The Skeptical Community

So just got back from Bohemian Rhapsody. Musician Biopics aren't my usual genre, but I was willing to make an exception for Queen. Even I am not so...

The ads for the new purge movie got me thinking.

You ever wonder if every once in a while someone gets confused and begins purging on the wrong...

In my effort to progress my mastery of 日本語 beyond The boy drinks the turtle, I have watched various Japanese Originals. Currently watching a...

Variety scoops actor salaries.

For example:
John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf and Sara Gilbert each make $375k per episode of The Conners.

Javier...

Enjoy! :mrgreen:

Nominations here. Perhaps poll to come, if someone feels industrious enough.

I offer two pieces of evidence:

1. The fifth century C.E. Greek historian Priscus of Panium described him as:

Short of stature, with a broad chest...

:lmao:

While trying to remember the name of that great movie for which I gave for a great review that was greatly received on this great forum, I remembered...

Anyone here watch it? Or the original?

Murphy Brown Revival Forgets Its Roots in Desperate Attempt to Join the Resistance
Reason

...

But...

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.

Amazon Prime.

8 part first season. Very well done.

Tom Clancy (Red Story Rising, Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present...

Look what these mutts did to my shoes.

New York's iconic Village Voice folds after more than 60 years
The Hill

Will that's 60 years of organizational continuity, but the old Voice died...

‘Bewitched’ Reboot With Interracial Family From Kenya Barris & Yamara Taylor Set At ABC With Big Commitment Via ABC Studios, Sony TV & Davis...

All actors, even those playing low life meth fiends, all of them have perfect teeth. White, even and complete.

No character in a tv show or movie...

Basically a re-boot of Hogan's Heroes set in 1970. :coolspecs:

w/ Mark Wahlberg

Went because I like Mark. Liked him in Lone Survivor and The Departed. Hoped for more.

The first 5 minutes of the flick are all...

No article in Wikipedia.

Is Vito Battista not notable enough, or is there a cover up? :o

I just started watching this. Think of it as kind of like Black Mirror but arguably better in that it doesn't always have a depressing ending.
The...

So, who?

I think that there is only one answer but we shall see.

The winner will get their outhouse re-done in beautiful aluminum siding.

I was thinking about this flic today. Saw it back in '93. It was memorable for a couple of reasons. First is that I happened to visit the real...

Fun movie if you don't think too hard about it. If you do, you will just drive yourself nuts.

My favorite Dino in the film was the Stygimoloch (had...

Machine Gun Joe Viterbo.

Discuss if you're old enough to remember. :oldman:

I've really been enjoying the latest season of this podcast. Learning about a lot of obscure topics. This Malcolm Gladwell fellow has a lot of...

I like The Rock. He is reliable. You see a movie of his you know what you are going to get.

Skyscraper is harmless. Classic nailbiter. I hate...

If so, were you as disappointed as me in the way it ended

No big showdown with Bushmaster, just him crippling himself with his nightshade...

THAT WASN'T EVEN ME, THAT WAS MORGAN FREEMAN!!!

Any series that begins with a scientist and a child being eaten deserves attention.

Well cast children-- THE CHILDREN --particularly the geeky,...

I was watching a show yesterday and marveled at the lead actors ability to just ... act. No mannerisms, nothing superfluous. It occurred to me that...

Produced by Guardians' of the Galaxy's James Gunn and some other guys, this movie is best described as another in the genre of gruesome social...

Kotaku.com: What Aliens, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park & Terminator Would Look Like As Anime

Just watched the first episode. It seemed pretty good.
Billy Bob Thornton and the dude who played Watson in Sherlock.
Supposedly based on a true...

This could've gone in a lot of different threads here, but it's so good (so far) that I thought it should get it's own.

About 55 minutes in on HBO...

A fave of mine. First learned of him thru Curse of the Demon which was based on his Casting the Runes.

Anyway, came across a very interesting fan...

Why would I watch that. Why would anyone watch that.

White Heat. Still remarkably good but a remake would be interesting

The haunting. Remade but that sucked. Should try again

Hits theaters this week

232 people have already rated it 6.5
I'm not sure if they've seen it. But of those 232, 60% gave it a 10 and 15% gave...

As some of you may know I fairly recently got an Alexa for my wife. It stays in our bedroom and we're quite happy with it. Sure, it listens in on us...

Just askin'.

Wherein we find out if various movies have a Japanese Original TM .

My first question: Three Amigos

Is there some old film where three Kabuki...

Seriously though, does this guy age?

Top Gun was released in 1986, 32 years ago.

There's a mini controversy about what kind of plane he...

Among the Fanfic community things can get pretty nasty too.

The Case of the Fractured Fandom

But then in 2014, just after Season 3 of the show...

Ok, so I'm working an overnight shift, it's around 5AM and I'm watching The Karate Kid on Netflix because I'm bored and enjoy cheesy 80s movies....

In the marketing they say it is less Sesame, more Street . And Sesame Street is suing them over it.

Coming in August.

I won't go to a theater...

I know we like to complain about remakes, but I was wondering what movies people think perhaps deserve a remake. Either because the original had the...

Good God, go see this movie. Do it now.

It was every bit as good as the first one and the first one was fantastic.

Flick got pretty good reviews a ode to british horror of the 50's lies like that. This from Rotton Tomatoes is typical:
Ghost Stories offers a...

It Was a Very Good Year
Mark Steyn

History of the song.

Mark Steyn at his best ( meaning writing about what he knows and not channeling Limbaugh...