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On Friday nights — and special occasions!— IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: You Know, Getting Murdered on a Train Might Still Be Better Than Going to Times Square

The underwhelming New Year’s Eve party is a universal human experience if there ever was one. The holiday is ostensibly the biggest night of the year for debauchery, but burnout, outlandish expectations, and rowdy crowds often turn it into a letdown that makes it a little easier to trade our holiday cheer in for January discipline. But no matter what disappointing experience comes your way tonight, you can take comfort...

Everything Everywhere All At Once is an award-winning sci-fi, comedy, and action movie that thrusts its immaculately well-casted characters into a truly surreal multiverse. For her role as the lead character, Evelyn Wang, Michelle Yeoh won the 2023 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Drama, while Ke Huy Quan's role as Evelyn's husband Waymond won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture. Yeoh and Quan are also nominated in the 2023 Oscars for these same roles, alongside Everything Everywhere At Once supporting cast members Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis — just four of the 11 Oscar nominations the Everything Everywhere All At Once cast and crew garnered.

Everything Everywhere All At Once was written and directed by the creative duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, also known as the Daniels — the same minds behind the surreal 2016 comedy Swiss Army Man starring Daniel Radcliffe.

Walter Mercado gave almost half the world their daily horoscopes, drawing 120 million Latinx viewers to their televisions every evening. Each of the astrologer’s fans got a personal reading which resonated with them, even though they shared their sign’s message with millions of others. Walter didn’t even have to consult his ephemeris. Mucho Mucho Amor, which can be streamed on Netflix, is named after Walter’s signature closing. Co-directed by Cristina Costantini (Science Fair) and Kareem Tabsch (The Last Resort), and produced by Alex Fumero (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson), it is a loving look at the beloved and revolutionary performer.

Walter was one of the first mainstream androgynous Latin American figures and has become an LGBT icon, the Liberace of astrologers. He was also one of the first astrologers since Jeane Dixon to bring the ancient art to modern audiences. Before Marianne Williamson became...