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March 13
Special Event: Weekly Planet's riff of STAR WARS
That's the original Star Wars, and the theatrical cut I believe. The Weekly Planet is a pop culture discussion podcast, and your culture doesn't get much more pop than "A New Hope." A doofus moisture (a.k.a. "sweat") farmer leaves his hick planet to navigate a universe of robots, monsters, cabarets, wizards, smugglers, princesses and villains. Somehow he saves the universe. Here's their link to the audio of their riff ($1), released August 2015.
Movie: Elvis
[TRAILER] This John Carpenter-directed TV movie covers the life of Elvis Presley (Kurt Russell) from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas, but stopping there, a completely arbitrary point after which nothing bad happened. [more inside]
Movie: Sometimes Always Never
After reading Oliver Roeder's On the Insanity of Being a Scrabble Enthusiast, I wondered if there are any good Scrabble movies. Sometimes, Always, Never is about fathers and sons who play badly together. Bill Nighy plays a sophisticated tailor who‘s also an obsessive Scrabble grifter, setting up confidence games with strangers. [more inside]
March 12
Movie: Judge Dredd
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes. [more inside]
Movie: The Moon in the Gutter
He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they? [more inside]
Person of Interest: Most Likely To... Season 3, Episode 19
Reese and Shaw pose as alumni at a high school reunion in order to keep eyes on the latest POI. Meanwhile, Finch and Fusco travel to Washington, D.C., to investigate the motivations behind Vigilance’s latest attack. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: March 12, 2025 Season 6, Episode 24
Fresh from pulling off an excellent Revolution in Los Angeles -- at least three 5+ star matches and one overbooked main event -- Dynamite gathers reactions on the way to Dynasty, the next PPV in early April. An elimination tournament kicks off to find an opponent for new International champ Kenny Omega, Penelope Ford seeks to reverse a losing streak, and a big-man-little-luchador tag team match. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: The Tok'ra Part 1 Rewatch Season 2, Episode 11
Captain Samantha Carter has an intense dream in which she sees the mysterious Tok'ra Goa'Uld who briefly occupied her body. She finds out that Martouf and Jolinar were partners for a very long time. [more inside]
Movie: Quick Change
Bill Murray's only directing credit is this 1990 heist comedy, starring him and Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, and Jason Robards. (Justwatch.) Starts with Murray's character robbing a mid-Manhattan bank while dressed as a clown. Turns into a chase .... sort of. Also features Reg E. Cathey, Phil Hartman, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, and Kurtwood Smith, plus some grimy on-location bits of late-1980s New York City, a monster truck, a comparison of rental prices, and an assiduous city bus driver. Co-directed by Howard Franklin, who also wrote the screenplay (adapting it from a book).
The Wire: Soft Eyes Rewatch Season 4, Episode 2
"I still wake up white in a city that ain't." -Carcetti [more inside]
Movie: Dredd
[TRAILER] Mega City One is a vast, violent metropolis where felons rule the streets. The only law lies with cops called "judges," who act as judge, jury and executioner, and Dredd (Karl Urban) is one of the city's most feared. One day, Dredd is partnered with Cassandra (Olivia Thirlby), a rookie with powerful psychic abilities. A report of a terrible crime sends Dredd and Cassandra to a dangerous area controlled by Ma-Ma (Lena Headey), a drug lord who will stop at nothing to protect her empire. [more inside]
Daredevil: Born Again: The Hollow of His Hand Season 1, Episode 3
The trial of Hector Ayala begins. Fisk’s old business associates seek to claim his vacant mantle. [more inside]
March 11
Movie: Maelstrom
Long before Dune and Blade Runner 2049, long before LA, Denis Villeneuve made a movie in Quebec that mashed up kitchen-sink drama, dark humour, Tom Waits songs, and a narrator that is also a dying fish. [more inside]
Movie: Someone's Watching Me!
