Recalling Carol Clover's Her body, himself: Gender in the Slasher Film, there is typically an androgynous final girl in horror films - such as Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween - who survives the movie. The girls who are more sexual on the other hand, are brutally killed. So on some level, it's as if...

In Grey's Anatomy, series 10, episode 13, two people decide to drive to Lake Tahoe to get married. Why did they have to go to there? Is it something to do with going to another state? (Do marriage laws differ between American states?) Or was it just to go somewhere different? It seems like Can...

Whilst rewatching Mad Men memories of an old film came to mind and I'd like help identifying it. American film, made/set in late 50's early 60's. Starred beautiful woman/bombshell (a Marilyn Monroe type - but not her) Set in the world of advertising Featured a commercial (as part of the story...

I thought that there was a Japanese figurine of Lightning McQueen in one of the scenes in either Cars 1 or Cars 2. In the scene it had a little Kanji character above the figurine. I'm having trouble remembering where in the movies that was though. Can anyone help me?

In many movies, especially historic and the ones related to the classical european/middle-eastern civilisations, the OST is a general mix between oriental music and western modern elements. A prime example is the OST of 300: Rise of an empire. 1) What is this mixed genre called, if it is named i...

Why was no attention made in Fargo about Malvos accomplice being duct taped to a chair and a gun duct taped to his hand? This would be proof there was someone else in town, doing bad things. The cops shot him and there wasn't another thing about the incident in the series.

I know the naming of the country "Panem" already has at least a couple meanings in the books and movies. For starters, it translates to "bread", and is even more fitting when Plutarch mentions the phrase panem et circenses. Does anyone else think there may be a third, unmentioned reference? I w...

Driving head on against a large truck seems pretty stupid, why did he do it? What was he trying to accomplish?

In The Reichenbach Fall, Sherlock is standing on the rooftop after it became clear, that he has to jump and kill himself in order to save his friends. He then starts laughing and turns around to Moriarty, because he figured there must be some code or signal to call off the killers (apart from She...

Can anyone help me identify this movie. A boys mother dies, the father hires a housekeeper and marries her. The boy and stepmother vie for the approval of the father by cooking his favorite dishes. The father dies and the boy leaves the stepmom and goes off to cooking school.'