsican independence and held for a large ransom. When the men fumble negotiating her release, the four become unlikely housemates deep in the island’s remote interior. Eager to gain the upper hand, Séverine sets out to charm her captors, and soon the handsome, intellectual leader, Bruno, the gentle university student, Tittu, and even the gruff, unflappable Petru grow to enjoy the company of their headstrong hostage.
As Séverine is exposed to the group’s politics, they ignite something unexpected within her, and their ideas begin to take root. With her flair for the spotlight and newfound beliefs, Séverine becomes the face of a radical movement for a global TV audience. What follows is a summer of passion and terror, careening toward an inevitable, explosive conclusion, as Séverine steps into the biggest role of her life.
from the publisher's site
June 7
A Gentleman in Moscow: Adieu Season 1, Episode 8
Alexander and Anna devise a plan for their own as well as Sophia's escape. [more inside]
Movie: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
An assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets out to seek revenge after her father's death. [more inside]
Movie: Karate Kid: Legends
After kung fu prodigy Li Fong relocates to New York City, he attracts unwanted attention from a local karate champion and embarks on a journey to enter the ultimate karate competition with the help of Mr. Han and Daniel LaRusso.
Dept. Q: Dept Q. Season 1 (Full Season)
A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases. [more inside]
June 6
Murderbot: Rogue War Tracker Infinite Books Included Season 1, Episode 5
PresAux goes all out to make progress. Trust issues create friction, while a DeltFall survivor becomes part of the group.
Murderbot: Rogue War Tracker Infinite Show Only Season 1, Episode 5
PresAux goes all out to make progress. Trust issues create friction, while a DeltFall survivor becomes part of the group.
Top Chef: Viva Milano! Season 22, Episode 13
Benvenuto a Milano! For the chefs’ last Quickfire Challenge of the season, they’re tasked with creating a classic Milanese dish and the most feared dish by many “Top Chef” contenders, risotto. Then the chefs compete in a three-part, head-to-head culinary battle while receiving some help from Olympic athletes Elana Meyers Taylor, Red Gerard, and Paralympic athletes Oksana Masters and Declan Farmer. Kristen, Tom and Gail are joined at judges’ table by two-star Michelin chef Andrea Aprea and “Top Chef” World All-Star alum Ali Ghzawi. With four chefs remaining and only three spots in the finale, the stakes have never been higher. [more inside]
Poker Face: One Last Job Season 2, Episode 7
Sam Richardson plays a likable nerd so well, but this guest star appearance on Poker Face goes horribly wrong for his heist movie obsessed big box store clerk Kendall. Meanwhile Charlie gets to play out parts of her own romantic comedy.
June 5
Mystery Science Theater 3000: KTMA episode 15: SUPERDOME Season 1, Episode 28
Tonight we're doing another episode from Mystery Science Theater 3000's shadowly prehistory, the KTMA season. SUPERDOME is generally about the Superbowl in New Orleans, but it's more about trying to catch a murderer at large while that's going on. It has Tom Selleck, and it was made for television. Deal with it. Episode premiered March 12, 1989.
Movie: Highway 61
IMDB: A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.
The spiritual sequel to Roadkill, with the aformentioned barber and his (pre-this-term-being-coined) manic pixie dream friend pursued by the soul-collecting Mr. Skin, and featuring memorable cameos from Jello Biafra and Tav Falco. [more inside]
Book: Have His Carcase
A cut throat, a persistent lover, a distinct lack of telephones along the English seashore are some of the many things that plague mystery author Harriet Vane, who stumbles on a corpse during what is supposed to be a peaceful walking holiday.
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth. The book can be read for free here.
Movie: RoboCop 2
[TRAILER] Cyborg Detroit policeman Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is the sole officer on duty after the police force goes on strike against evil conglomerate Omni Consumer Products and its push to foreclose on the city of Detroit. Aside from dealing with the normal level of crime, Murphy must take on crime boss Cain (Tom Noonan), the spread of a dangerous new drug called Nuke and the attempt by psychologist Dr. Juliette Faxx (Belinda Bauer) to create another Robocop using a hardened criminal. [more inside]
Book: Inferno: Canto 02
A kind lady tells Lucy to tell Beatrice to tell Virgil to be Dante's guide. [more inside]
June 4
AEW Collision: June 4, 2025: Fyter Fest, Hours 3 & 4 Season 2, Episode 49
Continuation of the four-hour AEW event that began here.
