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02:54:42

Season 6: Episode 290 - MAKE/REMAKE: Scarface...

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2023/02/18

Scarface (1932) Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard Hughes. The screenplay, by Ben Hecht, is based loosely on the 1929 novel by Armitage Trail which was inspired by Al Capone. The film stars Paul Muni as Italian immigrant gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte, a gangster who violently rises through the Chicago gangland, with a supporting cast that

01:37:57

Season 6: Episode 289 - BATMAN: The Animated Series:...

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2023/02/15

Batman: The Animated Series Feat of Clay – Part 1 Bruce Wayne is framed for the attempted murder of Lucius Fox. The real perpetrator is an actor and master of disguise named Matt Hagen, who was disfigured in a car accident years ago. In order to keep his fame, he secretly started working for Roland Daggett, who provides him with a monthly supply of an addictive face cream known as Renuyu (a pun on "Renew You") that can temporarily reshape his face back to normal, and who wants to take Wayne

02:38:23

Season 6: Episode 288: AMERICA GOES DARK: The Color...

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2023/02/05

Book: The Color Purple By Alice Walker Film: The Color Purple (1985) The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the

03:26:35

Season 6: Episode 287 - M&M: The Little Girl Who...

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2023/01/28

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a 1976 cross-genre film directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, and Scott Jacoby. It was a co-production of Canada and France and written by Laird Koenig, based on his 1974 novel of the same title. The plot focuses on 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs (Foster), a child whose absent poet father and secretive behaviours prod the suspicions of her conservative

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Season 6: Episode 286 - DOCTOR WHO: Marco Polo

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2023/01/28

MARCO POLO – (The Lost Story) 22 February – 4 April 1964 EPISODES: The Roof of the World The Singing Sands Five Hundred Eyes The Wall of Lives Rider from Shang-Tu Mighty Kublai Khan Assassin at Peking The story is set in Yuan-era China in the year 1289, where the Doctor , his granddaughter Susan Foreman and her teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright meet the Italian merchant-explorer Marco Polo and Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan. Opening Credits; Introduction (1.29); Plot Synopsis

02:35:02

Season 6: Episode 285 - MAKE/REMAKE: Castle Freak...

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2023/01/21

Castle Freak (1995) Castle Freak is a 1995 American direct-to-video horror film directed by Stuart Gordon. The film stars Jeffrey Combs as John Reilly, an American recovering alcoholic who inherits an Italian castle when a distant relative passes away. John travels to Italy with his estranged wife Susan (Barbara Crampton) and blind daughter Rebecca (Jessica Dollarhide). The three plan to stay at the castle, but unbeknownst to them, a freakish monster locked away in the basement of the castle is

02:58:38

Season 6: Episode 284 - BATMAN: The Animated Series: ...

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2023/01/15

Batman: The Animated Series See No Evil Lloyd "Eddie" Ventrix is on the verge of losing his daughter, Kimberly (Elisabeth Moss), to his ex-wife, Helen, due to his past as a con artist. Determined not to lose Kimberly, Ventrix dons a suit, stolen from where he used to work while on parole, which grants the user invisibility but also becomes highly toxic and drives him insane. He poses as Kimberly's imaginary friend, Mojo, and planning to abduct her from her mother, while in a crime spree as an

02:55:26

Season 6: Episode 283 - AMERICA GOES DARK: We Need To...

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2023/01/14

Book: We Need to Talk About Kevin By Lionel Shriver Film: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, published by Serpent's Tail, about a fictional school massacre. It is written from the first person perspective of the teenage killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her psychopathic son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband. The

02:46:18

Season 6: Episode 282 - M&M: Eating Raoul...

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2023/01/07

Cannibal the Musical (1993) Cannibal! The Musical (originally known as Alferd Packer: The Musical) is a 1993 American black comedy musical film directed, written, produced, co-scored by and starring Trey Parker in his directorial debut while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder, before reaching fame with South Park alongside his friend Matt Stone who also stars in and produced the film. It is loosely based on the true story of Alferd Packer and the sordid details of the trip

03:53:37

Season 6: Episode 281 - MAKE/REMAKE: West Side Story...

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2022/12/19

West Side Story (1961) West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. With a screenplay by Ernest Lehman, the film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same title, which in turn was inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris, and was photographed by Daniel L. Fapp in Super Panavision 70. The music was composed by Leonard Bernstein,

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Season 6: Episode 280 - DOCTOR WHO: The Edge of...

