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May 17
Movie: Drop
[Trailer] A widowed mother's first date in years takes a terrifying turn when she's bombarded with anonymous threatening messages on her phone during their upscale dinner.
Doctor Who: The Interstellar Song Contest Season 2, Episode 6
The Doctor's mission to return Belinda to Earth brings them to a space station's song competition. What starts as entertainment turns into a fight for survival. [more inside]
Movie: 40 Acres
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia. [more inside]
Movie: Final Destination: Bloodlines
[TRAILER] Plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, a college student returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them. the long-running horror series returns with a big budget entry that promises to tie all of the films together. [more inside]
Special Event: Eurovision 2025: The Grand Final
Good evening, Europe! Good morning, Australia! It’s the big day! The Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is today, May 17th, at 21:00 CEST/3:00 PM EDT. Come on in to discuss the highs, the lows, and the grand spectacle that can only be Eurovision. [more inside]
May 16
Person of Interest: Honor Among Thieves Rewatch Season 4, Episode 7
Shaw joins a team of international thieves in order to keep tabs on the latest POI, but an unexpected turn of events puts her in danger of being detected by Samaritan. Also, Finch and Root undertake a dangerous sabotage mission. [more inside]
Movie: Roadkill
IMDB: A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
The ur-Canadian-Indie film: Bruce McDonald takes us on a whimsical, meandering odyssey across Northern Ontario with a missing band, a mute weiner salesman, a budding serial killer, and indie rockers the Leslie Spit Tree-o and bandaged rock god Nash the Slash perform. [more inside]
Top Chef: From Dep Till Dawn Season 22, Episode 10
Comedian Punkie Johnson tests the chefs’ creativity for the Quickfire Challenge when they’re asked to create a dish using only the items and tools found in a Canadian convenience store. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs pay homage to the four seasons using only produce from Montreal’s rooftop gardens. Renowned Montreal chef Antonio Park joins Kristen, Tom and Gail at the judges’ table. [more inside]
May 15
The Studio: CinemaCon Season 1, Episode 9
"I had a lobster. His name was Stewart..." What happened in Vegas, whether it's 'Swingers' or 'The hangover', ends up with an “old-school Hollywood buffet”. Episode 9, which is a full-blown homage to 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas' is their funniest yet.
Murderbot: FreeCommerce & Eye Contact Season 1, Episode 1
This is a show-only thread; the first two episodes dropped. ep 1: "On a fresh assignment, Murderbot's newfound free will leads to odd behavior, sparking suspicion from the PreservationAux team." / ep 2: "Mensah and Bharadwaj risk everything to investigate a mysterious region. Gurathin goes toe-to-toe with Murderbot."
The first season is roughly based on "All Systems Red", the first Murderbot book from Martha Wells.
Poker Face: The Taste of Human Blood Season 2, Episode 4
Charlie gets involved in animal liberation in Florida and ends up as a cater waiter at a cop awards ceremony. Guest stars include Kumail Nanjiani, Gaby Hoffman and our first encounter with Steve Buscemi. [more inside]
Special Event: Weekly Planet's Commentary on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
MST Club presents... Weekly Planet, the pop culture podcast, did a commentary on the original Star Wars that appeared here a little while ago. Here is their commentary on the movie that came after it. The hick sweat farmer from the first movie saved the universe, but the bad people, including their fearsome walking PEZ dispenser, didn't like him or his friends doing that, and launch a counterattack. Meanwhile the moisture farmer learns to be a wizard from the great Grover the Wise.
