screencap Friday: what the flick? #33

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

should we demand better popcorn at the movies?

Den of Geek!, a British blog, asks the important question: “Would banning popcorn make cinemas better?” And then it quickly answers the question with a hearty, “No, don’t be so ridiculous.” But apparently some people in the U.K. think this could be a good idea. Like movie-theater owner Daniel Broch, who believes that popcorn doesn’t … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #32

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

how does this happen?

How does an outlet like Reel Suave get such a prominent link at the IMDB? The site has lots of prominent links at IMDB as a “news source.” I don’t begrudge anybody their links. But this review wrongly credits Ethan Coen as a screenwriter — it’s Etan Cohen, a completely different person — and worse, … more…

“you racist melon farmer”

Die Hard With a Vengeance is on TNT right now, and since that’s a basic cable channel all the profanity has been tamed way down. And so Samuel L. Jackson just called Bruce Willis a “racist melon farmer.” I don’t know what that means, but it’s pretty funny. MORE: Somehow, “Yippie-kai-ay, my friend” just doesn’t … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #31

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

for all your parallel-universe movie needs

Someone had to do it, I guess: the Parallel Universe Film Guide. Browse here and what you’ll find are not imaginary movies — that is, movies that are referenced by other movies but don’t actually exist, like Mant! or Sand Pirates of the Sahara or Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League — but entirely … more…

Kevin Smith: Geek is forever

Fishbowl LA, in its coverage of San Diego Comic Con, notes that über geek Kevin Smith said, at the Entertainment Weekly panel: Geek culture is here to stay. And then Fishbowl goes on to snark that “I’m sure someone said that about Disco and Grunge…” which makes no sense to me. Styles of music are … more…