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What's the significance of the reporter boasting about Pennsylvania?
In The Brutalist (2024) movie features multiple instances of a reporter or narrator
boasting about Pennsylvania's economic potential or achievements using
archival footage, particularly highlighting ...
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Movie or TV show where a man is left in striped boxers after a motorbike encounter
I'm trying to identify a movie or TV show based on screenshots I came across (I have not seen the actual scene).
Here’s what I can describe:
A white man with short brown hair is seen holding a ...
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Is the building Yelena BASE jumps to in Thunderbolts* a real structure in Kuala Lumpur?
In the opening sequence of Thunderbolts* (2025) (also featured in the trailers), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) performs a BASE jump from the Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—the second tallest ...
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Is Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) the first animated movie to include the actors’ names and their roles together?
I know Looney Tunes did include Mel Blanc and June Foray in the credits prior to Robin Hood but I don't think they ever included their roles though.
So is Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) the first to do ...
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Is the ethnicity of the defendant in 12 Angry Men ever specified?
When I watched this 1957 movie, it seemed to me that care was taken to avoid having juror #10's prejudiced statements specify which group he was talking about.
We do see a brief shot of the defendant ...
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What magazine covers and artwork are referenced in the Thunderbolts* end credits?
The end credits of Thunderbolts* (2025) feature several stylized magazine covers, posters, and drawings that appear to reference iconic real-world images. I recognized Yelena striking a pose clearly ...
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Why did Brett and his boys think they'd get away with the briefcase theft?
In Pulp Fiction (1994), why did Brett and his suburban boys seem to think they could extort street-smart, violent Marsellus Wallace by stealing his briefcase and actually get away with it?
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Movie with a man hiding in a dilapidated house in a crappy neighborhood; cinematography has a beige and white aesthetic
I'm trying to identify a movie set in the 1920s or 1930s where a man is staying in this dilapidated house. He’s sitting on this bed in this tiny attic room with wood flooring. There are holes in the ...
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What is the subtext behind the line "When you were my age, how did you broaden your social life?" in The Queen's Gambit?
What subtext did I miss in The Queen's Gambit?
Beth asks, "When you were my age, how did you broaden your social life?" after her adopted mother criticizes her preference for a chess ...
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Turkish movie or TV series where a husband slaps his wife multiple times
I'm trying to identify a Turkish movie or TV series I saw in a mobile app ad. The ad showed a scene where a man slaps his wife, hitting her 3-4 times. Does anyone know which movie or TV series this ...
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Can the cardinals vote for a non-voting cardinal in "Conclave"?
In Conclave (2024), it appears that there were only 100-plus cardinals present. This appears to be fewer than the number of actual cardinals in the fictional world/time they are presenting.
However, ...
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Late 80s horror film with a country club door leading to hell and an astronaut in a dream sequence
Trying to find out the name of a horror film from probably the late 80s. Haven't got many details, as it's been years since I last thought about it. But within the film, there is a scene in a country ...
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Movie about a ghost that appears only in the darkness and haunts a family, resulting in the father's death
I'm trying to identify a movie in which the ghost appears only in the darkness. There is a family with a mother, father, and a little kid. His elder sister lives alone as she finds something wrong ...
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Significance of number 528491 in Inception?
Does the number 528491 in Inception have any significance, or is it just a random number?
Or is it related to Saito's first test extraction and this number is from Saito, not from Fischer?
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Short European animated movie about God creating and deleting failed planets
Can someone help me identify a short 2D animated film I saw around 2005?
I watched a short 2D animated film around 2005 (possibly European, with Italian-sounding names in the credits), and I’ve been ...
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Why was the new Death Star larger than the original Death Star?
The new Death Star, under construction in Return of the Jedi (1983), is markedly larger than the original Death Star in A New Hope (1977).
Graphical comparisons appear to vary widely, but this image ...
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Why didn't Harry answer Harrison's logical question about finance?
Wealthy individual Harrison's son, Harry, expressed concern to Laszlo,
the architect hired by Harrison, about information from Leslie, the builder,
that Laszlo planned to reinvest his fee. Harry ...
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Movie perhaps called "America," following an immigrant and his rich best friend, and featuring the Apollo 11 moon landing
I'm trying to identify a movie I remember having watched in the 1980s that has stuck with me since then. It tracks a young man and a friend, and, while I think I know the name of the movie, it seems ...
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What is Oppenheimer dismissing or rejecting here?
In film Oppenheimer, there's this conversation between Oppenheimer and Colonel Groves. This is the first time they met, and Groves came to see Oppenheimer to recruit him as the director of Manhattan ...
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Why does a bite kill you when everyone is already infected in The Walking Dead?
The Walking Dead follows one of the most basic principles of zombie fiction: you get bit (or scratched), you turn. It's later revealed that everyone who dies (no matter the method) will turn because ...
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How did Steve obtain elytra in A Minecraft Movie?
In A Minecraft Movie (2025), Steve is shown as having at least three elytra. In the game, elytra are only obtainable in end cities and can only be returned to the Overworld by defeating the Ender ...
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Unrecognized lyrics in "Immolation" from Schindler's List soundtrack
Whenever I google for the Lyrics of
Immolation (With Our Lives, We Give Life) I get "This is an instrumental" but that is clearly wrong. People sing something which sounds almost like ...
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Movie about a monster made of garden tools and a goat skull who abducts a cow using a chain and flies away spinning
Looking for a movie, I saw a random scene from out of context on social media. In a minute-long sequence, a monster made of three radial garden hoes with a goat skull in the center rolls into a barn, ...
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How does the alarm system work in "Emergency!"?
I'm a big fan of the show Emergency!, but I'm confused by an element of it -- the alarm sounder.
In some episodes, the alarm tones are an attention getter before every call and the station has to stop ...
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In Widows, what is Amanda referring to when she says, "I got the impression from Jimmy he wasn't so sure about this one"?
In Widows (2018), Veronica Rawlings, the widow of Harry, is on a mission to recruit other widows for a daring heist to steal $5 million from Mulligan’s home. At the restaurant, Veronica meets Amanda ...
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What exactly is Chef Slowik asking them to forgive?
At restaurant, Chef Slowik gives a speech to customers:
Slowik: Over the next few hours you will ingest fat, salt, sugar, protein,
bacteria, fungi, various plants and animals, and, at times, entire ...
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Why does Braxton call his brother Chris?
In The Accountant 2, Braxton sits and talks with his brother and calls him "Chris." This is a reference to the name Christian Wolff which the accountant used in the first movie. But this was ...
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Was the ghost terminology in Ghostbusters made up for the movie?
The Ghostbusters (1984) use formal descriptions for the ghosts they encounter:
Ray: Peter, at 1:40 PM at the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, ten people witnessed a free ...
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Why did Ethan and Benji use the eye-tracker projector screen in Mission: Impossible 4 given their disguises?
An iconic scene in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) is when Ethan and Benji sneak into the Kremlin archives using the eye-tracker projector screen to trick the archive guard into thinking ...
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2000s animated movie where a boy goes through a car crash that kills his parents, ending with a replay of the scene where his parents survive
I'm trying to identify an animated movie I remember watching on a DVD player that had this specific scene repeated twice:
A young boy is traveling by car—his dad is driving and his mom is in the ...
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