Programs that work over USB to siphon off information and install apps surreptitiously on a fully locked cellphone are widely available. The cops use them extensively...
That might make calling home to get a ride when you missed the bus or stayed after school for something, a bit more difficult. I imagine parent's got their children phones for a purpose, and leaving them at home likely defeats it...
"War Plan Red" is odd... The US has long had some single-minded obsession with invading Canada that I just can't understand... Happened during the revolutionary war. It was step #1 in the war of 1812, which went wrong and incidentally the White House was burned down. Then with the Oregon territory dispute of "54-40 or Fight!" fame, as if history had shown war to be such a great idea.
Whatever obsessed Napoleon with Russia seems to exist in US/Canada relations, too.
It seems that most of them are available for purchase on DVD at Amazon.com RIGHT NOW. This is just the NYPost being dumb.
* "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1938" is $20 * "The Glass Menagerie" WAS available last year, but now out-of-stock. * Little Darlings (1980) is $28. * ‘Fedora’ (1978) is $14. * Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1978) is a rarity and going for $200 * ‘Movie Movie’ (1978) is $27
And that's good enough for me to dismiss the article as complete nonsense. Besides, they even mention several are available on Blu-ray or Amazon instant video download, which is just as good if not better than DVD, making this list pretty well completely pointless.
I guess people just prefer to say champagne, just as they prefer to say Kleenex, Aspirin, and others. Still not sure you can genericize an actual location, like Champagné, France, just because "sparkling wine" doesn't roll off the tongue.
Buffy didn't "bomb" at all, it turned a very tidy profit from the get-go. If it had "bombed", Fox wouldn't have "wanted to capitalize on its success". Article can't even agree with itself from one paragraph to the next...
Pretty sure Austin Powers, whose release pre-dates his first appearance on Buffy (TV), is what made Seth Green famous.
There are plenty of better atypical (or anti-) Christmas movies to choose from:
Long Kiss Goodnight Die Hard 1 & 2 Gremlins Christmas Vacation Scrooged Lethal Weapon Batman Returns Nightmare Before Christmas Edward Scissorhands Jack Frost (1996) Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) Black Christmas (1974) Christmas Evil (1980) The Ref (1994)
What? I neither love it nor hate it. It was a mediocre movie that failed to have redeeming qualities. Much like the list of 5 obvious and mundane factoids linked to.
I don't buy it. I know a couple people who still just use dirt in their litter boxes, with cats that never go outside. And for the record, their homes don't stink at all.
I imagine the effects tenuously attributed to clay litter were instead caused by increasing urbanization, disposable income, leisure time, etc.
The surprise-ending of Star Trek: Bread and Circuses is quite jarring to a modern audience... Everyone's face lights-up when they realize the sun worshipers they were helping were actually worshiping "not the sun up in the sky [but] the Son of God". Rather heavy-handed pro-Christian theme, which, while innocuous, is quite shocking with today's pervasive political correctness.
That's NOTHING compared to what beach-front property owners do. The beaches may be public property, but private developers are allowed to buy up miles and miles of land, and refuse to allow anyone to park nearby, or even walk through to the beach. It's not strictly illegal, and it's a clear-cut case of public lands being stolen and locked-up for private use by the wealthy.
Nokia's Here.com for Android (beta) is free and has offline maps for most of the world. It's better than many expensive paid offline map apps: http://here.com/beta/android/
I remember the absolutely worthless commercials for Fight Club on TV... It was basically the line "How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?" followed by a super close-up of a pink bar of soap with "Fight Club" engraved into it... It was utterly worthless except to put the name out there with no context. I had no interest in seeing the film after seeing the commercial repeated hundreds of times, which is regrettable, because I consider it a great film.
I expect lousy advertising is the #1 problem across the board... Studio execs don't WANT to make a commercial that will tell you whether you want to see a film... They arrogantly take the target audience for granted, and meanwhile focus advertising on attracting those who will NOT like the movie, to get them to buy a ticket regardless. It makes a certain type of cynical sense, but over the longer term has made people skeptical of movie advertisements, and the feedback loop has driven us to the proliferation of formulaic and awful films we have today.
Whatever obsessed Napoleon with Russia seems to exist in US/Canada relations, too.
* "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1938" is $20
* "The Glass Menagerie" WAS available last year, but now out-of-stock.
* Little Darlings (1980) is $28.
* ‘Fedora’ (1978) is $14.
* Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1978) is a rarity and going for $200
* ‘Movie Movie’ (1978) is $27
And that's good enough for me to dismiss the article as complete nonsense. Besides, they even mention several are available on Blu-ray or Amazon instant video download, which is just as good if not better than DVD, making this list pretty well completely pointless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks
Pretty sure Austin Powers, whose release pre-dates his first appearance on Buffy (TV), is what made Seth Green famous.
Long Kiss Goodnight
Die Hard 1 & 2
Gremlins
Christmas Vacation
Scrooged
Lethal Weapon
Batman Returns
Nightmare Before Christmas
Edward Scissorhands
Jack Frost (1996)
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Black Christmas (1974)
Christmas Evil (1980)
The Ref (1994)
I imagine the effects tenuously attributed to clay litter were instead caused by increasing urbanization, disposable income, leisure time, etc.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Microfiber-2-Pk-Pillow-White-Standard/14123148
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6mw0FVjrI
I expect lousy advertising is the #1 problem across the board... Studio execs don't WANT to make a commercial that will tell you whether you want to see a film... They arrogantly take the target audience for granted, and meanwhile focus advertising on attracting those who will NOT like the movie, to get them to buy a ticket regardless. It makes a certain type of cynical sense, but over the longer term has made people skeptical of movie advertisements, and the feedback loop has driven us to the proliferation of formulaic and awful films we have today.