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October 27
Movie: Trick or Treat (1986)
[Trailer] A bullied teenage boy is devastated after the death of his heavy metal idol, Sammi Curr. But as Halloween night approaches, he discovers that he may be the only one who can stop Sammi from making a Satanic comeback from beyond the grave. --IMDb [more inside]
Planetes: Outside the Atmosphere Season 1, Episode 1
It is the end of the 21st century, and with the colonization of near-Earth space expanding, the threat of space debris is a threat to the advancement of space exploration - especially in light of incidents where debris strikes have caused the deaths of people there. As such, the governments of the world have mandated that the corporations spearheading efforts in near-Earth orbit work to clear debris - but just because a job is important doesn't mean it's valued, as one young salarywoman is about to find out... [more inside]
AEW Collision: October 26, 2024 (& Rampage October 25) Season 2, Episode 19
Collision and Rampage both have the un-enviable burden of going up against the World Series. Speaking of baseball, Ricochet and Anna Jay are both pulling a doubleheader! Jay White takes on the much bigger Shane Taylor, FTR and The Outrunners continue to be best bros, and Penelope Ford returns after nearly two years away. [more inside]
Movie: The 13th Warrior
A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly em... [more inside]
October 26
Movie: Conclave (2024)
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church's most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall. [more inside]
Movie: The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world. A documentary in two parts, first IRL, then in WoW, and then those worlds meet. [more inside]
Only Connect: Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers Season 1, Episode 11
Three surrealism fans take on a team of tea enthusiasts, trying to establish connections between apparently random clues.
October 25
Abbott Elementary: Class Pet Season 4, Episode 3
The school gets budget for class pets, and receives a visit from a school district IT specialist.
Movie: Don't Move
A seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must run, fight, and hide before her body shuts down. [more inside]
Special Event: MLB: 2024 World Series
Tonight marks Game 1 of the 2024 World Series -- and for the first time in more than 40 years, it's the New York Yankees versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, setting up a dream matchup between superstar rivals Aaron Judge and Shoehei Ohtani. See how to stream, or check inside for a full game schedule. [more inside]
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Shades of Green Season 5, Episode 2
How to solve disputes within your interstellar organized crime society: space race through an asteroid field! Plus, see how a society reacts when it's introduced to Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism™. [more inside]
Shrinking: Psychological Something-ism Season 2, Episode 3
Paul continues to have awkward new relationship issues. Gaby is not pleasant to deal with at work. Brian and Jimmy have a big fight. Liz tries to do something nice for Sean that backfires. Alice makes mistakes. Grace feels like she needs to be punished. [more inside]
October 24
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: October 23, 2024 Season 6, Episode 4
Dynamite comes live from Sal Tlay Ka Siti -- Jericho gets a rematch for the ROH title, Daniel Garcia and Private Party continue to hound The Elite, Kamille vs. Queen Aminata in a lady hoss fight, and Kyle Fletcher stops dithering and chooses a side. [more inside]
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Dos Cerritos Season 5, Episode 1
[season premiere] The beginning of the end--these are the voyages where what we leave behind are all good things from the endgame! [looks at the other series] Look, I'm only one man and all my multiversal counterparts are watching the second episode, I'll find room for your last episodes later, I promise. [more inside]
Movie: Hounds of Love
[Trailer] Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive. -- IMDb [more inside]
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: THE DEVIL BAT
MST Club presents! The Devil Bat was released in 1940, and stars Bela Lugosi, who--get this--invents an aftershave lotion that causes giant bats to attack the wearers. All, um, according to plan? Premiered November 2022.
Shrinking: Jimmying/I Love Pain Season 2, Episode 1
In a 2 part episode, Jimmy continues unorthodox therapy when he shouldn't be doing so, Gaby angsts over wanting to boink Jimmy, Paul freaks out at commitment and Sean makes some changes. A person from the past rears his head. [more inside]
Movie: MadS
[TRAILER] Club kid Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer's place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her. It's, um, not a fortuitous choice. A French horror film presented in "one shot" (actually five cleverly interconnected takes). [more inside]
October 23
Agatha All Along: Death’s Hand in Mine Season 1, Episode 7
The remaining suffer the hand they are dealt in the next trial.
