In early seasons during the Time Hunt stage they played a game of 20 sticks - a participant played with Maître de jeu and has always been the one to make a first move. I found out they played a variation of Nim game, which has a pretty simple mathematical solution! Which means that first mover c...

In Arrival we see that earning a new language has done significant changes inside the brain. Can learning a new language really “rewire your brain”?

In The Haunting of Hill House (2018) Netflix series, the character of Hugh Crain, the father of the family, is played by two different actors - one plays the father in the 80s and the other plays the father in present day. I can understand why they would have adult actors and child actors to pla...

A friend claims that his father said that the movie was based on a book. Can anyone substantiate that?

(Spoilers!) Of course, all members of the black order are dead when Thanos snaps his fingers. But could be possible that if they were still alive they also randomly disappear? If so - why they are helping him? When Thanos snaps his fingers he could also be randomly chosen to die, but he has inf...

In Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" (2005), in the Morning when Fagin has brought Oliver breakfast to the Bedroom he locked him in for the night since he tried to run away the other night, he tells Oliver that he caused him and the other boys great anxiety and he tells a short story about a Lad he...

In Deepwater Horizon, John Malkovich says phrases like: You nervous as cats. or We a big company, Mike, BP. or So they the big picture. They the little picture, like you and the malfunction' shitters. But you see, in point of fact, they all kind of interconnected. or Kalu...

I hugely enjoyed Bad Times At The El Royale and I understand the mise en scène lends heavily to the divide between Nevada and California, and there are state-wide rules which are different as per which side of the hotel you are sitting. After the scene is set, and during some characters' introduc...

In "Boyz n the Hood" (1991), when Ricky and Doughboy are fighting and when Mrs. Baker comes out to break the fight, why did she hit Doughboy, not Ricky and when Doughboy asked why she hit him, why did she ignore him?

In the 1st season of Scream, the killer used to call Emma on telephone. In all episodes, a male voice was used. In the last episode, it has been revealed that the killer was the reporter lady. So, the voice should be of a female. Whose voice was used on telephone while talking to Emma?

Indy says at the castle, "... (Elsa) Ransacked her own room and I fell for it." From this we're supposed to accept that Elsa ransacked the rooms (including her own) to try and find the Grail Diary. But Elsa appears to be in the bathroom when Indy brings her attention to the room-ransacking...

In Interstellar, why does Cooper leave to go find Brand at the end of the movie? There's no wormhole for him to travel through. Without the wormhole he can't get to her, otherwise someone would've done it before him.

In Star Trek Voyager “Friendship One” (season 7, episode 21) [1], a heavily pregnant Torres and Paris are arguing about her going down to an irradiated planet. Paris does not want her to go because she is 6 months pregnant, the atmosphere was toxic and that she was “breathing for two”. She agrees...

We already know that Moana is called Vaiana in all the European countries. I am from a German-speaking country but watched the movie in English, which I though was the original version but the main character is also called Vaiana there. So how did they translate only that name? I don't think they...

The dreamers or the "architects" are supposed to keep control of their own dream at all times. However, as we can see with Cobb, the subconscious can easily take a mind of its own. Everyone has a subconscious-desires or people that are strongly connected in their mind whether they like it or no...

The film 10000 km (Wikipedia, IMDB, Mubi) is about a couple with a long distance relationship between Barcelona and Los Angeles. It is almost entirely shot in two apartments, and throughout the film I've noticed that there are only two actors. There aren't even any walk-ons. Therefore I was su...