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Psychic baseball player? Live Action TV
Ok, so I only caught the last 20 or so minutes of this show and I couldn't see the full title because my TV guide was acting up. I assume this program is a show, not a film, because of things such as the credits at the end being very short, but I might be wrong. What I do know is the show name starts with "The Dark..." but I don't know the rest. I don't particularly want to watch the show, but am intrigued to know more about it because it seemed to have a strange premise.
What I did watch was something about a baseball player who can use psychic powers and is escaping from the government with another man and a woman. I think he gained his powers from a serum. I'm not sure if the episode is a pilot, but it ends with the three on a bus driving away from their city.
A man kills other people who are qualified for a job he wants so that he'll get it Literature
I'm pretty sure it's a short story, not a full novel. There's a man who needs a job. It's a specialized position with only 3-4 other people who are qualified in his region, so he kills them so that he will be the only candidate. I believe he had previously met them at a convention for whatever industry he works in. I also can't remember if we know all along if he's the one doing the killing, or if he just hears about the deaths throughout the story and then it's revealed at the end that he was the one doing it.
Weird movie Film
So I remember my brother telling me about some weird movie, but I can't remember the name. I'm not even sure if it's real or if he was just playing with me.
It was about these two dudes who move into the neighborhood and introduce themselves to their neighbors in a corny way (I'm sure there's a better word than corny, but it was in a strange way). Anyway, their cat gets kidnapped and so they go on an undercover mission to get their cat back.
Anyone know what this is? Or if it even existed?
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if i knew i wouldnt ask
there was a tv show on Nickelodeon , i cant remember the name , all i remember is there was a ginger boy and he had a little baby brother who was an alien king, and two aliens lived with them , they wee purple with either green or yellow spots on their huge head, and whenever any other people would come around they would shrink . only this ginger boy knew about heir existence . in one episode i think he wanted to get yellow braces .. please help , i remember seeing this in 2002-2005ish ... ive been struggling to remember any other details for years . please help i have a bet to win
Old lady. Boy. Moving plant. Film
Posting for my mother: This was a movie she rented in the 80s. Sort of a family adventure type, live action. What she remembers is a boy getting advice from an oldish woman before he embarks on an adventure. After he leaves the camera zooms in on a plant that seems to be moving, and the old lady addresses it like it's alive.
Anybody remember any old lady with a magic plant adventure movies from the 80s?!
White haired guy with psychic headaches Anime
I watched a fairly mature anime (there was smoking, drinking blood, etc) on SBS anywhere from late 90s to the 2000s. Key points I remember:
- This woman goes to this private detective-type to find her brother
- The brother has white hair and he was having these massive headaches that cause him to kill people with Psychic Powers against his will
- When confronting the brother another guy takes off a cloak(?) and he is a man in military uniform with white hair. The military man reveals that the brother is actually a clone of him and he was sort guinea pig for the process for giving Psychic Powers. The military man boasts that the experiments on the clone allowed him to have the powers without the headaches
Just like a doll Film
A film that is about a doll (Barbie?) that turns human and a girl is trying to prove it to her father. She ends up turning back and the girl regrets it.
Two Barbarian Women Stuck in a Well
Has anyone remember a movie that has "Two female barbarian women stuck in a well" scene
Edited by ElfenLiedFan90
An Obscure Work from Indonesia
Alright... A third work that I want to ask:
"So this is pretty hard to find because the work in question came from my country, Indonesia, and the work iirc is a film. The film contains a woman who wore a black bikini and black pants crying to a king and the work's setting feels like in Majapahit Kingdom or Indonesian's Hindu-Buddhist kingdom. And the work also has a ghost whose head is flying and three women talking in the river. So yeah, anyone remember this work nicely especially to those who live in Indonesia?"
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Whats your favorite Woody Allen movie Film
So I remember something, not sure if tv show or movie, in wich a charackter primary charackter asks somone "whats your favorite woody allen film", then the conversation goes something like this: "i dont know, annie hall?", "why", "its the most famous one right?", "why does everyone choose annie hall". Can anyone help? I would really like to see that again.
PS: It might have been in a book but i dont think so, and i think the guy that asked, is a killer
Unknown black comedy, about 20 years old Film
I am looking for a Black comedy seen years ago.
The film starts with a group of men tied to posts. They are gunned down via firing squad.
The rest of the film is a flashback to when the men are still alive.
The movie also has a prison break scene in it, and a chef poisons a high ranking military official.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? The film would be at least 20 years old
Edited by JJJ07
80s-90s Angels Christmas Cartoon Western Animation
I am searching for an 80s or 90s children's cartoon about angels. All I can remember is there was a little blonde angel named Alexander who couldn't do anything right. I'm pretty sure he earns his wings at the end, and it was probably something Christmas related.
Looking for an old 3D Medieval RPG game for PC.
I've been thinking about this a lot, but I can't really remember it too well. A game I used to play as a kid, and one of the few PC games I had growing up. All I really remember was the first mission or quest, where you would wake up one night to the sound of monsters or werewolves or something of the sort, invading your home during the middle of the night, attack who I'd imagine was your wife. You slay them, and kneel in front of the woman, say...something, as I cannot remember, and then passout. I believe after a loading screen, you wake up at day, in some kind of medical area, but my memory is fuzzy.
If anyone knows this game, I'd very much appreciate anyone to give me a title. I've had a desire to play it again as of recent. Thanks in advance.