Only Murders in the Building: Escape from Planet Klongo Season 4, Episode 9
Seeking a critical clue, Charles, Oliver & Mabel must infiltrate a film set.
Movie: A Quiet Place: Day One
A young woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing.
Stargate SG-1: Hathor Season 1, Episode 13
A Gou'ald, who has taken on the persona of the Egyptian sex goddess Hathor, casts her deadly spell over all the men on the Stargate base. [more inside]
Heartstopper: Season Three Season 3 (Full Season)
Further adventures of love in the lives of the most LGBTQIA friendly group of high school friends ever.
Book: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
A solitary unicorn wonders what happened to the others of her kind. She goes to search for them, and finds herself travelling through a world that has changed beyond her recognition, full of dangers and unexpected companions. [more inside]
October 22
The Great British Bake Off: Pastry Week Season 16, Episode 5
Bakers compete in pastry challenges: frangipane tart Signature, flaky Technical, and choux Paris-Brest Showstopper requiring freestanding podium. Challenging pastry skills tested in warm climate setting.
Movie: Mars Express
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.
Dropout Presents: Courtney Pauroso: Vanessa 5000 Season 1 (Specials)
"Courtney Pauroso examines society's relationship with technology as sex robot Vanessa 5000." A one-hour Dropout Original live special, a one-woman show that starts off as comedy but goes some other places. Also available: an 11-minute behind-the-scenes video. Tags on Dropout's site: Dropout Presents, stand up comedy, improv, laughing, courtney pauroso, unhinged, dystopian, technology, robots, sexual fantasies. I'd add: cyberpunk, feminist, kink, music, scifi, clowning (Pauroso discusses how her clown experience feeds into this show). Mind the content notes on Dropout's site. [more inside]
Physical: 100: Underground Season 2 (Full Season)
Second season with the same premise as the season one: 100 competitors, all known for their well-developed physical attributes and physique, go head-to-head in various individual and team challenges, or 'quests' of strength, balance, agility, endurance, willpower and strategy.
October 21
Movie: Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
A series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his mistreated wife. -IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Possibly in Michigan
Possibly in Michigan (YT) is a 1983 American shot-on-video surrealist musical horror short film written and directed by Cecelia Condit, with music by Karen Skladany, who starred in the film as Janice. The film follows two women looking for perfumes in a department store being stalked by a cannibalistic murderer wearing a mask. How Cecelia Condit’s Video Art Became a Viral Curse for Teens on TikTok. [more inside]
A House Through Time: Episode 1 onwards Season 5, Episode 1
A new series of David Olusoga's history documentary. This one focusses on two blocks of flats, one in Berlin and one in London, and follows the lives of the residents from the 1920s onwards. [more inside]
Movie: The Company of Wolves
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too? [more inside]
October 20
Movie: Sleep with Me
Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend. [more inside]
Movie: The Haunted Palace
[TRAILER] A warlock burned at the stake (Vincent Price) comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him. [more inside]
AEW Collision: October 19, 2024 (& Rampage October 18): Battle of the Belts XII Season 2, Episode 18
After the results of last week's WrestleDream and the Blackpool Combat Club's Jon Moxley declaring himself the company's new overlord, the roster turns to Orange Cassidy as a new locker room leader, and he doesn't want the job. Also between the soon-to-be-cancelled Rampage and BOTB 12 this is four hours of wrestling, so buckle the heck up. [more inside]
Movie: Solaris
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
October 19
Movie: Hellmaster
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers. [more inside]
Abbott Elementary: Ringworm Season 4, Episode 2
When a student is found to have ringworm, the staff attempt to stop it spreading throughout the entire school.
