Help me find non-boring media that wraps you in a warm (or fierce) blanket of compassion or simply leaves you with a sense of gentle warmth, safety, or contentment?
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posted by zeek321
on Feb 15, 2013 -
57 answers
Can anyone tell me where I could find a copy (legit or not) of the 1974 TV movie "The Little Match Girl" (IMDB info
here) that starred Lynsey Baxter. It was a great, particularly dark version, and I'd like to show it to my family this holiday. Any leads appreciated. It was originally produced by a TV station in Cincinnatti. I am not interested in any other version than this one. Thanks!
posted by cmp4Meta
on Dec 8, 2012 -
6 answers
Early Christmas Present filter: We got a new tv last night. Help us decide on the best movies to watch to "break it in"
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posted by PuppetMcSockerson
on Nov 30, 2012 -
29 answers
I've seen The Twilight Zone. I've seen The Outer Limits. I've seen Tales From the Darkside. I've seen (and, puns notwithstanding, was bored by) Tales From the Crypt. I've seen Night Gallery. What else is there for me to see?
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posted by windykites
on Sep 14, 2012 -
41 answers
TV/Movie Title Sequence Filter: For production reference I'm trying to figure out what tv/movie title sequence I am picturing - it's from the 60s (or has that retro feel), is an animation of/or including straight lines in different arrangements, they are (sometimes?) blue.
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posted by auntietennis
on Jul 23, 2012 -
11 answers
What strange sci-fi movie or show am I sort-of remembering from ~20-22 years ago featuring a woman giving birth to an egg through her belly button?
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posted by shortyJBot
on Jun 9, 2012 -
8 answers
What early to mid 70s (probably made for TV) sci-fi movie am I half-remembering?
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posted by kimota
on Jun 9, 2012 -
11 answers
Looking for more examples of a plot. Well, more of a structure really. The one from Noises Off, where you are shown how the story should go, then they go through it again, only this time everything goes wrong. Bonus points if they go through it a third time, and it absolutely explodes.
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posted by Garm
on May 6, 2012 -
18 answers
I'm looking for lists of TV shows and movies that have characters referencing numbered lists of rules.
As examples in Wedding Crashers they reference a random assortment of rules e.g. Rule #110: Never walk away from a crasher in a funny jacket. Fight Club has "First Rule of fight club is..."
What else has a set of rules like this?
posted by vegetableagony
on Feb 16, 2012 -
30 answers
Google Fu Fail Hulk. When was Hulk SECOND TV movie in theaters? And in what countries?
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posted by arniec
on Feb 6, 2012 -
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How accurate, from a medical perspective, is the typical TV/Movie representation of someone nearly drowning? I refer to the "Receive mouth to mouth resuscitation whilst unconscious, cough up a little water and regain consciousness then everything's fine again." depiction of drowning.
posted by dougrayrankin
on Jan 30, 2012 -
28 answers
Can you direct me to genuinely funny comedic soft-core or hard-core pornographies? Along the lines of naked sitcoms?
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 28, 2012 -
23 answers
I recently bought a new TV, replacing one from the early 90s. And I went a bit crazy plugging in ALL the things. The trouble is... there's still nothing on! Is there some kind of master TV / movie / media guide I can use to tell me what device or service(s) offer what I want to watch?
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posted by marylynn
on Jan 20, 2012 -
7 answers
Is there a real world referent for that bleeping typing noise used in some films as a text (usually a location note) appears on the screen? It's a similar thing to that chunka-chunka typing sound used in the X-Files when the location of a new scene would be announced, but it's like a very rapid, high-pitched "beedeebeedeebeedeebeep" sound played while the letters appear.
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posted by col_pogo
on Jan 18, 2012 -
20 answers
In what movie(?) does a little brother draw lines on the back of his sister's legs to fake a pair of silk stockings?
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posted by phunniemee
on Nov 3, 2011 -
16 answers
What movie or TV show was this? This has been nagging at me for years!
Around 1978 or 1979, when I was 7 or 8 years old, I remember seeing a creepy teaser on TV for an upcoming movie, or episode of something, in which a man wearing dark glasses is speaking to someone off-screen. He says something like, "Don't go in there, kid, unless you want to end up ... like
this!" And then he removes the dark glasses, and instead of eyes he has two things that look like raised, white ridges with horizontal slits cut into them. Something like
Inuit snow goggles, but set into the eyes instead of connected in the middle.
