Actor J.K. Simmons (1955)

In a world co-populated by humans and cartoon characters, Chip and Dale meet in elementary school and become best friends. They later relocate to Hollywood and, after casting as extras in commercials and shows, go on to star in the successful television series Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers in the early 1990s. However, when Dale gets his own show, Double-O-Dale, the two have a falling-out that leads to both shows’ cancellation. Thirty years later, Chip is a successful but disillusioned insurance salesman while Dale spends most of his time on the fan convention circuit. The two are contacted by their former Rescue Rangers co-star Monterey Jack, who owes money to the criminal ...

Thirty-two years after defeating Vigo the Carpathian, the Ghostbusters have disbanded after a decline in supernatural activities in New York City. Egon Spengler has relocated to Summerville, Oklahoma, where occultist Ivo Shandor’s mining operations are located. Egon captures a bestial entity from Shandor’s mine, aiming to lure a potent entity to a painstaking trap in his farm. When the trap’s capacitors fail, he hides the ghost trap that caught his captive under his farmhouse’s living room floor. Egon struggles with another entity and suffers a fatal heart attack. Callie, Egon’s estranged daughter, and her two children, ...

One week after Quentin Beck’s attacks in Europe and subsequent framing of Spider-Man for his murder, Spider-Man’s civilian identity as Peter Parker is revealed to the world. Parker and MJ flee to his apartment, reuniting with his aunt May and Happy Hogan. With the apartment surrounded by the Department of Damage Control, Parker, MJ, Aunt May, and Ned Leeds are interrogated but ultimately released without charge. Parker, MJ, and Leeds return to high school but their university applications are rejected due to the recent controversy. Parker consults with Stephen Strange in the Sanctum Sanctorum, asking him to cast a spell to make people ...

Thousands of years ago, Darkseid and his Parademons attempted to conquer Earth using the Mother Boxes after learning that Earth harbored the Anti-Life Equation. The attempt was foiled by a unified alliance of Old Gods, Amazons, Atlanteans, humanity, and a Green Lantern. After the battle, the Boxes were hidden in different locations, guarded by the Amazons, Atlanteans, and Humanity, respectively. In the present, Superman’s death triggers the Boxes’ reactivation, attracting Steppenwolf, Darkseid’s disgraced lieutenant, to Earth. Steppenwolf aims to regain Darkseid’s favor by gathering the boxes to form “the Unity,” which would terraform Earth in the ...

Defending Jacob is an American crime drama streaming television miniseries, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by William Landay, produced by Apple TV+. The series was created and written by Mark Bomback and directed by Morten Tyldum. It stars Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, Jaeden Martell, Cherry Jones,

In the town of Whoville, the human-like people called Whos are filled with excitement about celebrating Christmas. However, the only one who is not amused is the cantankerous and green-furred Grinch, born with a heart being “two sizes too small”. He lives in his cave with his dog, Max, and only goes into Whoville to buy groceries and play pranks on the citizens. Meanwhile, 6-year-old Cindy Lou Who notices that her mother Donna is overworked trying to take care of herself and her twin infant brothers, Buster and Bean. Cindy initially decides to send a letter to Santa Claus to help her mother, but after an encounter with the Grinch —who sarcastically tells her that, if the ...

After finishing second to Walter Mondale in the 1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries, former Senator Gary Hart is now the widely accepted frontrunner in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Leading up to the formal launch of his campaign in April 1987, some of Gary’s campaign staff are concerned he won’t open up about himself (letting the public “get to know him”), instead focusing on ideas and policy. Meanwhile, at The Washington Post, editors and journalists discuss whether the paper should report on Hart’s marital problems and rumoured promiscuity. After the first week of campaigning, Gary joins his friend Billy Broadhurst for a ...

Howard Silk, a gentle, quiet office worker, has been working for a Berlin-based United Nations agency, the Office of Interchange (OI), for thirty years. His position is too low for him to be told what his work—exchanging apparently nonsensical messages—really involves. The OI oversees a checkpoint below its headquarters between parallel Earths (the “Alpha” and “Prime” worlds). The parallel Earths were created in 1987 during an experiment by East Germany when only a scientist named Yanek was on-site. The “Alpha world” Yanek met his “Prime world” counterpart, and they soon began studying how the initially identical Earths diverge.

Thousands of years ago, Steppenwolf and his legions of Parademons had attempted to take over the Earth using the combined energies of the three Mother Boxes. The attempt was foiled by a unified alliance including the Olympian Gods, Amazons, Atlanteans, humanity, and extraterrestrial beings. After Steppenwolf’s army was repelled, the Mother Boxes were separated and hidden in different locations. In the present, humanity is still in mourning two years after Superman’s death, which triggered the Mother Boxes’ reactivation and Steppenwolf’s return to Earth. Steppenwolf aims to regain favor with his master Darkseid by gathering the boxes to form “The ...

In the Spirit Realm, Grand Master Oogway fights against General Kai, a spirit warrior yak who has defeated all the other dead kung fu masters and stolen their chi. Oogway has his own chi stolen, but not before he warns Kai that someone (Po) is destined to stop him. Kai takes this as a challenge, and returns to the Mortal Realm. Meanwhile, Master Shifu announces his retirement from teaching, and names Po the Dragon Warrior as his successor. Po’s first attempts to teach inadvertently injure the Furious Five, and Shifu advises Po should try to be more like himself and less like Shifu. Disheartened, Po returns home, where he meets Li Shan, a panda that both quickly realize is ...

