August 27, 2024Filming of “The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)” almost stopped after three weeks because there was no white woman in the film, forcing director David Lean to add what he called “a very terrible scene” between Holden and a nurse on the beach
August 27, 2024In Chappie (2015) the first character who gets killed onscreen wears a hoodie similar to Kenny’s from South Park
August 27, 2024In Prey (2022) the dog companions name is Sarii. Sarri means dog in the Comanche language, so this means the dogs name is quite literally dog.
August 27, 2024In Beetlejuice (1988), Lydia celebrates her A by dancing to “Jump in the Line” by Harry Belafonte. Meanwhile, Beetlejuice literally tries to “jump in the line” in the waiting room.
August 26, 2024inside out 2 (2024) in the scene where Anxiety goes rouge and starts to mass produce possible future timelines, that hole scene is a big reference to a Apple commercial from 1984.
August 26, 2024In “Alien Romulus” (2024), there’s a Peñarol flag near one of the Romulus spaceship computers. Director Fede Alvarez mentioned that it was an homage to his father, a Club Atlético Peñarol football fan.
August 25, 2024In Psycho (1960), shortly after Norman is introduced, we see him speaking to Marion Crane, and he has a prominent reflection in the window throughout most of the conversation, symbolizing and revealing his hidden dual personality.
August 25, 2024When the relatively unknown Steven Spielberg was trying to get the director role for DUEL (1971) he was asked to bring some of his best work to the meeting/audition. He showed them the 1971 Columbo episode “Murder By the Book” which hadn’t even been aired at the time
