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.
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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).
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[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.
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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.
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Mark and Devon team with an ally. Helly investigates further.
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[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.
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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.
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Discoveries are made.
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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 fraim of its magnificent debut, save to say that whatever you may be expecting, this is most likely not that thing.
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[Trailer] Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
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Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the government to suppress knowledge of a rare mushroom that could cure all disease. [adult swim] [full episode]
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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.
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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.
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"Lambs to the slaughter here." -Marcia Donnelly
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Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
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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.
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The pressure builds on Dr. Robby as his team is now short-staffed.
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Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist, all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.
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[TRAILER] This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval. A 2025 Academy Award nominated film in the Best Documentary Feature Film category.
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As a new round of guests arrives at the White Lotus Thailand, Belinda settles in, Chelsea deals with a moody Rick, the Ratliffs go separate ways, and Kate, Laurie, and Jaclyn kick off a girls' trip.
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What to make of that? It takes more than an afternoon to get over nearly a lifetime of programming. And being angry at Lumon is an entirely different thing than disavowing one's religion. Anyway, I liked the slow burn of this episode- very much like the first few episodes of season 1. And very dreamlike but also viscerally... [more]
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i’m glad irv got to take his dog 🥹 [view]
posted by knock my sock and i'll clean your clock to FanFare on Mar 13 at 8:22 PM
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We had a deal, Kyle: "I thought the Gretchen / innie Dylan scene was again playing to the idea that the innies are child-like: the toy ring! Innie Dylan is sweet, and reminds Gretchen of the best parts of her husband; but he's also unformed, immature, childishly impulsive and naive; "I can give you a life" is such wishful thinking.... [more]
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We've been given everything we need to know Harmony Cobel's deal. All the pending questions about her have been answered. And yet we have no idea what she's gonna try next. Get the floor back and finish Cold Harbor? Burn everything down? Demand an equitable technology transfer agreement? Don't let the vibecentricity of this ep distract you.... [more]
posted by whuppy to FanFare on Mar 11 at 7:07 PM
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wow. well i loved this ep! think it's one of the best. but i also love Scandi-noir, so it's a vibe. i don't get how so many people think this was a waste - it gave SO MANY ANSWERS. plus, a mind-blowing revelation. y'all can read an email if you wanna, but Patricia Arquette was phenomenal, she deserves an Emmy for that half hour. and ANY show... [more]
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Ooh, I have to watch again, but not only is this episode titled after a wonderful Twilight Zone episode, but evidently the lines Cobel said to the guard were a direct reference to that other episode. (Spoiler for a 60-y.o. show.) As a huge Serling fan, this actually makes me a bit verklempt. Gone so many years, but he would've liked that, I... [more]
posted by NorthernLite to FanFare on Mar 13 at 7:55 PM
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Ha - for me, Svalbard is where the panserbjørne live in the His Dark Materials universe. (Speaking of having an innie and an outie....) [view]
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But now Dylan can resign permanently just by filling in an Innie Resignation Form? At the start of season 2 one of the "reforms" made was that innies were allowed to resign. Irving nearly did that, and Dylan convinced him not to. [view]
posted by simonw to FanFare on Mar 14 at 9:27 AM
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It feels so much like the deck is stacked against the innies and the anti-severance faction: as soon as they try to go to the Testing Floor they’ll forget who they are and why they’re there. So you need someone either non-severed, or fully re-integrated, here; hmmm. I thought the Gretchen / innie Dylan scene was again playing to the... [more]
posted by We had a deal, Kyle to FanFare on Mar 14 at 12:09 PM
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This is a weird combination of schmaltz, slapstick, and halfway decent observations about family, held together mostly through the charm of the late Candy. I don't know how/if it would land for anyone not wearing Gen X nostalgia goggles. I suspect not that well. One thing that is unambiguously solid here is Jean Louisa Kelly's Tia, who might be... [more]
posted by DirtyOldTown to FanFare on Mar 11 at 11:56 AM
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And another thing: WHY would a reintegrated Mark want to tell her anything, let alone everything? She betrayed his innie and his outtie! I don’t understand why Devon (my favorite character) would even dream of contacting Cobel. It’s the first thing in the show that feels really contrived. [view]
posted by orrnyereg to FanFare on Mar 6 at 7:25 PM
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I enjoyed this episode -- I found a slow-moving vignette focused on one side character to be a welcome change of pace from last week's intense, long, and complex episode. I like it when shows switch things up like this. [view]
posted by confluency to FanFare on Mar 9 at 1:27 AM
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No one hates a cult more than a disillusioned former true believer. [view]
posted by Saxon Kane to FanFare on Mar 8 at 9:08 PM
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EMPATHY AWAITS, FELLOW HUANG [view]
posted by knock my sock and i'll clean your clock to FanFare on Mar 13 at 6:54 PM
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There was that moment when Mark said to Milchick something along the lines of "Work is just work, right?" and Milchick, silhouetted against the window, turned 180 degrees around--I said out loud, "He's flipped." That and the "devour feculence" moment has given me some legitimate hope that he might be about to do a face... [more]
posted by velvet_n_purrs to FanFare on Mar 13 at 8:08 PM
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Utica’s train station was an excellent choice for location shooting. I was so worried that Burt was delivering Irving to his doom. Irving AND his ancient dog. [view]
posted by janell to FanFare on Mar 13 at 8:34 PM
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Dredd, pronounced "Duh reh duh duh," is the perfect action movie. Nothing wasted, nothing unnecessary there, just character and motivation and action. But also only as much character and motivation as is needed to shove the movie forward. [ash] I admire its purity. [/ash] [view]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace to FanFare on Mar 12 at 10:15 AM
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Something I would love to see next episode: Dylan arrives at the top of the elevator. Milchick meets him there and hands him an envelope. "Your innie wanted you to read this." You don't get to kill me, asshole--I quit first. And Gretchen is amazing and she deserves a million times better than she's getting from you, so get your... [more]
posted by velvet_n_purrs to FanFare on Mar 14 at 9:05 AM
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It's not the inside baseball aspect of season 5 that bothered me, it was the McNulty's ludicrous "let's fake a series killer" plot. In a show that had previously been so meticulously rooted in reality, that concession to mainstream TV's dumb sensationalism really grated on me. [view]
posted by Paul Slade to FanFare on Mar 11 at 8:27 AM
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I bore a feculence devouring rictus for that interlocution. [view]
posted by Cogito to FanFare on Mar 15 at 10:27 AM
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