[TRAILER] Leigh Michaels (Lauren Hutton) rents a unit in a high-rise apartment building where the previous tenant committed suicide. She tries settling in, finding a boyfriend Paul (David Birney) and making fast friends with her lesbian co-worker Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau). Weird "prizes" from a supposed sweepstakes and strange calls begin to make her worried that someone in the neighborhood is out to get her. This TV movie was made immediately prior to Carpenter's theatrical hit Halloween and aired on NBC on November 29, 1978. [more inside]
Movie: Uncle Buck
[TRAILER] Buck Russell (John Candy), a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nieces (Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann) and nephew (Macaulay Culkin) after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice (Amy Madigan) and just about everyone else who crosses his path. [more inside]
Movie: Love Hurts
[TRAILER] Marvin Gable (Ke Huy Quan) is a realtor working the Milwaukee suburbs, where 'For Sale' signs bloom. He receives a crimson envelope from the mysterious Rose (Ariana DeBose), a former partner-in-crime that he had left for dead. She’s not happy. Marvin's brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu), a volatile crime lord, is hunting him, and he's not happy either. Marvin struggles to preserve his cozy new life, explore his connection with Rose, as killers come at him from all sides. [more inside]
Movie: The Aerial
The Aerial (”La Antena”) is an innovative Argentinian silent film from 2007, about a city that had lost its voice, and its only savior, a boy without eyes who ends up crucified on a 'Star of David'(?). It’s a surreal allegory in a German expressionism style, a weird black & white fantasy about mind control. A unique and inaccessible fairy tale. [more inside]
March 10
The Righteous Gemstones: Prelude Season 4, Episode 1
Yea, and there shall come extensive rending of garments and great gnashing of teeth as the word go out that this be, in the sight of Our Lord, the final season of this fine televisual saga; and far be it from me to spoil one high-definition frame of its magnificent debut, save to say that whatever you may be expecting, this is most likely not that thing.
Rome: E.P 6 'Egeria' Season 1, Episode 6
"Mark Antony is running Rome while Caesar pursues Pomey in the east, but when news comes that the tide has turned and that Pompey now pursue Caesar, Antony must decide whether to remain loyal to his old Commander or turn against him as Atia and Pompey wish. Pullo takes Octavian to a brothel; Atia offers Servilla an Olive branch; Vorenus and Niobe rediscover their intimacy, albeit briefly.
(from DVD header) [more inside]
Movie: Heaven Help Us
A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.
The Wire: Boys of Summer Rewatch Season 4, Episode 1
"Lambs to the slaughter here." -Marcia Donnelly [more inside]
Movie: Lowlifes
[TRAILER] The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead. [more inside]
Book: The End of All Things
Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more.
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
Doctor Odyssey: Shark Attack! Season 1, Episode 9
Max and Avery are at a crossroads as Avery faces a difficult pregnancy decision. Meanwhile, after Munroe is bitten by a shark, The Odyssey takes a dangerous detour to rescue a sinking boat, where a mysterious new passenger catches Max's eye. [more inside]
March 9
The White Lotus: Hide or Seek Season 3, Episode 4
Jaclyn's resort getaway with friends falls flat when the destination proves less exciting than expected. Meanwhile, Piper seeks support for a family announcement aboard a yacht, and Rick reveals his past to Chelsea. [more inside]
Movie: Birds Do It, Bees Do It
[Trailer] Mating rituals of animal life make for a fascinating documentary, from insects to mammals. [more inside]
Movie: Dead Ringers
[Trailer] Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. [more inside]
The Americas: The Frozen North Season 1, Episode 5
The Frozen North, where wolves and polar bears vie for food, hares outsmart lynx and walrus sing on rocky shores; as summer arrives, grouse perform mating dances, caribou migrate vast distances and salmon race upstream to survive. [more inside]
AEW Collision: March 8, 2025 Season 2, Episode 36
Daniel Garcia defends his TNT Championship for the second week in a row. Momo Watanabe shows off a day before Revolution by taking on Serena Deeb. Hologram and Dralistico put on a Lucha clinic. [more inside]
Movie: Colonel Redl
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception. [more inside]
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Mousetrap Season 2, Episode 3
Sarah and Derek are put to the test after Cromartie kidnaps Charley’s wife; John is in a sticky situation of his own when he finds himself caught between Cameron and Riley. [more inside]
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Automatic For The People Season 2, Episode 2
Sarah and Cameron take it upon themselves to investigate a nuclear power plant. John becomes less enthusiastic about academics, but flourishes socially with the help of a new friend. Meanwhile, Catherine Weaver gains another piece of the puzzle for her pet project. [more inside]
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Samson & Delilah Season 2, Episode 1
Rocked by the Jeep explosion, John’s 16th birthday forces him to confront the reality of his destiny alone. Meanwhile, Agent Ellison faces off with his faith and the Feds in the aftermath of Cromartie’s massacre, and a new player is introduced, Catherine Weaver, who is the CEO of a high-tech corporation. [more inside]
March 8
Movie: Monster
When a young boy begins behaving strangely, shocking truths emerge as the story unfolds through the eyes of his single mother, a teacher who is believed to be responsible, and the child himself. (Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda.) [more inside]
Movie: Io Island
A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a boat trip to promote the project, a journalist disappears under mysterious circumstances. One of the developers goes to Ieodo’s neighboring island, populated almost solely by haenyeo, women freedivers who harvest seafood, to investigate. Directed by Kim Ki-young (The Housemaid), this genre-bending bad-trip fairy tale of environmental destruction is among South Korea's most acclaimed films. It features a complex structure of layered flashbacks and a famously audacious ending. [more inside]
Movie: Mickey 17
Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
Movie: Homo Sapiens
This "documentary" is an eerie, wordless and scoreless vision of post-human abandonment. Without explanations and with a static camera, it visits deserted locations around the world years after the people had given up on them. Derelict concert halls, prison cells, bank vaults, cathedrals and train cabins, from Fukushima, and Chernobyl, and the many other disaster areas people have left behind, surrounding them to the elements, letting the birds and the rain and the weeds take over again. It’s hypnotic and transcendental. The trailer. [more inside]
March 7
Person of Interest: Allegiance Season 3, Episode 18
Finch and Reese must delve into the murky waters of international politics when they are given the number of a former government contractor who is stalking a UN diplomat. Also, an enemy attempts to gain an upper hand on Root. [more inside]
Movie: Dark Match
[TRAILER] A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match. [more inside]
Earth Abides: Earth Abides Books Included Season 1 (Full Season)
After months of isolation, Isherwood "Ish" Williams, learns that most of the world has fallen to a mysterious illness. Yet, despite his instincts to further isolate, Ish explores a depleted world. [more inside]
March 6
Reacher: Smackdown Season 3, Episode 5
When a DEA tragedy puts the entire mission at risk, Reacher, Duffy, and Villanueva improvise a drastic plan to save their cover.
