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I saw The Sixth Sense opening weekend, with an audience that knew nothing beyond the trailers, and yeah, that ending hit like a freight train - still one of the loudest collective audience gasps I've ever heard at a movie.

I was too young to see it in theaters during the original run, but I caught the 3D rerelease, and there was a birthday party of 10 year old boys in the row in front of us. We overheard the mom saying that at least half of them had never seen it. Needless to say, they lost their shit, and it was awesome.

Cinefix Repackages "Making Of Jurassic Park" Documentary From 1994, Movie's Wikipedia Page As New Content.

I'm hoping the movie he's making with Rachel Bloom is the breakthrough, kind of how Rudd busted out after 40YOV.

Adam Pally too. I like the guy and his screen persona, but his filmography is 90 percent Forgettable Indie Movies You Find Buried Deep In Netflix During Idle Scrolling And Go "Oh, Adam Pally's In This?"

I literally just started watching this last Saturday and loving it. Add it to the pile with Happy Endings, Don't Trust The B, Looking and Party Down of I'M SORRY I WASN'T WATCHING THIS SOONER, I COULD HAVE DONE MORE.

I'm fine with this existing as a fan film, but no more. To semi-quote Patton Oswalt, I really don't give a shit about the wandering-the-desert years of Voldemort.

….. I'll be in my bunk.

It's like how people still pay money to see Lauryn Hill, and get shocked when she shows up late, stoned, incoherent, etc.

I still think the Little Shop remake should be one of the NBC/FOX live musicals. It won't be, because there's way too much potential for something to go wrong with the Audrey II puppet, but I think that would suit it better than another theatrical movie.

Funny enough, I saw both Magic Mikes opening weekend at nearly-full screenings, and both times, there were less than a dozen men in the room, and probably less than 5 straight men.

The best tweet about this movie was "Yeah, Arrival's great, but John Cho should have played the Jeremy Renner part, and now you can never unsee that."

That really could have been this entire report. "A nuanced, beautiful LGBT movie won Best Picture in the same year Salma Hayek played an aggressive lesbian taco and Benedict Cumberbatch did whatever the hell he was doing in Zoolander 2. Good work/needs improvement."

Aside from Dave Franco, it also had Zac Efron admitting his business was successful because gay guys want to fuck him, and Jerrod Carmichael saying "sometimes you have to suck a dick to know you don't like sucking dick."

I pretty much only want to see this for Lakeith Stanfield, who quickly became one of the best actors currently working, but he didn't even get a mention in this review, so maybe not.

Some gossip rag on Twitter posted the "first photo of Ariana Grande since the tragedy!" earlier today, and of course she looked like a person who's just undergone a serious trauma, and you had to scroll waaaaaaaaaaay down into the replies before you got someone who wasn't shitting on them for publishing it.

High school favorite joins college favorite to sing song with very strong, bittersweet personal associations after tragedy.

The kind of people who watch Twin Peaks are not bound to traditional broadcast schedules? And the revival of a show whose popularity mostly rests with the pop culture savvy wasn't a breakout hit? Shock!

I think the former, because I can think of a dozen funny people who have done consistent good dramatic work, but the only drama-to-comedy person I can think of with any longevity is Leslie Nielsen.

"Five times bigger!"