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2022/12/18

The Edge of Destruction 8 February – 15 February 1964 The Doctor, his granddaughter Susan and her teachers are in the Doctor's time and space machine the TARDIS when it appears to be taken over by an outside force. The travellers begin acting strangely and turn against each other. Opening Credits; Introduction (1.29); Plot Synopsis (8.39); Let's Discuss (10.51); Amazing Design Advertisement (25.15); Favourite and Least Favourite Character (26.26); Tune In Next Time (32.07); Closing Credits

03:11:43

Season 6: Episode 279 - BATMAN: The Animated Series:...

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2022/12/10

Batman: The Animated Series – I Got Batman In My Basement/Heart of Ice/Cat and the Claw Part 1 & 2 I’ve Got Batman In My Basement During a fight with Batman over a stolen Fabergé egg, the Penguin incapacitates Batman with poison gas. The Dark Knight is rescued by a teenage amateur detective named Sherman Grant and his friend Roberta, who hide Batman in Sherman's basement long enough for him to recover before the Penguin finds them. Heart of Ice Bitter scientist Victor Fries, as Mr. Freeze,

02:09:59

Season 6: Episode 278 - AMERICA GOES DARK: We Have...

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2022/12/04

Book: We Have Always Lived in The Castle By Shirley Jackson Film: We Have Always Live in the Castle (2018) We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was Jackson's final work, and was published with a dedication to Pascal Covici, the publisher, three years before the author's death in 1965. The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, who lives with her sister and uncle on an estate

02:46:41

Season 6: Episode 277 - M&M: Double Indemnity...

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2022/11/26

Double Indemnity (1944) Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novel of the same title, which appeared as an eight-part serial for the Liberty magazine in February 1936. The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who is accused of killing her husband,

03:03:59

Season 6: Episode 274 - MAKE/REMAKE: The Women...

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2022/11/20

The Women (1939) The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code for it to be released. The film stars Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson, Mary Boland, Florence Nash, and Virginia Grey. Marjorie Main and Phyllis Povah also

01:17:33

Season 6: Episode 276 - DOCTOR WHO: The Daleks Part 2

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2022/11/19

The Daleks – Part 2 21 December 1963 – 1 February 1964 Episodes 5 – 7 The Expedition The Ordeal The Rescue The Doctor, his granddaughter Susan Foreman and her teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright land in an alien jungle and are captured by the Daleks, a race of mutated creatures who survive off the radiation that remains in the atmosphere after a nuclear war with their enemies. As the group attempt to escape the Daleks, they discover more about the planet and the ensuing war and

02:39:04

Season 6: Episode 275 - BATMAN: Be A Clown/Two Face...

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2022/11/12

Be A Clown Mayor Hamilton Hill's miserable son, Jordan, becomes even sadder when his father uses his birthday party as a political gathering rather than a normal celebration, and ends up stowing away in the truck of the party clown hired by Hill for the party, whom he doesn't know is actually the Joker in disguise. It is now up to Batman, whom Mayor Hill distrusts, to rescue the boy before it is too late. Two Face Part 1 Mobster Rupert Thorne attempts to use Harvey Dent's secret split

01:32:00

Season 6: Episode 273 - AMERICA GOES DARK: Gone Girl...

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2022/11/06

Book: Gone Girl By Gillian Flynn Film: Gone Girl (2014) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn was published in June 2012 and become an instant success. The sense of suspense in the novel would come whether Nick Dunne is responsible for the disappearance of his wife Amy. The book would be told in three parts changing the point of view between the different parts. The film, directed by David Fincher and starring Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck. Set in Missouri, the story is a postmodern mystery

01:58:43

Season 6: Episode 272 - M&M: Adele Blanc-Sec...

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2022/10/29

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (2010) The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec is a 2010 French fantasy adventure feature film written and directed by Luc Besson. It is loosely based on the comic book series The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec by Jacques Tardi and, as in the comic, follows the eponymous writer and a number of recurring side characters in a succession of far-fetched incidents in 1910s Paris and beyond, in this episode revolving

02:24:13

Season 6: Episode 271 - MAKE/REMAKE: The Mummy...

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2022/10/23

The Mummy (1932) The Mummy is a 1932 pre-code American supernatural horror film directed by Karl Freund and stars Boris Karloff. In the film, Karloff stars as an ancient Egyptian mummy named Imhotep, who is discovered by a team of archaeologists and inadvertently brought back to life by a magic scroll being read aloud. Disguised as a modern Egyptian named Ardeth Bey, Imhotep searches for his lost love, who he believes has been reincarnated as a modern girl. In recent times, the film has drawn

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