Wow, google now rules the game “Six degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Type in any actor, “Kevin Spacey,” followed by “Kevin Bacon number” and it will tell you the degrees of separation.
Very cool, but kind of ruins the game.
Thanks, Google …
Quentin Tarantino refuses to answer a question about violence in movies during an interview with Channel 4 News to promote new film Django Unchained. Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks the director whether there is a link between enjoying movie violence and enjoying real violence
Hopkins as Hitchcock. This looks absolutely fantastic.
Nabokov moment in Manhattan
- Mary: "... It's one of those little magazines. I'm mean, they're such schmucks up there, really mired in thirties radicalism. What do you do, Tracy?"
- Tracy: "I go to high school."
- Mary: "Oh really..." [aside] "Somewhere Nabokov is smiling, if you know what I mean."
Ghostbusters IMDB description = amazing
“Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.”
This is all IMDB offers by way of description for Ghostbusters, one single, short sentence, and it still sounds amazing.
#Bill mothafuckin Murray
For the horror movie fans, the top 15 Final Destination Death Scenes. This is kind of terrifying, actually.
By the 10th, it’s hard to keep watching.
I love being a spoiled brat in the age of Youtube, capable of watching a Fritz Lang interview whenever I fucking feel like it. Amazing.
But I’d still love to live in the grand old age of film noir!
Slightly tweaked trailer for The Hobbit arrives online: watch now
The Hobbit has released a slightly altered trailer online, including a couple of new fragments of footage from Peter Jackson’s long-awaited return to Middle-earth…
News of a possible 3rd film to adapt one novel kind of had me irked, but this trailer hits my nerd-g-spot. That’s right. Ladies can have “lady-boners,” and boys can have nerd-g-spots.
List of highest grossing films all time … and it’s depressing
Sadly, there’s only a handful of films that I genuinely liked on this list. C’mon ‘merica, c’mon world.
Highest-grossing films
1 Avatar $2,782,275,172 2009 [# 1]
2 Titanic $2,185,366,147 1997 [# 2]
3 The Avengers $1,365,576,546 2012 [# 3]
4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 $1,328,111,219 2011 [# 4]
5 Transformers: Dark of the Moon $1,123,746,996 2011 [# 5]
6 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119,929,521 2003 [# 6]
7 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest $1,066,179,725 2006 [# 7]
8 Toy Story 3 $1,063,171,911 2010 [# 8]
9 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $1,043,871,802 2011 [# 9]
10 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace $1,027,044,677 1999 [# 10]
11 Alice in Wonderland $1,024,299,904 2010 [# 11]
12 The Dark Knight $1,001,921,825 2008 [# 12]
13 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone $974,755,371 2001 [# 13]
14 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End $963,420,425 2007 [# 14]
15 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 $956,399,711 2010 [# 15]
16 The Lion King $951,583,777 1994 [# 16]
17 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $939,885,929 2007 [# 17]
18 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $934,416,487 2009 [# 18]
19 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $926,047,111 2002 [# 19]
20 Shrek 2 $919,838,758 2004 [# 20]
21 Jurassic Park $914,691,118 1993 [# 21]
22 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $896,911,078 2005 [# 22]
23 Spider-Man 3 $890,871,626 2007 [# 23]
24 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $886,686,817 2009 [# 24]
25 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $878,979,634 2002 [# 25]
26 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $871,530,324 2001 [# 26]
27 Finding Nemo $867,893,978 2003 [# 27]
28 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith $848,754,768 2005 [# 28]
29 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $836,303,693 2009 [# 29]
30 Inception $823,576,195 2010 [# 30]
31 Spider-Man $821,708,551 2002 [# 31]
32 Independence Day $817,400,891 1996 [# 32]
33 Shrek the Third $798,958,162 2007 [# 33]
34 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban $796,688,549 2004 [# 34]
35 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $792,910,554 1982 [# 35]
36 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull $786,636,033 2008 [# 36]
37 Spider-Man 2 $783,766,341 2004 [# 37]
38 Star Wars $775,398,007 1977 [# 38]
39 2012 $769,304,749 2009 [# 39]
40 The Da Vinci Code $758,239,851 2006 [# 40]
41 Shrek Forever After $752,600,867 2010 [# 41]
42 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe $745,011,272 2005 [# 42]
43 The Matrix Reloaded $742,128,461 2003 [# 43]
44 Up $731,342,744 2009 [# 44]
45 The Twilight Saga: New Moon $709,827,462 2009 [# 45]
46 Transformers $709,709,780 2007 [# 46]
47 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 $705,058,657 2011 [# 47]
48 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse $698,491,347 2010 [# 48]
49 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol $693,054,071 2011 [# 49]
50 Forrest Gump $677, 387, 716 1994 [#50]