Dandadan: That's How Love Starts, Ya Know Season 1, Episode 1
Momo is a gyaru girl with a spirit medium grandmother, while Ken is a UFO otaku and loner. But when the two clash over whether spirits or aliens are real, the conflict leads to a set of dares to go to known hotspots for the activity they don't believe in - which leads to the two learning that reality is a lot weirder (and dangerous) than they could ever have known... (cw: sexual assault/attempted rape) [more inside]
Sweetpea: This Sort of Thing Needs Some Feminine Energy Season 1, Episode 2
When Rhiannon's victim is discovered, she wants to find out who he was and whether he deserved it.
Movie: Black Belly of the Tarantula / La tarantola dal ventre nero
[Trailer] An Italian detective (Giancarlo Giannini) hunts a health-spa killer who uses a knife dipped in venom. -- Rotten Tomatoes [more inside]
Movie: The Stendhal Syndrome
[Trailer] A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession. -IMDb [more inside]
October 17
Only Connect: Harmonics v Bean Farmers Season 20, Episode 10
Undeterred by having been ppp dtth pst in the missing vowels round last time, the Harmonics are back to take on three devotees of a German card game.
Movie: The Shadow Strays
[TRAILER] Codename 13, a 17-year-old assassin, is suspended due to a sloppy mission in Japan. She meets 11-year-old Monji, who loses his mother, and sets out to rescue him. A new thriller from relentlessly bloody Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: October 16, 2024 Season 6, Episode 3
Dynamite returns to Wednesday as new champion Jon Moxley makes it clear no one is safe. Shelton Benjamin makes his AEW debut, Adam Cole & MJF reset a storyline, Mercedes Moné defends her TBS title, and a lot of tag teams get air time. [more inside]
Movie: Daddy's Head
[TRAILER] A newly widowed young woman (Julia Brown) and her stepson (RupertTurnbull) fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them. [more inside]
The Penguin: Cent'Anni Season 1, Episode 4
Confronting the events that turned her into the Hangman - and led to a decade-long fight for survival in Arkham - Sofia makes plans for a more hopeful future.
October 16
Movie: Fright Night
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. [more inside]
Agatha All Along: Familiar by Thy Side Season 1, Episode 6
Familiar Teen is much more than he seems, and his connections to the rest of the coven are revealed.
Book: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented―notably the slasher movie's "final girls"―as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. The lesson was not lost on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers. -- publisher
Stargate SG-1: Fire and Water Rewatch Season 1, Episode 12
The SG-1 team returns from its mission on the planet Oannes without Daniel Jackson, who was killed in a volcanic eruption. However, it turns out Daniel is not dead at all, but is held captive by the amphibious alien Nem. [more inside]
October 15
Movie: Zardoz
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements. [more inside]
Only Murders in the Building: Lifeboat Season 4, Episode 8
Charles, Oliver & Mabel combine forces with the film actors in an epic showdown.
Movie: All Hallows' Eve
[TRAILER] A baby sitter finds a tape with three tales of terror on it, all linked to a murderous clown. The debut feature by Damien Leone (Terrifier) is a horror anthology, two of the segments introducing the character of Art the Clown, [more inside]
The Great British Bake Off: Caramel Week Season 16, Episode 4
It's all about delicious melted sugar this week as our bakers sail a treacherous course between the Scylla of burnt bitterness and the Charybdis of crystallisation. Featuring caramel biscuits, a pear Tarte Tatin technical, and a showstopping caramel mousse cake.
Book: Refugee by Alan Gratz
From Kirkus: Poignant, respectful, and historically accurate while pulsating with emotional turmoil, adventure, and suspense. (maps, author’s note) (Historical fiction. 10-14) [more inside]
Disclaimer: I / II Show Only Season 1, Episode 2
Chapter I: A novel exposes the secret past of a journalist when she realizes she is a character in a story with buried transgressions.
Chapter II: Do you ever think of me? [more inside]
October 14
Sweetpea: Sorry for your loss Season 1, Episode 1
When her father dies, and her bully returns, a wallflower is triggered to a violent breaking point.
My So-Called Life: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Season 1, Episode 19
This is the post to discuss the series as a whole if you'd like.
Movie: From a Whisper to a Scream
The uncle of an executed serial murderer (Vincent Price) relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter (Susan Tyrrell) [more inside]
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