Movie: Walking Tall
[TRAILER] Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser (the late Joe Don Baker) walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs. [more inside]
Special Event: Live Stream: Semifinal 2 (2025 Eurovision Song Contest)
Good evening, Europe! Good morning, Australia! Live from Basel, Switzerland, Semifinal 2 begins Thursday, May 15th (today) at 21:00 CEST / 3:00pm EDT. Who will qualify for the Grand Final on Saturday? Which countries will be good, bad, or so bad they're good? Come on in to chat about the second round of performances! [more inside]
May 14
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: May 14, 2025 - Beach Break Season 6, Episode 33
AEW returns to the Sears Centre NOW Arena in Chicago (usually a receptive town for the brand) to have the World Championship settled in a cage, while Toni Storm takes on a harem, MJF gets his final answer, and Ricochet has a third leg. [more inside]
Movie: Parallel
[TRAILER] Vanessa (Danielle Deadwyler), her husband Alex (Aldis Hodge), and his brother Martel (Edwin Hodge) spend a weekend at the family lake house on the anniversary of a family tragedy. Upon ducking out to clear her head on a solo hike, Vanessa finds that the area is the nexus of a group of parallel worlds, each of which features a version of her family and life that is different and often dangerous in its own way. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Show and Tell Rewatch Season 2, Episode 20
A boy calling himself Charlie tells the SG team that the Goa'Uld have destroyed his planet Reetalia. His mother created Charlie to serve as a mediator between the Reetou and the humans. [more inside]
Movie: Moon Garden
[TRAILER] A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother's voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness. [more inside]
Movie: O.C. and Stiggs
[TRAILER] O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against them. They seek revenge against the affluent Schwab family, who embody all they detest: excess. Director Robert Altman adapts a series of stories from National Lampoon magazine into a cynical parody of the 80's teen movie. Shot in 1983, but not released theatrically until 1987. [more inside]
Andor: Jedha, Kyber, Erso Season 2, Episode 12
Cassian returns to Yavin with intel that will change everything. [more inside]
Andor: Who Else Knows? Season 2, Episode 11
Cassian returns to Coruscant for one last extraction. StarWars.com episode guide.
Andor: Make It Stop Season 2, Episode 10
Lonni Jung taps out. Dedra closes in. Luthen scrambles. Kleya delivers. StarWars.com episode guide.
May 13
Hacks: Season 4 Season 4 (Full Season)
Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) finally has her late night talk show. Can she find a working relationship with her mentee/nemesis and head writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder)?
Movie: Daughters of Darkness
[Trailer] While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide. [more inside]
Book: Unnatural Death
An overheard conversation leads to the story of Agatha Dawson, who may or may not have been hastened to her death. Lord Peter and Miss Climpson investigate.
The book can be read for free here.
Movie: The ABCs of Death
[TRAILER] A 26-segment horror anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty, with segments by Nacho Vigalondo, Angela Bettis, Nobouro Iguchi, Timo Tjahjanto, Ti West, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, Xavier Gens and others. [more inside]
The Handmaid's Tale: Exodus Season 6, Episode 8
June and Moira execute their dangerous plan. Serena makes a big commitment.
Movie: The Sacrament
[TRAILER] A. J. Bowen and Joe Swanberg play VICE journalists who document their co-worker's (Kentucker Audley) attempt to locate his sister (Amy Seimetz) after she joins a reclusive religious commune under the control of the enigmatic Father (Gene Jones). The film's plot is inspired by the real-life events of the Jonestown Massacre of 1978. [more inside]
Book: Sky Daddy
Linda is doing her best to lead a life that would appear normal to the casual observer. Weekdays, she earns $20 an hour moderating comments for a video-sharing platform, then rides the bus home to the windowless garage she rents on the outskirts of San Francisco. But on the last Friday of each month, she indulges her true passion, taking BART to SFO for a round-trip flight to a regional hub. The destination is irrelevant, because each trip means a new date with a handsome stranger—a stranger whose intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages, and powerful engines make Linda feel a way that no human ever could. . . . Linda knows that she can’t tell anyone she’s sexually obsessed with planes. Nor can she reveal her belief that it’s her destiny to “marry” one of her suitors, uniting with her soulmate plane for eternity. But when an opportunity arises to hasten her dream of eternal partnership, and the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of control, she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy and launching herself headlong toward the love she’s always dreamed of .... Both subversive and unexpectedly heartwarming, Sky Daddy hijacks the classic love story, exploring desire, fate, and the longing to be accepted for who we truly are. [source] [more inside]
May 12
Special Event: Live Stream: Semifinal 1 (2025 Eurovision Song Contest)
Good evening, Europe! Good morning, Australia! Live from Basel, Switzerland, Semifinal 1 begins Tuesday May 13th (today) at 21:00 CEST / 3:00pm EDT. Who will qualify for the Grand Final on Saturday? Which countries will be good, bad, or so bad they're good? Come on in to chat about the first round of performances! [more inside]
Movie: Shadow Force
An estranged couple with a bounty on their heads must go on the run with their son to avoid their former employer, a unit of shadow ops that has been sent to kill them. [more inside]
The Rehearsal: Kissme Season 2, Episode 4
"[T]he actors' choice of how and when to become intimate intrigued me."
