If you've seen more than one Quentin Tarantino film, you know that severed body parts and pools of florescent blood are standard practice. His portrayal of extreme violence ranges anywhere from kinetic release to a comedic punchline. In this video essay, The Discarded Image examines Tarantino's films to explore his signature use of blood, battery, and brutality.
It's hard to imagine Tim Burton's black comedy classic Beetlejuice without Michael Keaton — or as an actual horror film. Beetlejuice in Hawaii, Beetlejuice the homicidal winged demon, Sammy Davis Jr. as Beetlejuice — these are just a few of the close calls Beetlejuice had on the way to the screen. CineFix has the details on what Beetlejuice almost was, and thankfully wasn't.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are coming back to the auto world with their Amazon series The Grand Tour. Since they don't really qualify for Carpool Karaoke, James Corden put the guys up against each other for a timed test lap around the Willow Springs Race Course. Not only do the hosts need to make the best time, they also have to correctly answer a series of ridiculous trivia questions.
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NPR's Tiny Desk was taken over by three humanoid aliens — or robots, or maybe even real men in heavy blue makeup — as the Blue Man Group brought their eclectic ambient sounds to the office. The Rube Goldberg of musical acts brought their own Rube Goldberg instruments for 13 of the most unique minutes in the history of the Tiny Desk series.
At one time, there 48 slot car shops operating in New York City. Now, there's one. "Buzz" Frank Perri owns and operates Buzz-A-Rama, the last place to swap plastic on the great slot car tracks in New York. Since 1965, Frank has been running the slots, and looks to a younger generation to keep the sport alive.
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The Milk Way is about 160,000 light years wide, with our planet only taking up a mere fraction of that. Considering our only spacecraft in transit is taking 2.5 billion years to make the trip through it, human domination doesn't seem likely. But there could be a better way. Roey Tzezana explains the idea of von Neumann machines and how they could aid in getting civilization across our galaxy.
Wrestler André the Giant was huge in the ring, and even the big screen was barely enough to contain him. André had smaller parts in other films and television series, but it was The Princess Pride, in a role written specifically for him, that André's penchant for acting was brought to the fore. No Small Parts looks at André's career in film and how being the biggest guy in the room wasn't always a good thing.
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