Charles Jr. didn’t die. He’s trapped in the Upside Down. Just like Evelyn’s grandson was stuck there for a few days in the early 80s. Baby Lindbergh will actually be a major character in the fourth season of Stranger Things.

They tried to go John Le Carré as early as season 3 (with the Iranian diplomat that they turned into an asset, which was quite similar to the plot of Smiley’s People), but at the same time they lost their main contact to the intelligence community, who was the late Henry Bromell. Bromell (who was also the showrunner…

The Russian who lost a leg while crossing the border lives under the identity of one Alex Surnow. It’s probably a tip of the hat from Howard Gordon (who was the showrunner on Homeland and on most seasons of 24) to Joel Surnow, who created 24.

Toby Dammit is also a mirror piece to Jacques Tati’s Playtime, at least the first part at the airport. Fellini even uses giant cardboard cutout standees like Tati.

It has already been explained by another technician. When they rendered the fur, there were artefacts, particularly at jointures, as it always happens with animation (check almost every video game). Some of them could be spotted on the rump of the characters, and looked like buttholes or even “fannies” (in British…

The font is Futura Black. It’s also used for the titles of The Love Boat, which is slightly less thrilling.

The James Bond theme was actually a last minute addition. They had asked Norman to write the score because of his experience with calypso and other Caribbean music, but they still needed something with more oomph to carry the action scenes. So, he first tried to write something on his own, but the producers turned it…

Hunt’s style actually came out of necessity. When they shot on location in Jamaica, they missed a few important shots due to time and budget constraints. The quick cuts were supposed to hide that.

It’s a mixture of both. It was a kink for which he asked permission to his girlfriends and female friends when he started being a comedian. Then, when he became successful, he was oblivious for years to the fact he was asking women he barely knew, who were just beginners on the standup circuit, and who didn’t have a…

You’re thinking of The Invisible Man. That’s actually how, in the original script, they were able to locate him.

Derek Wilson was definitely the MVP of season 1. The development Wolf got during his 80s stint was so unpredictable yet made so much sense.

Max wasn’t a “good luck charm”. The camp had been deliberately spared from any attack, to be regarded as secure and to be the preferred destination by the presidents for their joint visit. That’s why the attacks stopped. It was implied as soon as last week that it was unusual, which should have raised a few flags.…

Holocaust deniers are a tiny minority. Skeptics who are attracted to conspiracy theories against official truths are more widespread.

Here’s a belated answer about the production of this movie.

Sinatra’s children have repeatedly told in interviews that their father would have been aghast to see Trump becoming president. Trump tried once to screw him out of part of his fee when Sinatra performed at a Trump casino.

As a few other people have mentioned it here, MGM doesn’t own its Golden Age library (WarnerMedia does). And they’re not even a studio in the common acception, at least not since the release of the first Hot Tub Time Machine in 2010.

MGM doesn’t own the catalog released under its own name pre-1986. But it owns the United Artists catalog (it’s actually, more or less, the United Artists and Orion libraries rebranded as “MGM”), which means that they have distribution rights on the old James Bond titles, which were released under the United Artists…

Lake Bell, who’s done a lot of work on voice intonations (cf. In a World...) plays an English woman in the otherwise average rom-com Man Up, opposite Simon Pegg. Her accent was praised in the reviews, and apparently the crew for the film only discovered at the end of the production that she was an American.

Another reminder that there’s another trainwr... oops movie coming about the murder that promotes an “alternate” theory, Nicole & O.J., which was shot in 2018 in Bulgaria for less than $3m. The director alleges that it wasn’t worth shooting it on location, as O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown’s houses have already been…

I think that “O.J.: Made in America” depicted her rather well.