Special Event: Ryan K. Johnson's Riff of STAR TREK V
Long ago, before MST3K Seasons 11-13, before The Mads Are Back, before Cinematic Titanic, and Rifftrax... before Master Pancake, Mister Sinus, Mystery Fandom Theater 3000 and FilmRoasters... before, yet, the Sci-Fi Channel era, even before Mike Nelson became host of the original show... possibly the first MST3K fanwork was Ryan K. Johnson's riff of Star Trek V, from 1992. 33 years old now! Made for friends, never distributed and hard to find. We arranged for a special showing and can vouch, Ryan and his friends have got the chops.
The Pitt: 4:00 PM Season 1, Episode 10
"I can't wait for this shift to be over." [more inside]
Severance: Sweet Vitriol Season 2, Episode 8
Discoveries are made. [more inside]
Movie: Killer Sofa
A killer reclining chair becomes enchanted by a girl and starts committing crimes of passion.
Tagline: Don't sit on the furniture [more inside]
March 5
Movie: Still of the Night
A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress. [more inside]
Special Event: 2nd annual NHL trade deadline post
Here be sadness and woe! [more inside]
Movie: Endorphine
After witnessing her mother's murder, young Québecois woman Simone becomes both profoundly emotionally damaged, and unstuck in time. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: March 5, 2025 Season 6, Episode 23
With four days left before Revolution, Adam Copeland hunts the last Death Rider standing between him and Jon Moxley. Swerve and Ricochet sign on the dotted line. A big tag match from the women's roster and a 4-on-4 match with the men's. [more inside]
Movie: The Menu
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Stargate SG-1: Bane Rewatch Season 2, Episode 10
O'Neill and the SG-1 team are attacked by giant insects as they explore planet BP6-3Q1. Teal'C is stung by the animals, and after returning through the stargate, a strange change happens to him. [more inside]
Movie: Central Station
"The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew." [more inside]
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: What He Beheld Season 1, Episode 9
Sarah finds herself in a business transaction with a mysterious business man. Meanwhile, Cromartie closes in on John and Agent Ellison discovers a nemesis at the agency. [more inside]
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Vick's Chip Season 1, Episode 8
Derek finds the brain chip from Vick that Cameron had kept. John builds an interface for it and they discover a computerized traffic system is important to Skynet. Sarah decides it must be sabotaged. Meanwhile, Cromartie is checking through school records in search of John. [more inside]
March 4
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Demon Hand Season 1, Episode 7
Paperwork from Sarah's time in Pescadero State Hospital leads her to Dr. Silberman. Ellison gets in deeper as he pursues recent leads. [more inside]
Daredevil: Born Again: Optics Season 1, Episode 2
Matt Murdoch gets a new client who’s more than he claims to be. Fisk learns the power of optics.
Daredevil: Born Again: Heaven’s Half Hour Season 1, Episode 1
Matt Murdoch gives up the mask. Wilson Fisk has his sights set to new heights. [more inside]
Person of Interest: Root Path / Season 3, Episode 17
The Machine assigns Root to seek out a janitor with a mysterious past, but when her very presence puts his life in danger, Finch also receives his number. [more inside]
Movie: Seance on a Wet Afternoon
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame. [more inside]
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Dungeons & Dragons Season 1, Episode 6
Flashing in and out of consciousness, fighting for his life, Derek Reese recalls his future life battling the machines in 2027. Meanwhile, Sarah tries to explain the past to Charley. [more inside]
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