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01:56:31

Season 7: Episode 330 - DARK FAMILIES: Kuntilanak...

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2023/10/22

Kuntilanak is a 2018 Indonesian horror film directed by Rizal Mantovani and written by Alim Sudio. The plot revolves around five children who find a mirror in their orphanage. The mirror contains a ghost that kidnaps children and imprisons them inside it. The Hole is a 2009 American 3D dark fantasy horror film directed by Joe Dante and starring Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett, Nathan Gamble, Bruce Dern, and Teri Polo. The film follows Dane and Lucas Thompson, two brothers who move into their new

02:01:11

Season 7: Episode 329 - BATMAN: Paging the Crime...

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2023/10/15

Paging The Crime Doctor Dr Matthew Thorne, a formerly respectable surgeon who lost his license after sheltering his brother Rupert Thorne from the police and once a friend of Dr Thomas Wayne and Leslie Thompkins, is reduced to acting as a mob doctor. When Rupert is critically injured, his brother coerces Leslie to assist with the surgery. But the recovering mob boss wants no witnesses, and Mathew is forced to decide where his real loyalties lie. Zatanna Zatanna was the daughter of Zatara,

01:07:22

Season 7: Episode 328 - ONCE UPON A TIME: Coraline (N...

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2023/10/14

Coraline is a dark fantasy horror children's novel by British author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick

02:01:14

Season 7: Episode 327 - MAKE/REMAKE: Beauty and the...

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2023/09/30

Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the 1756 fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (who was only credited in the French dub),[6] while also containing ideas from the 1946 French film of the same name directed by Jean Cocteau.[7] The film

01:29:00

Season 7: Episode 326 - ANTHOLOGIES: Fantasia...

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2023/09/23

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced and released by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. The third Disney animated feature film, it consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies

01:25:30

Season 7: Episode 325 - DOCTOR WHO: The Web...

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2023/09/21

The Web Planet 13 February – 20 March 1965 The First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Ian Chesterton (William Russell), Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill), and Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) ally themselves with the Menoptra, the former inhabitants of the planet Vortis, as they struggle to win back the planet from the malignant Animus (Catherine Fleming) and its Zarbi slaves. The Crusades 27 March – 17 April 1965 The First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling

01:55:18

Season 7: Episode 324 - DARK FAMILIES: Pufnstuf...

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2023/09/21

Pufnstuf (also known as Pufnstuf Zaps the World) is a 1970 American comedy fantasy musical film produced by Sid and Marty Krofft Enterprises and released by Universal Pictures. It is based on the children's television series H.R. Pufnstuf, a show that features a cast of puppets on a "living island." The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 fantasy film co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (in his first English-language film), and based on the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. It was

01:55:58

Season 7: Episode 323 - BATMAN: I Am The Night/Off...

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2023/09/09

I Am The Knight Batman falls into the depths of depression after Commissioner Gordon is shot by the Jazzman during a botched raid. Batman was meant to be present but was delayed by thugs while paying his annual visit to the site of his parents' murder. With Gordon hospitalized and near death, the Dark Knight becomes consumed by self-doubt. Only when the Jazzman escapes custody and attempts to murder Gordon does Batman snap out of his funk. His spirit is further renewed when he encounters a young

01:59:03

Season 7: Episode 322 - ONCE UPON A TIME: The Little...

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2023/09/04

The Little Mermaid is a literary fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, first published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children. The story follows the journey of a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a human soul. The original story has been a subject of multiple analyses by scholars such as Jacob Bøggild and Pernille Heegaard, as well as the folklorist Maria Tatar. These analyses cover various aspects of

02:08:53

Season 6: Episode 321 - M&M: A Ghost Story...

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2023/08/26

A Ghost Story (2017) A Ghost Story is a 2017 American supernatural drama film written and directed by David Lowery. It stars Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham, Sonia Acevedo, Rob Zabrecky, Liz Franke and Kesha. Affleck plays a man who becomes a ghost and remains in the house he shares with his wife (Mara). The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017, and was released by A24 on July 7, 2017. A Ghost Story received positive reviews from critics. Coco

02:26:19

Season 6: Episode 320 - MAKE/REMAKE: The Last Man On...