Movie: Aferim!
[TRAILER] 1835. A crusty lawman and his naive son mount their horses and set off to retrieve a runaway slave for a wealthy landowner. It's an old school black & white Western, but this isn't the West. This is Wallachia 1835 and constable Costandin and his son Ioniță have been hired by the boyar to capture Roma slave Carfin. Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude gives us a rigidly hierarchical world where abuse flows steadily downward and obsequiousness flows steadily upward. Costandin is very comfortable in this hierarchy, but his son isn't entirely sure. [more inside]
May 11
The Last of Us: Episode 5 Books Included Season 2, Episode 5
[Placeholder until HBO releases the dang episode titles+descriptions] [more inside]
The Last of Us: Episode 5 Show Only Season 2, Episode 5
[Placeholder until HBO releases the dang episode titles+descriptions] [more inside]
May 10
Doctor Who: The Story and the Engine Season 2, Episode 5
In Lagos, a mysterious figure called the Barber rules. The Doctor finds stories hold real power as he confronts the Spider weaving a vengeful web. [more inside]
Movie: Ocean with David Attenborough
Attenborough explores the planet's undersea habitats, revealing the greatest age of ocean discovery and emphasizing the ocean's vital importance while exposing its problems and highlighting opportunities for marine life recovery.
May 9
Poker Face: Whack-a-Mole Season 2, Episode 3
Charlie's unique talent comes to play in helping identify a rat, or maybe it's a mole? Guest starring John Mulaney, Richard Kind and Rhea Perlman. [more inside]
Movie: The Ugly Stepsister
In a vaguely medieval fantasy kingdom, the hideous Elvira (an IRL fashion model who has I guess been made unspeakably ugly by, like, having braces and not combing her hair...look, I said this was a fantasy, didn't I?) competes with her stepsister, Cinderel--um, Agnes, for the love of a prince. And to win it, Elvira is willing to endure a lot of Unrated Horror Movie Pain, and she does not care how gross it is. Spoiler: Very Gross.
Poker Face: Last Looks Season 2, Episode 2
A film shoot at a funeral home takes a dark turn. Guest starring Giancarlo Esposito and Katie Holmes.
Top Chef: Cooking on the Edge Season 22, Episode 9
Kristen is joined by Tom, Gail and chef and professor Ilona Daniel for this week’s Quickfire Challenge as the chefs are tasked with flexing their culinary “mussels.” Before the chefs enter the kitchen, they climb to new heights, facing their fears in this stunt-driven Elimination Challenge. Canadian chefs Patrick Kriss, Binit Pandey, Martine Bauer, action star Greg Tarzan Davis and two-time “Top Chef” winner Buddha Lo join the judges’ table. [more inside]
May 8
Poker Face: The Game Is a Foot Season 2, Episode 1
Charlie Cale is back! Once again on the run from organized crime, this time she finds herself caught up in a classic inheritance scheme with some complicated family dynamics. [more inside]
The Studio: The Globes Season 1, Episode 8
Another fancy occasion for Matt to make an ass of himself at. AV Club and NY Times. "It's the most unsatisfying thing about being an executive: your name is not on the film." [more inside]
AEW Collision: May 8, 2025 Season 2, Episode 45
The entire Don Callis Family is in action tonight, but a part of me REALLY wants to proclaim that what makes tonight's live episode special, besides the shifted date, is that my beloved The Dark Order gets a televised tag match against Takeshita and Josh Alexander. [more inside]
Special Event: Rifftrax: ERAGON
MST Club presents.... Huzzah! It is yon extrudede fantasie producte! Once upone thine time, there was a fantasy world called Analgesic Alagaësia. On this world was an evil person called Galbatorix. (Not kidding about that one.) He does evil things, evilly, but here are some other names: Ellesméra, Ra'zac, Zar'roc, Murtagh, Hrothgar. They also do things. Magic things. It is our job at MST Club to be thoughtlessly dismissive of whatever pop cultural object comes our way, but even so, this one's special. Eragon's riff comes from 2007, long enough ago that there's only Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy on this one.
