By 1989 the boombox had established a fairly stable place in the pantheon of pop culture cinema, with the releases of both Do the Right Thing and Say Anything. Can you remember seeing (and hearing!) the machine in earlier films? I'm especially interested to learn its earliest appearances.
posted by billtron on Sep 26, 2009 - 16 answers

Who was the bowler that rolled The Dude in the first dream sequence in The Big Lebowski? [more inside]
posted by cusack on Dec 1, 2006 - 6 answers

Examples of recurring in-jokes or motifs in film and television? Examples I can think of are the appearances of "1138" in George Lucas's movies (referring, of course, to THX-1138), and the numbers 1013 and 1121 (and, subsequently, the times 10:13 and 11:21) in The X-Files, being the birthdates of Chris Carter and his wife.
posted by Robot Johnny on Aug 4, 2006 - 51 answers

Help me identify the ten movies in these pictures: http://www.cool-movie-trivia.com/Tenpics.htm [more inside]
posted by kraagenskul on Feb 17, 2006 - 24 answers

A little help - just curious, but what are the answers to #s 8, 9, 18, 19, 23 & 24?
posted by jonson on Feb 4, 2006 - 11 answers

MaybeMythicalMovieFilter: abcdEFghIjKlMnOpqrstuVwxYz: What is it? [more inside]
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me on Jul 21, 2005 - 12 answers

MovieSexTriviaFilter: Does anyone know of any movies where a couple is sitting in bed after sex and the guy is sitting there with his chest showing, the woman has the sheets pulled up perfectly covering her breasts? [more inside]
posted by plemeljr on Apr 27, 2005 - 11 answers

In the most under-appreciated of the Lethal Weapon movies, - number 2 - Mel Gibson passionately explains to a hot South African Patsy Kensit that you you should always choose fruit from the back of the stack, since supermarkets stack the oldest fruit up front. In Twins, Arnold Schwarzenegger explains that lifting an alarming car above 45 degrees will disable the alarm (discredited here) What "useful" trivia have you learned from the movies? [more inside]
posted by Sinner on Jun 11, 2004 - 36 answers