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Last Man Standing (American TV series)
Last Man Standing is an American family sitcom (2011–2021, 9 seasons) created by Jack Burditt, starring Tim Allen as conservative sporting-goods marketing director Mike Baxter; canceled by ABC in 2017, revived on Fox.
Last mile (transportation)
The last mile in transportation is the final leg of a journey or shipment, from a transport hub or depot to the traveler's or customer's destination, and is the most expensive part of shipping.
Last Mile (ラストマイル) (2024 film)
Last Mile (ラストマイル) is a 2024 Japanese mystery thriller film by director Tsukahara Ayuko and writer Nogi Akiko, a shared-universe film with the dramas Unnatural and MIU404, starring Mitsushima Hikari and Okada Masaki in a parcel-bombing story set at a logistics warehouse before Black Friday.
Last Night (2010 film)
Last Night (2010) is Massy Tadjedin's directorial debut drama, starring Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, and Guillaume Canet as a New York married couple facing temptation during one night apart; released via Tribeca Film in 2011.
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes (Anoche conquisté Tebas) is Gabriel Azorín's 2025 Spanish-Portuguese debut drama, set at the Roman baths of Bande, Galicia, linking present-day Portuguese boys and first-century Roman soldiers; Venice 2025 premiere, Bisato d'Oro winner.
Last Night in Soho
Last Night in Soho (2021) is Edgar Wright's psychological horror-thriller, co-written with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, starring Thomasin McKenzie as Eloise, who visions 1960s Soho singer Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy); premiered at Venice, released 29 October 2021.
Last observation carried forward
Last observation carried forward (LOCF) is a statistical imputation method that fills missing values in longitudinal data with each subject's last observed value, long common in clinical trials.
Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine: BBC One sitcom written by Roy Clarke, set and filmed in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, 1973 to 2010, 31 series and 295 episodes, the world's longest-running TV sitcom about pensioners Compo, Clegg and rotating third men.
Last of the Wolves (孤狼の血 LEVEL2)
Last of the Wolves (孤狼の血 LEVEL2, Korou no Chi LEVEL2) is a 2021 Japanese crime thriller directed by Kazuya Shiraishi, a sequel to Blood of the Wolves, starring Tori Matsuzaka and Ryohei Suzuki.
Last planner system
The last planner system (LPS) is a lean construction planning and control method developed by Glenn Ballard from 1992, in which the people doing the work make collaborative commitments.
Last Poems
Last Poems is the posthumous collection of W. B. Yeats's final poems, published as Last Poems and Two Plays by the Cuala Press in Dublin in 1939.
Last Post
The Last Post is the Commonwealth bugle call marking the end of the military day, later adopted for funerals and Remembrance Day, Anzac Day, and the daily Menin Gate ceremony at 8 p.m. since 1928.
Last Resort (song)
Last Resort is a 2000 nu metal song by Papa Roach, lead single from Infest, written by Jacoby Shaddix and Tobin Esperance. It topped Billboard's Modern Rock chart, hit UK No. 3, and is six-times Platinum in the US.
Last Resort (TV series)
Last Resort (2012–2013) is an ABC drama created by Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek about the USS Colorado submarine crew refusing nuclear launch orders; canceled after 13 episodes, starring Andre Braugher, distinct from the 2003 ABC Family reality series of the same name.
Last rites
Last rites, or Commendation of the Dying, is the popular name for the Catholic rites for a person in danger of death: penance, anointing, and viaticum.
Last Samurai Standing
Last Samurai Standing (Ikusagami, イクサガミ) is a 2025 Netflix Japanese action series based on Shogo Imamura's Naoki Prize-winning novel, adapted as a Katsumi Tatsuzawa manga; Junichi Okada stars as ex-samurai Shujiro Saga in an 1878 Kyoto-to-Tokyo death game for 100 billion yen.
Last Samurai Standing (TV series)
Last Samurai Standing (イクサガミ, Ikusagami) is a six-episode Japanese Netflix action series released November 13, 2025, adapted from Shogo Imamura's novels. Set in 1878, it puts 292 samurai in the deadly Kodoku game for 100 billion yen; renewed for Season 2.
Last Seen
Last Seen is a 2026 six-episode Australian Apple TV thriller, adapted by Kris Mrksa from Ryan David Jahn's novel The Dispatcher, starring Patrick Brammall as a dispatcher whose missing daughter may have called him; 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Last Seen Alive
Last Seen Alive is a 2022 American action thriller directed by Brian Goodman, starring Gerard Butler and Jaimie Alexander as a couple whose gas-station disappearance plot earned 14% on Rotten Tomatoes; distinct from Apple TV's 2026 series Last Seen.
Last Sentinel
Last Sentinel (Viimane vahipost) is a 2023 Estonian-British-German sci-fi drama by Tanel Toom starring Kate Bosworth, Lucien Laviscount, Martin McCann, and Thomas Kretschmann: four soldiers on a flooded 2063 Earth await overdue relief at a mid-ocean outpost. Distinct from the 2007 film and the Tencent game of the same name.
Last Shift
Last Shift is a 2014 American horror film directed by Anthony DiBlasi and written with Scott Poiley, starring Juliana Harkavy as a rookie cop on the final shift at a closing police station haunted by the cult leader Paymon; DiBlasi remade it as Malum in 2023.
Last speaker of the Cornish language
Last speaker of the Cornish language: traditionally Dolly Pentreath (1692–1777) of Mousehole, last recorded fluent native speaker; William Bodinar and John Davey (d. 1891) are later candidates, and research shows Cornish survived into the 19th century.
Last stand
Last stand: a final defensive fight by an encircled or outnumbered force, as at Thermopylae (480 BC), the Alamo (1836), Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift (1879), and Custer's Last Stand (1876).
Last Straw
Last Straw (2024) is Alan Scott Neal's debut siege horror, written by Taylor Sardoni, starring Jessica Belkin as Nancy and Jeremy Sisto; a waitress fights masked killers alone in her father's roadside diner. 79% on Rotten Tomatoes; streams on Prime Video, AMC+, and Shudder.
Last Summer (마지막 썸머) (TV series)
Last Summer (마지막 썸머) is a 2025 KBS2 12-episode weekend romance drama by director Min Yeon-hong and writer Jeon Yoo-ri, starring Lee Jae-wook in his first dual role as twins Baek Do-ha and Baek Do-yeong and Choi Sung-eun as Song Ha-kyung; aired Nov 1 to Dec 7, 2025, averaging 2.0% Nielsen Korea.
Last Summer in Chulimsk
Last Summer in Chulimsk (Прошлым летом в Чулимске) is a two-act play by the Soviet Russian dramatist Alexander Vampilov, completed in 1972 as his last finished play.
Last Supper
The Last Supper, or Mystical Supper, is the final Passover meal Jesus shared with his disciples in Jerusalem, at which he instituted the Eucharist and predicted his betrayal.
Last Supper (defense industry)
The "Last Supper" was a private 1993 Pentagon dinner at which Defense Secretary Les Aspin warned top defense contractors to consolidate amid budget cuts, triggering a merger wave.
Last surviving United States war veterans
Last surviving United States war veterans: the final living US veteran of each war, from Daniel F. Bakeman (Revolutionary War, died 1869) to Frank Buckles (WWI, died 2011), with VA-verified Civil War namesakes Woolson and Crump and shrinking WWII cohorts.
Last Tango in Halifax
Last Tango in Halifax: BBC One romantic comedy-drama by Sally Wainwright, 2012–2020, five series, 24 episodes; Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as widowed septuagenarian sweethearts reunited via Facebook, BAFTA-winning.