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April 25
Movie: Looking for Mr. Goodbar
[Trailer] Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters. [more inside]
Leverage: Redemption: The Digital Frankenstein Job Season 3, Episode 2
A corrupt judge is paid to throw a case involving a ghost gun. The team has to find a way to correct the wrong doings of multiple bad guys.
Leverage: Redemption: The Weekend in Paris Job Season 3, Episode 1
A failed job in Paris forces the Leverage crew to hide at an exclusive auction where corrupt elites sell off national treasures. They quickly devise a scheme to stop the mastermind and protect an activist.
Movie: Katalin Varga
[TRAILER] Peter Strickland was well into his 30's and drifting from one soul-destroying job to another. His uncle died and left him a small inheritance. Instead of buying say, a studio flat in Bracknell, Strickland took his £28,000 to Transylvania where he would, over just 17 days, produce and direct a feature film in a country he was not from, in a language he did not speak. Katalin Varga drew instant praise at the Berlin Film Festival. Part meditative folk tale, part domestic drama, part searing film noir, the drama tells the story of a young mother in a remote village who is cast out when her husband learns he is not her son's father. The film launched the career of an acclaimed writer-director who would go on to make such films as In Fabric and Berberian Sound Studio. [more inside]
The Studio: The Pediatric Oncologist Season 1, Episode 6
Matt accompanies Rebecca Hall, his new girlfriend, to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for a fundraiser to benefit children with cancer. Disaster ensues. [more inside]
April 24
Movie: Read My Lips
She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Movie: Speed Racer
Young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile. [more inside]
Movie: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
[TRAILER] Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a 1965 Soviet-era Ukrainian film by the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov based on the 1911 novel by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells a Romeo and Juliet tale of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud. The film is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema. [more inside]
Special Event: Rifftrax: THE ROOM
MST Club presents.... OH HAI MARK. So, it's come to this. The Room. It was part of the 2015 Rifftrax live show. They can't sell that version, probably due to rights issues, but they can sell the "Just The Jokes" version of it. Surprisingly it's become a pop culture phenomenon, and the subject of both a book, The Disaster Artist, and a movie based on that book. So in the movie itself, Johnny is a successful person of some kind, who lives in a house full of photos of spoons. He loves his GF Lisa, but she doesn't love him. She "betray" him, so (spoiler!) he shoots himself. The movie is adamant that that is the story, and none of the subtext you might glean in your viewing is intentional. it must all be in your head, there and in the heads of our intrepid riffers. To this day we don't know why it's called The Room. Released in 2015 and 2016. [more inside]
April 23
The Outer Limits: Don't Open Till Doomsday Season 1, Episode 17
Young newlyweds in 1929 have their nuptial forever disrupted by a strange wedding gift from a mysterious bestower. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: April 23, 2025 Season 6, Episode 30
The Young Bucks (officially) return to the ring in for the first time since dropping the tag titles in October. Two of AEW's hossiest women face off in the Owen Hart tournament. The Don Callis Family faces two superstars they've recently wronged. Also, get your nostalgia receptors ready because 90s rapper, No Limits mogul and former WCW Nitro star Master P will be in attendance to hype the New Orleans crowd. [more inside]
Movie: Siesta
An American skydiver wakes up in the middle of nowhere in Spain and must recount the last five agonizing days to figure out how she got there.
Movie: On the Silver Globe
[TRAILER] (Polish: Na srebrnym globie) On the Silver Globe is an unfinished 1988 Polish epic surrealist science fiction film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski (Possession) and adapted from The Lunar Trilogy by his grand-uncle, Jerzy Żuławski. The plot follows a small group of cosmic explorers who leave Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Holiday Rewatch Season 2, Episode 15
Ma'chello, a dying old man, uses his soul-swapping machine to take over Daniel's body and gets a taste of life on Earth. [more inside]
Andor: Harvest Season 2, Episode 3
Time is running out for everyone.
