question of the day: What are the best death scenes ever?
I’m going with the shower scene in Psycho, which represents an elegance in the depiction of something horrific that no other filmmaker has come close to replicating.
questions
question of the day: What historical or modern personage would you most like to see a filmed biography about?
And what actor would you cast?
question of the day: What really dumb thing by a character in a really good movie really bothers you?
Mine is Gorman in Aliens not telling the Marines why they can’t use their automatic weapons near the fusion reactor…
question of the weekend: What unusual animals have you eaten?
Which ones would you like to try?
question of the day: What is your weapon of choice for the upcoming zombie apocalypse?
I’m gonna go with the impenetrable bunker and a year’s worth of food, water, and diversionary activities to pass the time till a cure is found.
question of the day: 50 years of Bond, Beatles, and Doctor Who: coincidence or something in the water in early 60s Britain?
Three huge icons from across the pop culture spectrum were born in the early 1960s in Britain. Is that merely a fluke of fate?
question of the day: Which villains deserve stories of their own?
Pop culture is full of villains bursting with personality and charisma or merely so terrifyingly capable of evoking horror that we cannot look away from them. Yet these awesome bad guys inevitably take a backseat to the square-jawed white-bread hero. Time to rectify that.
question of the day: Should playing World of Warcraft exclude someone from political office?
A Democratic candidate in Maine is being targeted by Republicans as unfit for office because she has a fantasy gaming life as an orc warrior. Yes, this is really happening…
question of the day: Are you more likely to want to see a film if you can vote for your city to get an early screening?
Are you excited to see Paranormal Activity 4? Would you be more excited if I said that you might get the chance to see the film before everybody else merely by voting for your city to get an advance screening?
question of the weekend: How many different countries have you visited?
What’s the favorite place to which you’ve traveled? (That could be a country or city or even as specifically local as a park or neighborhood or field or street.)
