How many gigawatts are needed to travel in time in Back to the Future? Great Scott!!! Doc Brown's time travel takes a lot of energy, but do you know exactly how much?...
Three questions about Die Hard We're not going to stoop to the level of debating whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. What are we going to question next, whether Indiana Jones actually affected the outcome of Raiders of the Lost Ark? (Don't answer that.) Released in July of 1988, test...
George Lucas and Carrie Fisher make a cameo as a kissing couple in what 1990s fantasy film? Let us, for now, set aside the fact that the thought of George Lucas and Carrie Fisher being romantic partners just feels very awkward. Maybe I'm being weird, but my brain just doesn't want to process that. But it does want to process the idea of...
What leading man started his career as Prince Charming in a Disney On Ice show? I still think that someday I'll just be sitting in a restaurant somewhere or walking down the street, and some random person with crazy hair and cool sunglasses will walk up to me and do that thing where they hold their hands in front of them to create...
What's the name of Harrison Ford's character in American Graffiti? You know, I just don't get how people back in 1973 went so crazy for the nostalgia that American Graffiti inspired. I mean, I get it, it was George Lucas' big break and all, so yay for that, but who cares about the '50s? Obviously, the...
Which John Hughes movie didn’t have enough room in the budget for air conditioning? John Hughes is one of the best, most-respected, and most-successful movie directors out there. If Bill Paxton transforming into a disgusting, flatulent blob in Weird Science doesn't prove so, I don't know what else to tell you. He surely still had many more great movies up...
What actor almost beat Kiefer Sutherland for the role of David in The Lost Boys? If you're looking for someone to thank for all the cool vampire media we have today, you could do much worse than Joel Schumacher. Schumacher ushered in a new style of depicting vampires with 1987's The Lost Boys, a cult classic that every person should be...