April 22
Andor: Sagrona Teema Season 2, Episode 2
Cassian caught in a rebel turf war. Mon’s wedding woes mount. The Ferrix survivors face inspection. [more inside]
Andor: One Year Later Season 2, Episode 1
An undercover mission. A sanctuary threatened. A Chandrilian wedding. A chilling Imperial plan.
Movie: American Buffalo
Long-repressed feelings of bitterness and betrayal explode when three inner-city losers plot the robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop. [more inside]
Movie: The Curse of Frankenstein
[TRAILER] Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is a brilliant scientist willing to stop at nothing in his quest to reanimate a deceased body. After alienating his longtime friend and partner, Paul Krempe (Robert Urquhart), with his extreme methods, Frankenstein assembles a hideous creature (Christopher Lee) out of dead body parts and succeeds in bringing it to life. But the monster is not as obedient or docile as Frankenstein expected, and it runs amok, resulting in murder and mayhem. This was the first film in Hammer's run of Frankenstein films. [more inside]
April 21
The Handmaid's Tale: Janine Season 6, Episode 5
June and Moira go undercover. Serena and Nick make consequential choices.
The Rehearsal: Gotta Have Fun Season 2, Episode 1
A new season of the groundbreaking hybrid format HBO documentary series from Nathan Fielder. This season: an examination of a serious issue in aviation safety, and possible solutions.
Top Chef: Pickle Me This Season 22, Episode 6
“Top Chef Masters” alum Susur Lee and his son Jet Bent-Lee join Kristen for the Quickfire Challenge, where the chefs must create a dish using a limited amount of ingredients. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs must create dishes that highlight pickles. The judges are joined by season 21 winner Danny Garcia and Clare Reichenbach, the James Beard Foundation’s Executive Officer. [more inside]
Movie: The Radleys
It follows a seemingly ordinary family with a dark secret: they are vampires. They choose not to drink blood despite their natural cravings, but their truth is revealed one day. [more inside]
Movie: Cocoon
[TRAILER] When a group of trespassing seniors (Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn) swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor. [more inside]
April 20
The Righteous Gemstones: For Jealousy Is the Rage of a Man Season 4, Episode 7
Eli confronts Cobb, Dr. Watson gets a bath, and Jesse and Judy try to lift Kelvin from despair.
The Last of Us: Through the Valley Books Included Season 2, Episode 2
As a storm brews in the mountains, the people of Jackson Hole prepare for the worst amid increased sightings of Infected. Meanwhile, Abby weighs her options. [more inside]
The Last of Us: Through the Valley Show Only Season 2, Episode 2
As a storm brews in the mountains, the people of Jackson Hole prepare for the worst amid increased sightings of Infected. Meanwhile, Abby weighs her options. [more inside]
Person of Interest: Pretenders Rewatch Season 4, Episode 6
Reese, Shaw and Fusco must protect an unassuming office worker who stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy while moonlighting as fake detective. Meanwhile, Finch travels to Hong Kong as part of his academic cover identity. [more inside]
Abbott Elementary: Please Touch Museum Season 4, Episode 22
It's field trip day! Gregory's dad is also visiting. [more inside]
Movie: Quest
A child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract learning-games taught to the child bear an eerie resemblance to mammoth tasks and obstacles that hinder him in his journey. Can he complete the quest before his 8 days are up, and what lies at the end of this arcane sunless world? The gray, stagnating civilization place all their hope in a future they cannot comprehend and learned tasks whose meaning they no longer understand. A 30 minute short film by Saul and Elaine Bass. [more inside]
Movie: Scales
[TRAILER] A poor fishing village is governed by dark tradition: every family must give away a daughter to the sea creatures who inhabit the waters nearby. In turn, the sea creatures are hunted by the men of the village. Saved from this ordeal as a baby by her father, 12 year-old Hayat (Basima Hajjar) is shunned and considered a curse. When Hayat's mother gives birth to her new-born brother, Hayat must accept the brutal custom by sacrificing herself to these creatures or find a way to escape. [more inside]