Edited by n3rd_d4sh
Christmas Carol adaptation Film
I once saw a film of "A Christmas Carol" where the Ghost of Christmas Present had a magic power with his torch (or something similar) that I think might have made people be nicer. I remember that he used it on some random people on the street, and then he used it on the Cratchits and I think it made the latter start talking about how full they were from dinner. I don't know which film this is from, though, and I wasn't able to find any information about this specific version online.
Please help Film
It aired on history channel around between 2006-10 i think i dont remember the wxact year but it was between that time Story was of an army wife cheating affair with his husbands junior i think?it seemed like a very old show there was a scene where the woman came out in a towel and the boy sees her who was there for some bussiness sent by the womans husband i think please help
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Educational Program: Talking Paintings Live Action TV
There would be these kids walking around a museum or castle of some kind, and they would come up to this painting. The painting would come to life, and it would be a famous person from history (like, for example, Erik the Red) and they would tell them about their life and how people lived in their time period.
Cover of Rudolph the Reindeer where he tells the other deer to get lost Music
It was on the radio at work, but as I was on the shop floor at the time (and Christmas music loops a lot less), I couldn't identify it, or try and google it on my phone.
Pop-rock song with a female singer who sounded English. Music
Only lyrics I could make out were 'turn it up' repeated at the end of the chorus and the lines at the beginning of the chorus started with 'turn it' (it wasn't 'turn it up' again). Singer sounded a bit like the singer from Black Honey, if that helps.
"Daddy's Little Girl?" (still unsolved) Film
Family film, live action, circa I don’t even know, late 1990s? Possibly/probably relatively obscure, so if this rings any bells to anybody let me just say you're awesome. Anyway, the movie is about, or at least features, a girl, 12ish years old, whose father is a comic book artist. There’s a scene at a birthday(?) party, at a backyard with a pool; there’s a live 60s-esque rock band who’ve been hired to perform, singing lyrics along the following lines: “ooh, she’s daddy’s little girl” (trying to search these lyrics only turns up an unrelated song.) The other kids there are teasing the girl because of something in the latest issue of her father’s comic book. It’s a vaguely TMNT-esque publication, with anthropomorphic animals as the characters, and the Master Splinter-type character has his adopted-daughter-type figure start wearing a training bra now that she’s growing up; all the girl’s friends recognize this as being a thinly veiled stand-in for the girl’s own blossoming into womanhood, the father writing his own relationship with his daughter into the comic. That's about all I've got. Thanks.
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Weirdly dark steampunk YA book Literature
The protagonist is a mid-teens girl, but her older brother, who takes care of her after their parents died, has disappeared. She eventually finds this other boy, gets taken to a castle/mansion place, gets attacked by some kind of monster, but it turns out her brother isn’t dead after all. I remember really vividly the first scene where she and her girlfriends are watching a criminal get publically “castigated” with a machine that scalds his hands, and it makes her throw up. Also she has a scar on her neck, I think from where her mother tried to kill her... As I said, it’s really steampunk. They end with the girl and the boy taking an air balloon/blimp thing to I think some other plane of existence...
80s childrens broadcast Film
It was educational I think, I mostly remember the intro. It involves a puppet bedroom at night where the child would wake up and move over to his wooden rocking horse where he would proceed to ride it up and out his bedroom windows. I think it may have been a DIC program but its been driving me nuts for years haha
Book on puppet making? Literature
This past summer I found a book online through my state library catalog about making your own puppets, and I believe it was cowritten by Noreen Young (creator of Under the Umbrella tree :) I've been searching recently for it and it's all but vanished! Anybody know what book I'm talking about?
Australian TV show Live Action TV
So I remember this TV show years back and it was a group of teenagers, I think 4 or 5? One was a rich girl, another was a boy who worked at the hotel the rich girls dad owned, then his best friend had pretty curly hair, and another hot guy. But at the end the girl with curly hair had sex with both guys on the same night, losing her virginity. And I believe they had Australian accents? Please help me find it
Book from my childhood-deeply disturbing Literature
It was a children’s book about a kid with a tragic backstory (maybe he was an orphan?) and all he wanted was to try an apple. I think he ended up getting the apple but ultimately did not get to eat it — I think because bullies kicked it in the gutter?? It took place in an Asian country I think.
No Idea *Please Read*
So I'm 15 born in 2003 so this show was most likely around 2005-2008. It also could have been a dream I'm not sure but i don't think so. Now that I'm thinking about it it could be multiple shows mixed together I hope not and don't think it is. I remember this episode with two guys and some monster type thing with shaggy hair, it could talk. I don't remember why but one of the men had gotten a sticker for doing something and I remember the sticker being pretend like they acted like it was invisible. Anyway one of the other two were jealous of the man with the sticker and asked him to share it and he took it off his shirt and ripped it in half and gave it to one of them. and then the other (either the "monster or other man whichever was left) also got jealous and one of them gave them their sticker. It was at the end of the episode till the end (like one minute) one of them would say "hey wheres my sticker" and one would give them theirs and it would keep going. I'm pretty sure it was a curtain close after that. Some added details I remember there was a wall of little doors behind them and the monster thing came out of one of the doors. Now that I think about it the monster could have had a mustache and not really been a monster but he was all gray. And when they would split the sticker they would make really loud and exaggerated noises. Please help its been in my mind for so long and I need to know thank you so much!