I never saw the show and this is literally all I remember about it. A friend of mine thinks it might be
The Omega Man, but I'm pretty sure it isn't.
posted by Ratio
on Oct 10, 2011 -
6 answers
Can you name the movie or TV show
this image is from? Looks like a classic sci-fi film, though I can’t tell if the set is a spaceship or a submersible.
posted by scamper
on Sep 11, 2011 -
8 answers
This question was inspired after watching 'My Sister's Keeper' and I have vague recollections of a movie or TV show where a young girl is dying and she wants a boy to kiss her (or possibly even more).
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posted by Scottie_Bob
on Aug 6, 2011 -
9 answers
I have some screenshots from a television show, and I would like to post them somewhere so that someone could identify the specific filming location for me (they weren't shot on a set, but on location; the Angeles National Forest area in So. California specifically). I've tried doing this in some Flickr groups but it's been fruitless. Any suggestions of some sites or online communities that could help me out? Thanks in advance!
posted by Tim McDonough
on Dec 14, 2010 -
10 answers
I want to decorate a rec room in my basement with prints and other items that have been featured in movies and TV shows. I’m not looking for promotional things or other advertisements, but prints that are well known from those movies. Someone should see it and go “Hey!! That’s the thing from that movie! Where did you get that?”
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posted by bondcliff
on Dec 13, 2010 -
35 answers
Movies/TV in which the protagonist eventually uncovers or develops a personal power, à la The Matrix?
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posted by moira
on Nov 22, 2010 -
26 answers
Help me identify a movie or tv show based on a half-remembered scene involving a bar patron ordering whiskey and water.
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posted by 1f2frfbf
on Oct 26, 2010 -
21 answers
A friend of mine is being driven crazy by a half-memory of a horror movie or TV show that had the song "Downtown" (Petula Clark's version) in a pivotal scene in it. Does anyone remember this? Not Little Shop of Horrors, though.
posted by Meep! Eek!
on Mar 27, 2010 -
19 answers
I-can't-believe-I'm-using-my-question-for-this-Filter: I saw a cartoon movie as a kid and can't remember what it was. I thought it was Care Bears but the two plot summaries for their movies aren't ringing a bell. Something was going around turning kids and/or bears into dark blobs of unhappiness.
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posted by sio42
on Feb 17, 2010 -
8 answers
I want to use a LCD monitor as a TV. What do I need to do to make this dream come true?
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posted by reenum
on Jan 21, 2010 -
15 answers
Does anyone have any recommendations for somewhat recent (post-2000) TV or movie popular music soundtracks (or some other kind of compilation)? I tend to like alternative rock, but I'm open to any genre.
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posted by cosmic.osmo
on Nov 15, 2009 -
16 answers
I'm looking for examples of the film and tv cliché where images from surveillance video or photos are magnified and enhanced (usually to a ridiculous degree).
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posted by dunk
on Oct 30, 2009 -
36 answers
Weird movie memory filter: I feel like it was a Disney Channel movie. The premise was a 14ish year old girl wanting to be in a boy's band, so she ended up dressing like a boy and they let her in the band. She was also in an all girl band and it happened that they had to perform on the same day. Chaos ensues, and she is found out in the end... Any help is great.
posted by razzamatazm
on Aug 21, 2009 -
12 answers
Please suggest movies, TV shows and books that feature unrepentant, amoral characters
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posted by reenum
on Jun 10, 2009 -
71 answers
Here's a tough question! I'm looking for two examples of films/tv shows that have recipes (for cooking) in the on screen credits.
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posted by niccolo
on Jun 2, 2009 -
12 answers
[TVMoviesFilter] Trying to remember an old, cheap-looking movie from a single rememberance: in a room full of rich people, a magician/healer slides a woman's neck tumor/lump through to her finger, at which point he cuts it off with a knife.
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posted by XiBe
on May 14, 2009 -
5 answers
Movie/TV ID question: a half-remembered scene where a minor (?) character cracks nuts with his wooden hand.
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posted by Johnny Assay
on Jan 16, 2009 -
3 answers
TV Movie ID: A sci-fi-ish TV movie from the 1980s which mostly featured children living on a planet where it never stopped raining.
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posted by DavidNYC
on Jan 1, 2009 -
11 answers
My wife, a high school teacher, has an extra period with her students tomorrow. She wants to show them something (documentary, TV episode) interesting and have a discussion afterward. Suggestions?
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posted by FeldBum
on Oct 28, 2008 -
30 answers
Can you recommend an upconverting DVD player with component output that ignores region coding and allows me to perform any action at any time?
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posted by odinsdream
on Sep 24, 2008 -
10 answers
I'm a classical music aficionado but have recently been watching the TV show alias and love the kick-butt music super-hero music featured there. Help me find more?
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posted by stewiethegreat
on May 8, 2008 -
6 answers