Rabbit Judy Hopps from rural Bunnyburrow fulfills her childhood dream of becoming a police officer in urban Zootopia. Despite being the academy valedictorian, Judy is delegated to parking duty by Chief Bogo, who fails to recognize her talent. On her first day on the job, Judy is hustled by a con artist fox duo, Nick Wilde and Finnick. Later, Duke Weaselton steals a bag of crocus bulbs known as Midnicampum holicithias. Judy abandons parking duty to recover them, and is reprimanded by Bogo. Mrs. Otterton unexpectedly barges in to Bogo’s office pleading for someone to find her husband Emmitt, one of fourteen missing animals. Judy volunteers and the city’s assistant mayor, ewe ...

Christian Wolff is diagnosed with autism at Harbor Neuroscience as a child. His father refuses to let him stay over the summer this environment better for his sensory processing disorder, believing that he must overcome the hardships of his condition. Chris’ overwhelmed mother abandons them. Fearing others will exploit him, he — a US Army PSYOP officer — begins a brutal regimen of stoicism and martial-arts training for him and his younger brother, Braxton. In the present, Chris is a forensic accountant from a small office in Plainfield, Illinois. He unmasks insider financial deceptions, often for criminal enterprises. His clients contact him through the Voice, an unidentified ...

In 2029, Human Resistance leader John Connor launches a final offensive against Skynet, an artificial general intelligence system seeking to eliminate the human race. Before the Resistance can triumph, Skynet activates a time machine and sends a T-800/Model 101 Terminator back to 1984, to kill John’s mother Sarah. John’s right-hand man, Kyle Reese, volunteers to travel back in time to protect her. As Kyle floats in the machine’s magnetic field, he sees John being attacked by another Resistance soldier. This creates a temporal paradox that alters the timeline and causes Kyle to experience childhood memories from a parallel version of himself. When it arrives in Los ...

Donald and Helen Truby are a sexually-unsatisfied married couple. Helen has multiple affairs on the social media website Ashley Madison, and Donald regularly visits escorts. Donald accidentally catches his wife’s affair, and in a discussion the day after this discovery, both confess to their scandalous activities and agree to ignore they ever happened. Their teenage son Chris is aroused by material not deemed “normal” by society. Chris, in order to condition himself to have arousal towards “traditional means”, dates classmate Hannah, who models for a website run by her mom Joan. However, as they start to initiate sex, Chris fails to become aroused and ...

Andrew Neiman is a first-year student at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York City, hoping to one day fulfill his childhood goals and reaching legacies like his idol Buddy Rich. Andrew is recruited by Terence Fletcher, conductor and bandleader of the Shaffer Conservatory Studio Band, to play in his ensemble as an alternate for core drummer Carl Tanner. However, he quickly discovers that Fletcher is relentlessly strict, ruthless, and abusive to his students. During practice, Fletcher physically and verbally attacks Andrew after he fails to keep pace during the rehearsal of Hank Levy’s titular piece “Whiplash”. Determined ...

In 1987, Adele Wheeler is a depressed single mother who lives in a rural home with her 13-year-old son, Henry. While they are shopping, a bloody man approaches Henry and makes them take him home to look after him. The man is revealed to be Frank Chambers, an escaped convict wanted by police. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Frank is a Vietnam War veteran who married his pregnant girlfriend, Mandy Chambers. A year after the baby’s birth, Frank and Mandy had a fight, in which he asked if he was the father. He pushed her against a radiator, resulting in her death. Simultaneously, through imagery, it is implied that the baby drowned. Frank was placed in prison for ...

As with its predecessor, the series is set in a fictional universe in which certain people can manipulate, or “bend”, one of the four elements: water, earth, fire, or air. Only one individual, the “Avatar”, can bend all four elements, and is responsible for maintaining balance in the world. The series follows Avatar Korra, the successor and reincarnation of Aang from the previous series, as she faces political and spiritual unrest in a modernizing world. The series has been lauded for its writing and production values, and has been nominated for and won awards such as the Annie Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Gracie Award. The series was also praised for ...

Gravity Falls is an American mystery comedy animated television series created by Alex Hirsch for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The series ran from June 15, 2012, to February 15, 2016. The series follows the adventures of Dipper Pines (voiced by Jason Ritter) and his twin sister Mabel who are sent to spend the summer with their great-uncle (or “Grunkle”) Stan in Gravity Falls, Oregon, a mysterious town full of paranormal incidents and supernatural creatures. The kids help Stan run “The Mystery Shack”, the tourist trap that he owns, while also investigating the local mysteries. For their summer vacation, 12-year-old ...

Supervillain Megamind and his arch-nemesis, the superhero Metro Man, were both infants that were sent to Earth by their dying planets. Though both arrived in Metro City at the same time, Metro Man was raised in a mansion, while Megamind was raised by prisoners. In the present, Megamind, aided by his fish-like companion Minion, frequently and unsuccessfully battles Metro Man for control of the city. At the grand opening of the new Metro Man Museum, Megamind escapes his prison, kidnaps reporter Roxanne Ritchi, and lures Metro Man to an abandoned observatory to rescue her. Once there, Metro Man collapses, claiming the copper-lined observatory roof weakens his powers; Megamind then shoots ...

Joel Reynolds is the owner and founder of Reynolds Extract, a flavoring-extracts company. Although his business is successful, his marriage lacks passion. He is also often accosted by his annoying neighbor, Nathan. One day, a series of mishaps occur at the extract factory, resulting in an employee, Step, losing a testicle. Cindy, a con artist, reads a news story about the accident. Hatching a get-rich-quick scheme, she gets a temporary job at the factory, manipulating Joel into giving her more information about Step. She also begins a series of petty thefts from her co-workers, who openly accuse each other of the thefts. Although Step initially decides not to sue the company, he ...