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: June 4, 2025: Fyter Fest, Hours 1 & 2 Season 6, Episode 36
Because the competition is running two, yes two PPVs on Saturday, Tony Khan made the wise decision to stack all four hours of programming on Wednesday instead. Kenny by-god Omega will defends his International title against three others simultaneously, Mark Briscoe tries to get even with Jon Moxley, THEKLA makes her official debut and lots and lots of tag team action. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Into the Fire Rewatch Season 3, Episode 1
Imprisoned on Hathor's planet and with time quickly running out, the team must grasp their only way of escape. [more inside]
June 3
Movie: Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic
Long-beloved as the great Scream Queen of Asian cinema, Suzzanna remains virtually unknown to western audiences. Discover the bizarre true story of an enigmatic film star known for portraying vengeful spirits and demons whose supernatural retribution are widely believed to have influenced her controversial life and mysterious death. [more inside]
June 2
Top Chef: Foraged in Fire Season 22, Episode 12
For their last challenge in Canada, Kristen is joined by guest judges Brenda Holder and Tracy Little, who teach the remaining five chefs how to forage the ingredients in the Canmore Forest. To secure their spot in Italy, the chefs will have to impress the judges by utilizing their foraged items in a dish they will cook outside over an open flame. [more inside]
Book: The Five Red Herrings
Artists and murder in Scotland. Sayers tries her hand at the classic time-table style mystery, to varying degrees of success. It can be read for free here.
June 1
AEW Collision: May 31, 2025 Season 2, Episode 48
Basketball pushed this pre-recorded Collision to air after 11PM Eastern. The final two entrants into this Wednesday's four-way match for Kenny Omega’s International title are decided, including a showcase of CMLL talent. Anthony Bowens gets a shot at Okada's Continental Championship, and Mina Shirakawa faces Skye Blue. [more inside]
May 31
Doctor Who: The Reality War Season 2, Episode 8
Battle rages across the skies as the Unholy Trinity unleash their deadly ambition. The Doctor, Belinda and Ruby have to risk everything in the quest to save one innocent life. [more inside]
A Gentleman in Moscow: An Assembly Season 1, Episode 7
Russia is on the brink of another major change, and Alexander is confronted with a difficult choice about the future. [more inside]
Movie: Mountainhead
Jesse Armstrong in his directorial debut, his first effort after 'Succession'. Four megalomaniac tech-bros, including a Musk, a Thiel, and a Zuck gather for a weekend at the Lair. The world is imploding and they react with an unexpected twist.
Special Event: 🚨🗳️🗳️ Joining the MetaFilter Board (FF)🗳️ 🗳️🚨
Hi, all. Metafilter is electing a new Board to run the site and replace its Interim Board.
Currently we have a three member Board, but the new Bylaws being discussed and amended here include a possible range of 3-12 members. While we're figuring exact details (like the process for holding an election being discussed here), it would be helpful to know how many MeFites are interested in running for a seat on this new board. If that interests you, please declare your intentions in this MetaTalk thread. Note: declaring interest is not a commitment to serve on the Board.
Book: Inferno: Canto 01
Dante is lost in a dark wood. [more inside]
May 30
And Just Like That...: Let's talk about the full season on HBO-HBO Max-Max-HBO Season 3 (Full Season)
When last we left our gang, Carrie had agreed to wait 5 years (!!) for Aidan, Miranda was exploring life as a single lesbian, and Charlotte was succeeding as a gallerina. Some new friends had settled into the group, and others faded away (Che, sorry, good riddance). [more inside]
Book: The Incandescent
Dr Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions. It's her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe.
From Hugo and World Fantasy Award winner Emily Tesh, author of Some Desperate Glory. The Incandescent is a modern day magic school novel from a teacher's perspective.
Book: Strong Poison
Salcombe Hardy, lifting his drowned-violet eyes for a moment from his reporter's note-book, scribbled two words on a slip of paper and pushed them over to Waffles Newton. "Judge hostile." Waffles nodded. They were old hounds on this blood-trail.
Author of detective stories Harriet Vane is on trial for her life. Peter Wimsey works frantically to prove she didn't murder her lover to save her from the noose.
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