April 19
Wheel of Time: He Who Comes with the Dawn Season 3, Episode 8
Nynaeve, Elayne, Mat, and Min confront the Black Ajah and their futures. Moiraine and Lan prepare to face their fate. Rand and Egwene set their destinies in motion. [more inside]
Special Event: WrestleMania 41: Night One & Night Two (4/19/2025 & 4/20/2025)
Pro-wrestling's has it's season finale as WrestleMania returns to Las Vegas for the first time since 1993 -- don't watch WM IX, it's really awful (except for the togas and Bobby Heenan riding backwards on a camel). John Cena's long-awaited heel turn means trouble for red-meat American babyface Cody Rhodes. CM Punk traded his principles and reputation for a chance to (sort of) achieve his remaining life goal of main-eventing the biggest show. Recent AEW alums Rey Fenix and Penta El Zero Miedo will make their Mania debuts, blonde-on-blonde combat as Tiffany Stratton will try to overcome Queen Charlotte Flair, basically every title being fought over these two nights. [more inside]
Doctor Who: Lux Season 2, Episode 2
The Doctor's quest to get Belinda home takes the Tardis to Miami in 1952, where an abandoned cinema is hiding a terrifying secret. Can the Doctor uncover Lux's power? [more inside]
Movie: All We Imagine as Light
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. [more inside]
AEW Collision: April 17, 2025: Spring Breakthru Season 2, Episode 42
Collision was bumped forward to Thursday since there's no way it could hope to compete for viewers with this weekend's WrestleMania, but Tony Khan rewarded Boston's loyalty by giving fans two title defense and some unexpected wrestler returns. [more inside]
Movie: The Sect
[TRAILER] Something something, slaughtered hippies, devil cult, secret basement, mystery beetles. Look, it's a Michele Soavi film, co-written by Dario Argento, the plot is incidental; it's the vibes. AKA The Devil's Daughter. [more inside]
April 18
Movie: The Killer
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. [more inside]
Movie: Sinners
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown in 1932 to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Movie: The Amateur
A CIA cryptographer manages to blackmail his agency into training him to let him go after a group of terrorists who killed his wife.
Your Friends and Neighbors: Deuce Season 1, Episode 2
After an unsuccessful job interview, Coop pawns a stolen watch.
Your Friends and Neighbors: This Is What Happens Season 1, Episode 1
Hedge fund manager Andy "Coop" Cooper (Jon Hamm) resorts to burglary after losing his job, targeting wealthy neighbors to maintain his family's lifestyle, but makes a fateful error breaking into the wrong home. In episode 1, Coop attends a neighbor's barbecue, where he faces his ex-wife Mel (Amanda Peet), and makes a surprising choice.
Movie: Bring Them Down
An Irish shepherding family thrust into battle on several fronts: internal strife, hostility within the family, rivalry with another farmer. Paternalism, heritage, and the generational trauma cycle through the cultural prism of Ir... [more inside]
April 17
Mystery Science Theater 3000: KTMA episode 21 LEGEND OF THE DINOSAURS Season 1, Episode 34
MST Club presents... and it's been a while since we've done this! We've avoided doing the KTMA episodes, the nebulous "Season Zero" of MST3K, because some of them are sincerely tough going. But going by the idea that the last episodes of the season will probably be the ones with the best writing, we figured we might try a few of them. This one is the last episode of the season, putting the series closest to the form it would be in when it was unleashed upon an unsuspecting Comedy Channel. Because Fanfare doesn't support a "Season 0," I'm numbering KTMA episodes going from the end of Season 1, making this episode 34: 13 + 21.
LEGEND OF THE DINOSAURS (a.k.a. Legend of the Dinosaurs & Monster Birds) is a Japanese movie brought to the US by Sandy Frank's distribution company, like the Gamera movies, Time of the Apes, Fugitive Alien & II, and Mighty Jack. It turns out dinosaurs lurk near Mt. Fuji, and they're hungry! In an ice cave their eggs are hatching, which is probably bad news I dunno.
