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Why would a Mexican band sing in front of a passed out man?
In the movie, No Country for Old Men, Llewelyn crosses the border into Mexico and passes out due to blood loss on a set of stairs. He is waken up by a Mexican band singing right in front of him.
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Who are Guinness and Genghis Khan Capone in Being John Malkovich?
Here's a little bit of context from Being John Malkovich (1999):
Mr. Lester: Floris, get Guinness on the phone.
Floris: Ah, yes, sir. Genghis Khan Capone. Fine.
Mr. Lester: Damn fine woman, Floris. I ...
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What is the significance of the test where Mickey is asked to shoot himself in Mickey 17?
In Mickey 17 (2025), there's a scene where Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) faces what's supposedly the final test to becoming an Expendable. The red-haired woman (simply credited as "Red Hair&...
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How did Thor know about the existence of Taneleer Tivan (the Collector)?
At the end of Thor: The Dark World (2013), we can see the Asgardians Sif and Volstagg giving the Aether (Reality Stone) to the Collector.
There are already solid theories about the why, but how did ...
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Late 90s-2000s British indie horror movie where teens or young adults party in an abandoned building and discover they are ghosts stuck in the place
I'm trying to identify a horror movie. My memory is really foggy, so my recollections could be inaccurate or confused with other films, but here's what I remember:
The film was British, and the ...
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How did the Nostromo crew track the Alien's position on a display screen when Ash's portable device was only a short-range audio alarm?
In Alien (1979), when the Nostromo crew is figuring out how to locate the Alien/Xenomorph, Ash unveils his solution:
Lambert: Now we just have to find it.
Ash: I've taken care of that. I've designed ...
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What does Coop mean by "your 5%"?
In the TV show Your Friends & Neighbors, in episode 2 of season 1, Coop, after losing his job and his capital account, goes to a private tennis club and meets up with one of his friends, a bald ...
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How do the soldiers in Squid Game get paid?
In Squid Game, we know that the winner of the games takes the prize reward. But, how do the soldiers gets rewarded? Do they receive any money from participating? They have to get something in order to ...
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Song from multiple shows of This American Life
I really like a song from the radio show This American Life that plays on multiple episodes, for example on episode 813, "Is that what I look like?" (between act two and act three, at ...
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Movie about a dark-haired young woman who possibly had a mental breakdown
I'm trying to identify this movie. In it, I recall a young woman or girl with dark hair standing on an old ranch-style fence (wearing a loose, flowing sort of dress), with the reins of two horses in ...
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Animated TV series about ping pong/table tennis where the main character is a boy with a shaved head and a criss-cross band-aid on his head
I am looking for a ping pong/table tennis animated TV series where the main character is a boy with a shaved head and a criss-cross band-aid on his head, and he has two lackey friends. I am not sure ...
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Why couldn't (or didn't) Ash inform Weyland-Yutani about the derelict ship in Alien?
In Alien (1979), Science Officer Ash is revealed to have been secretly ordered by Weyland-Yutani to "insure return of [the] organism for analysis," even at the cost of the Nostromo crew. (&...
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What is the name of this TV drama (possibly on Netflix) where a welder's wife has brain surgery from a dodgy tech company?
I was watching a TV drama. I cannot find it again, and I have used all the Netflix tools to find it:
Set in the USA, an Irish man who is a welder is married to a teacher. His wife has some brain ...
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What's the first movie adapted from A Christmas Carol but set in a different special day or country?
In the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by English author Charles Dickens, a mean person becomes good on Christmas Day after dreaming of four spirits encouraging him to change his attitude to life.
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Was the existence of intelligent alien life common knowledge before the Nostromo crew's discovery in Alien?
In Alien (1979), was the derelict spacecraft humanity's first encounter with intelligent extraterrestrial life, or was the existence of intelligent alien species already common knowledge in that ...
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