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2023/08/19

The Last Man on Earth (1964) The Last Man on Earth is a 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film was produced by Robert L. Lippert and directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and stars Vincent Price and Franca Bettoia. The screenplay was written in part by Matheson, but he was dissatisfied with the result and chose to be credited as "Logan Swanson". William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona finished the

01:57:46

Season 6: Episode 319 - BATMAN: Terror in the...

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2023/08/12

Terror in the Sky When a giant-sized bat ransacks Gotham harbor, Batman suspects that Dr. Kirk Langstrom is up to his old tricks, taking the Man-Bat formula again. Batman isn't the only one. Kirk's wife, Francine, is so distrustful of her husband that she decides to leave him. After further investigation, Batman discovers that this Man-Bat is not Kirk, but someone else, and thus he shames Francine's father into permanently destroying the formula. Almost Got'im The Joker, Killer Croc, the

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Season 6: Episode 318 -DOCTOR WHO: The Rescue/The...

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2023/08/12

The Rescue 02 - 09 January 1965 On the planet Dido, the Doctor, Ian, and Barbara encounter Vicki and Bennett, two survivors of a space crash who are awaiting a rescue ship. They live in fear of Koquillion, a bipedal inhabitant who is stalking the area. The Doctor enters Bennett's room, and follows a trap door to a temple where he unmasks Koquillion as Bennett. Bennett reveals he killed a crewmember on board the ship and was arrested, but the ship crashed before the crime could be radioed to

01:28:44

Season 6: Episode 317 - AMERICA GOES DARK: Flowers in...

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2023/08/06

Book: Flowers in the Attic By V C Andrews Film: Flowers in the Attic (1987) Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series, and was followed by Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, Garden of Shadows, Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth, Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger and Christopher's Diary: Secret Brother. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of

02:23:36

Season 6: Episode 316 - M&M: The Orphanage...

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2023/07/29

The Orphanage (2007) The Orphanage (Spanish: El orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish gothic supernatural horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker J. A. Bayona. The film stars Belén Rueda as Laura, Fernando Cayo as her husband, Carlos, and Roger Príncep as their adopted son Simón. The plot centers on Laura, who returns to her childhood home, an orphanage. Laura plans to turn the house into a home for disabled children, but after an argument with Laura, Simón goes missing. The film's script

02:38:51

Season 6: Episode 315 - MAKE/REMAKE: True Grit...

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2023/07/23

Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – copyright 2021. All rights reserved Closing Credits: Where Have All The Cowboys Gone by Paula Cole. Taken from the album This Fire. Copyright 1996 Imago/Warner Brothers Records. Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. All rights reserved. All songs available through Amazon Music.

02:15:10

Season 6: Episode 314 - BATMAN: The Joker’s...

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2023/07/23

Joker’s Wild Cameron Kaiser builds a casino hotel modeled after the Joker, called "The Joker's Wild". The Joker sees this on the news and, enraged, escapes from Arkham again, with one thought on his mind: destroying the casino, unaware that this is exactly what Kaiser wants him to do as part of an insurance claim. Tyger Tyger Selina Kyle is kidnapped by the villainous genetic engineer Dr. Emile Dorian (a former comrade of Man-Bat) and becomes his latest experiment to provide his man-cat hybrid

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Season 6: Episode 313 - DOCTOR WHO: Planet of...

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2023/07/23

SEASON 2 Planet of Giants 31 October – 14 November The Doctor, his granddaughter Susan Foreman and her teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are shrunk to the size of an inch after the Doctor's time machine the TARDIS arrives in contemporary England. The Dalek Invasion on Earth 21 November – 26 December 1964 The Doctor, his granddaughter Susan Foreman and teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright discover that the Earth in the 22nd century has been occupied by Daleks. They work

02:09:26

Season 6: Episode 312 - AMERICA GOES DARK: Beloved...

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2023/07/15

Book: Beloved By Toni Morrison Film: Beloved (1998) Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the story of a family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Beloved is inspired by an event that actually happened: Margaret Garner, an enslaved person in Kentucky, who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856. She was subject to capture in accordance with the Fugitive

01:26:56

Season 6: Episode 311 - M&M: Monsters and Madmen:...

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2023/07/02

You’re Next (2011) You're Next is a 2011 American slasher film directed and edited by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett and starring Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, A. J. Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran. The plot concerns an estranged family under attack by a group of masked assailants during a family reunion. The film had its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness program and was theatrically released on August 23,

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