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I definitely agree. Rare is the conversation in which you can’t use the phrase “Cats and dogs, living together”.
If your life was a classic movie, where would you currently be? Currently, I’m just before Walter Peck makes his first visit to the Ghostbusters.
Nice streamy visualisations showing movie box office sales over time.
See all five Oscar Best Picture nominees in one day for $30. Tempting, but I think my head would explode with all that worthiness in one sitting!
Some great insights pulled out of the Netflix dataset. The list of movies “you either loved loved loved or hated hated hated” is particularly good.
The new Scorsese film is getting massively positive reviews — Criticker reckons I’d give it 97/100. Gonna have to break my Leonardo DiCaprio embargo and go see it, I think.
SoaP has had reshoots to make it more R-rated, and to add the line “I want these motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!”. I genuinely cannot wait for this movie!
Everything you dreamed it would be. SPOILER WARNING: There’s an aircraft, and it appears to be infested with some form of cold-blooded legless reptiles.
Nifty tool to find yourself pairs of movies with close finish & start times. This will make our Boxing Day cinema trip much easier to plan.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.