Movie: The Red Suitcase
[TRAILER] A pick-up truck driver leaves Kathmandu airport for a two-day drive with a delivery to a remote mountain village. On the high road, a solitary figure slowly makes his way, wheeling a small red suitcase toward the same village. [more inside]
Wayward Pines: 🌲 "Where Paradise Is Home" 🏘️ Rewatch Season 1, Episode 1
"U.S. Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke awakens from a car accident on the outskirts of Wayward Pines, Idaho. After entering town and collapsing in a coffee shop, he recalls driving with Agent Stallings, searching for Agents Kate Hewson and Bill Evans." (previous)
*spoilers below. [more inside]
Movie: The Ballad of Wallis Island
A famous British folk singer is paid £500,000 to play a concert at a remote island, only to discover when he gets there that the gig is for an audience of one: An eccentric ex-male nurse who had won the lottery (twice!) and is the singer's biggest fan. A small personal drama that involves the two men and the singer's ex whom he hadn't seen for nine years. [more inside]
May 7
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: May 7, 2025 Season 6, Episode 32
AEW is pulling a two-nighter in Detroit with Collision being pushed to Thursday. Who better to welcome them than an ECW Original, a TNA Hall of Famer, Dearborn's own Rhino is advertised for the show. Okada and Toni Storm give eliminator match opportunities, Samoa Joe tries to peel Claudio away from Jon Moxley by force, and Young Bucks + Ricochet will attempt to stunt on another assortment of babyfaces. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: One False Step Season 2, Episode 19
The UAV plane crash-lands on a planet inhabited by friendly, gentle aliens, unleashing an illness that threatens to destroy the race. [more inside]
Movie: Two Evil Eyes
[TRAILER] Filmmakers Dario Argento and George Romero team up for a pair Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy woman (Adrienne Barbeau) who attempts to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a crime scene photographer (Harvey Keitel) whose partner adopts a strange black cat. [more inside]
Andor: Welcome to the Rebellion Season 2, Episode 9
In the Ghorman aftermath, Mon Mothma takes a stand. Cassian must carry out a difficult extraction. [more inside]
Andor: Who Are You? Season 2, Episode 8
Imperial manipulation, Ghorman frustration. Cassian and Syril center stage as Palmo erupts. StarWars.com episode guide
Andor: Messenger Season 2, Episode 7
Yavin is growing. Wilmon comes for help. Dedra's on Ghorman. Cassian heeds the call. Here’s the StarWars.com episode guide.
Movie: Fight or Flight
A ridiculous gonzo B-action-comedy that is very silly and so much fun. Drunk Josh Hartnett (who looks exactly like blond Bruce Willis) is a deranged mercenary in search of a high-value terrorist trapped on a plane full of international assassins. Impressive debut feature full of bloody killings and cartoonish action so fast, that it's hard to follow. [more inside]
May 6
The Handmaid's Tale: Shattered Season 6, Episode 7
After a shocking revelation, June spirals. Serena plans for a prestigious future.
Book: Clouds of Witness
Lord Peter Wimsey is relaxing on vacation when he receives terrible news out of the blue: his brother has just been arrested for the murder of his sister's fiancé. He returns home to sort out the tangled strings of his family's secrets. Available to read for free here.
Movie: Another WolfCop
[TRAILER] Alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou springs into action when an eccentric businessman with evil intentions seduces Woodhaven's residents with a new brewery and hockey team in this outrageous horror-comedy sequel. [more inside]
May 5
Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld: Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld All Seasons
The latest installment of the Star Wars "Tales Of..." animated series has six quite-short episodes about two of the many, many characters in the franchise who specialize in dirty deeds done dirt cheap and not-so-cheap: Asajj Ventress and Cad Bane. [more inside]
The Rehearsal: Pilot's Code Season 2, Episode 3
“No matter how many times she pretended to die, Zeus didn’t care at all.”
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