Summer Time Machine Blues

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{4/5} “Who took my Vidal Sassoon?” Summer Time Machine Blues, released in 2005 Members of a Sci-Fi Club play baseball, only to get some pictures of themselves playing it. They don’t actually read sci-fi, of course. It’s really hot but an accident causes Coke to spill on the remote for their air conditioner — which […]

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

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{5/5} “I have a feeling that right off the bat they’re going to ask for an encore.” Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, released in 2025 Matt and Jay have a band that they call Nirvanna the Band. They particularly would like to play at the Rivoli, so they make some flyers that say […]

Hoppers

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{4.5/5} “I think your pond rules are inconsistent.” Hoppers, released in 2026 When Mabel decides to free the turtle in her classroom, as well as all the other animals in the school, she gets in trouble. Her mom drops her off at her grandma’s place. Initially she’s annoyed but her grandma introduces her to the […]

The Devil Wears Prada 2

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{4.5/5} “My boss is badder than your boss.” The Devil Wears Prada 2, released in 2026 Andy loses her job at the newspaper after many years. Miranda is in trouble because of a story that’s going viral — the people at one of her shops lied and it turned out to be a sweat shop. […]

Pitch Perfect

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{5/5} “Even though some of you are pretty thin, you all have fat hearts, and that’s what matters.” — Fat Amy Pitch Perfect, released in 2012 Beca’s father is making her attend college — it is free, though, since he teaches there. But she wants to go to LA to become a music producer. Her […]

Not Dead Yet (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “‘This is a dear friend of my family, Alistair Banister. And before anyone asks, yes, Banister of the handrails fortune.’ ‘Well, it’s nice to meet you. Thank you for helping me stay on the stairs.’” Not Dead Yet season 1, aired in 2023 Nell has been away in England for 5 years with her […]

Reboot (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “‘I like this idea, but are people still doing reboots?’ ‘Let’s see, Fuller House, Saved by the Bell, iCarly, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl.’ ‘Party of Five, Party Down, One Day at a Time.’ ‘Boy Meets World, How I Met Your Father, The Wonder Years.’ ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ ‘Doogie Houser, The Odd Couple, Perry Mason, Hawaii […]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 5)

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{5/5} “Like every other parent, I spend sleepless nights imagining what my kids are going to say about me to their psychiatrists. ‘She wasn’t home.’ ‘She missed my baseball game.’ ‘She made me listen to her tight ten for a week before she opened in Toledo and then had us heckle her for three hours […]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 4)

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{5/5} “I want revenge. And I’m talking real revenge, not the ‘Hey, I got you a lifetime subscription to The Watchtower’ kind of revenge, but Shakespearean, blood-soaked, painful, soul-crushing revenge. I will dig out my high school clarinet and play klezmer music next door to you 24 hours a day. I will sneak into your […]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 3)

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{5/5} “‘How does it feel, Abe?’ ‘Well, I never imagined they would publish the piece this quickly. With hardly any editing. It’s wonderful.’ ‘I meant to be holding your grandson.’ ‘Well, that’s good too.’” — Mohel Rosenbaum & Abe The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3, aired in 2019 Midge has fun performing for the army, […]