What’s more Atlanta hip-hop than a card game invented by a white barber in Ohio?

The difference was that the movie versions of Transformers and He-Man and the like back then were viewed as what they are — soulless cash-grabs that you might go to if your kids demanded it. These days they are considered major motion pictures that people are actually looking forward to.

“And my plan is to hint throughout the movie that we are going to show you you the inside but never do. Instead, the last act of the movie will focus on two feuding brothers for some reason rather than any of the cool mysteries about Hot Wheels we brought up!”

Mitchell & Webb did this earlier and better.

Thomas Hobbes had an interesting take on an inverse Ship of Theseus thought problem — while the original question was whether a historical ship is still that ship even if, after centuries every plank in it has been replaced at least once, Hobbes asked the question that if a second ship was created from the discarded…

Of course given the turnover in the membership, it’s questionable if the band called “Journey” today is actually Journey. Neal Schon is the only member left from the 1970s.

I was thinking the same thing. There’s a pretty strong argument that Agatha did nothing wrong at all

Well, “ads for upcoming movies”, or in other words trailers, have been a thing for as long as I’ve been around and I’m in my 50s. (yes, long before my time they were shown after the movie, hence the name “trailer”, but at least since the 1980s they were before it). So it was always about 15 minutes of those before the…

Of course if this was America, the “fat suit” probably made her look just like a typical person rather than the concentration-camp survivor look that so many “gorgeous women” seem to aim for.

Maybe it’s just me, but when I think of Kevin Bacon I think of 1980s Kevin Bacon and not what he looks like now (which only somewhat resembles his younger self). Assuming the top image is accurate I’m not even sure I’d recognize him as Kevin Bacon. He’d be safe from me (not that I generally confront celebrities on the…

Clerks also has a similar scene that doesn’t quite make sense.

Lee declared to Vulture. They’ve remained friends, and Lee reportedly even gave feedback for the script of her abandoned self-directed biopic that was meant to star Julia Garner

Starred for the The Night of the Comet reference.

I remember that I avoided seeing (the excellent) Linklater film “Bernie” for years because all I I knew about it was the title and that it starred comedian Jack Black and I assumed it was a remake/reboot of this.

How about Airplane Mode? It’s a game where you are a passenger on an airliner and have to entertain yourself by watching movies on the in-flight entertainment system, listen to a podcast on your phone, or read a book or magazine. I’ve never played it on a flight but it would seem wonderfully meta if I did.

And their whole obsession about “voter fraud” (which multiple independent studies have never found significant amounts of) is Republicans panicking that the increasing diversity of America will ultimately push them out of power entirely unless they find ways to disenfranchise/make difficult the process of voting for…

Fans of “The Americans” will remember that “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” was the movie that Margo Martindale’s character Claudia showed to Keri Russell’s character and her daughter to show what life was like in the current (1980s) USSR as she left decades ago.

It’s so weird that the director of that (Christophe Gans) didn’t go on to do great things but ended up making movies based on the Silent Hill video game series of all things. He did make an interesting non-Disney Beauty & The Beast movie in 2014, probably the second best thing he’s done.

Not comparable. A better comparison is slavery (because that’s what Replicants were). Yes, there were a few insignificant hopeless rebellions like Nat Turner’s, but there never was an organized slave rebellion on a big scale. Instead, what organization that existed (such as the Underground Railroad) was just about…

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