Movie: Four Sided Triangle
[TRAILER] Two brilliant scientists unlock the secret to duplicating life, only to find their actions have deadly consequences. When they use their invention to clone the woman they both love, a dangerous love triangle ensues. An early sci-fi/horror thriller from Hammer Film Productions. [more inside]
The Studio: The War Season 1, Episode 5
Quinn and Sal engage in executive-level warfare over who gets to make the next low-budget slasher for the studio. [more inside]
April 16
Person of Interest: Prophets Rewatch Season 4, Episode 5
Finch is suspicious when a gifted political pollster’s number comes up at the same time that his typically ironclad predictions go wrong, and believes that the two events are linked. Meanwhile, Reese is sidelined by a direct order from Captain Moreno. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: A Matter of Time Rewatch Season 2, Episode 16
While trying to save fellow Stargate officers from a black hole, the SG-1 team and Earth becomes threatened by the hole's potentially fatal gravitational pull. [more inside]
Movie: Brewster McCloud
An introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: April 16, 2025: Spring BreakThru Season 6, Episode 29
For personal reasons I couldn't watch or make FF posts for Dynamite and Collision last week. A lot of things happened!. Tonight's Dynamite is paired with Collision tomorrow -- because Tony Khan isn't crazy enough trying to counter-program Wrestlemania this weekend -- so the Owen Hart Tournament continues, and the Trios and Tag titles will be defended. [more inside]
Daredevil: Born Again: Straight to Hell Season 1, Episode 9
Fisk comes up with a bold plan to fix the city. Some old friends show up to help Matt. [more inside]
Daredevil: Born Again: Isle of Joy Season 1, Episode 8
Fisk throws a party and flexes his consolidated power, but an uninvited guest shows up. Matt and Heather have relationship problems.
Movie: Mädchen in Uniform
An early (but definitely not the first) and explicit lesbian romance, between a 14-year-old girl and her kind teacher at an all-girl boarding school. With an all-woman cast, it’s natural, modern, absorbing and sensual. The film was an international success in 1931, and was later banned by Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis. 9/10. [more inside]
Movie: Feathers
An award-winning debut feature by young Egyptian film-maker Omar El Zohairy, a bizarre and miraculous story like no other I’ve ever seen, not even by Michael Haneke or Yorgos Lanthimos. The trailer. [more inside]
April 15
The Handmaid's Tale: Promotion Season 6, Episode 4
June disrupts the rebels' plans. Commander Lawrence gains power and influence.
Dying for Sex: Good Value Diet Soda Show Only All Seasons
Based on the podcast of the same name, it follows a woman, Molly, who's been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has one thing on her bucket list: having an orgasm with another person. [CW: lots of sex, cancer] [more inside]
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity: (all episodes) Season 1, Episode 1
Zero Gravity is a cinematic ode to jazz legend, Wayne Shorter, from executive producer, Brad Pitt and directed by Dorsay Alavi. Depicted in 3 "portals", the viewer is transported into prolific periods of Shorter's life and how through adversity, he grew to greatness, shattered the limitations of jazz, and became one of the most influential musicians and composers in American music.
Director: Dorsay Alavi
Producers: Dorsay Alavi, Matthew Flint, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Carlos Santana
Cast (includes): Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Carlos Santana, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sonny Rollins, Miles Brown [more inside]
April 14
Book: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall and what it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to two hundred and seventeen Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed confessions by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shared the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits, this is a bloody history of the American West that has remained untold until now. [more inside]
Movie: Fat City
[TRAILER] Washed-up boxer Tully (Stacy Keach) is inspired to restart his career after seeing potential in a teenager, Ernie (Jeff Bridges), whom he spars with at a gym. While Tully battles his past demons, including issues with alcohol, Ernie faces his own challenges. Pressured into marriage and sudden fatherhood by his girlfriend (Candy Clark), Ernie can shrug off his personal problems when he enters the ring. As both fighters continue with their bouts, Tully's star falls while Ernie's is on the rise. Fat City is a bleak, mordant, slice of life boxing drama that doesn't pull its punches. [more inside]
Movie: Belladonna of Sadness
Brutally assaulted by the feudal Lord and his grotesque court and abandoned by her betrothed Jean, the beautiful peasant Jeanne is offered immense power by a mysterious entity. [more inside]