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Sadhuram 2 is "India's first philanthropical thriller."

"India's first philanthropical thriller" is an adaptation of the Saw franchise.

Sadhuram 2 is not a sequel, but the first film of a potential franchise.

What was the last film sequel to use Roman numerals in its title? The Hangover: Part III?

Film Idea: A holiday screening of Die Hard at Grauman's Chinese Theatre with Bruce Willis in attendance is disrupted by heavily-armed Germans who believe that Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. The Germans secure those inside the theatre as hostages, except for Willis, who manages to slip away.

The Best New Trader Joe's Items of 2016

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5. Coffee Mochi
Thai mochi ice cream > Japanese mochi ice cream.


4. Mango Sorbet Bon Bons
A delectable seasonal curiosity.


3. Grilled Jerk Chicken Skewers with Mango Chutney
I disappointingly only found these once, but they were a meal to remember.


2. Crispy Crunchy Mochi Rice Nuggets
I eat these a bag at a time, so addictive they are.


1. Hatch Chile Mac and Cheese
Immediately added to my regular Trader Joe's rotation.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

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51. Total Nonstop Deletion! – Abridged (TNA Impact Wrestling, 12-15-16)

Honourable Mention

  • Chainsaw Fight (Ash vs. Evil Dead, S02E10)

Stray Observations

  • Henrietta breastfeeding Ash (Ash vs. Evil Dead, S02E10)
  • "Brand spankin' new hand. Or, brand new spankin' hand?" (Ash vs. Evil Dead, S02E10)
  • Force ghosts (Ash vs. Evil Dead, S02E10)
  • Ash vs. Evil Dead Season Grade: C+
  • "Can't we just convert to Judaism? Scott's mom really loves it, and we wouldn't have to do squat on a Friday night ever again." (Son of Zorn, S01E09)
  • "Any scooper with tuna in it is a good scooper." (Son of Zorn, S01E09)
  • Rosita's aim (The Walking Dead, S07E08)
  • "I put a Rembrandt on mine." (The Last Man on Earth, S03E09)
  • The Roomba vacuuming Gail's note (The Last Man on Earth, S03E09)
  • Gail! (The Last Man on Earth, S03E09)
  • "I'm worth 100 Eva Maries! I am worth 1000 Eva Maries!" (WWE Raw, 12-12-16)
  • "Trust me. It's gonna be fine."
    "Really? 'Cause you said that about Die Hard 5, Jake." (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, S04E10)
  • Schmidt playing Travolta playing Shapiro (New Girl, S06E10)
  • "Christmas is just so stressful, with the lists, and the lines, and the dancing girls at TV Town Song Room."
    "TV Town Song Room? Do you mean Radio City Music Hall? How could you get so many things wrong in a row?" (New Girl, S06E10)
  • "Sorry. I, I took the last Jew thing." (New Girl, S06E10)
  • "Amy Tan has lived life." (Fresh Off the Boat, S03E08)
  • "You white people love throwing around that word – 'impossible.' 'Oh, Jennifer, my bangs are impossible.'" (Fresh Off the Boat, S03E08)
  • "Babies are stronger now."
    "Like weed." (Black-ish, S03E09)
  • Rectify Season Grade: D
  • Beanbags filled with burritos (Jon Glaser Loves Gear, S01E09)


(Jon Glaser Loves Gear, S01E09)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Stranger Things
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Atlanta

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Did you ever see that movie where Will Smith plays an ad executive so shut down with grief over the death of his daughter that his business partners hire actors to confront him in public in the roles of Death, Time, and Love, the abstract concepts to whom he has been penning and mailing angry letters?

But that's not the weirdest part. The business partners want the Will Smith character to step aside, because their firm is floundering, so they set it up so that he believes that nobody but him can see Death, Time, and Love, even when he's shouting at them on the streets of Manhattan.

The plot demands that a private detective film Will Smith's character shouting at Love in the West Village and at Death on the subway. And then the business partners digitally remove the actors from that footage so it looks as if their deeply troubled friend is actually yelling at nobody.

Reminds me of that movie where Will Smith plays an aerospace engineer so shut down with guilt over the death of his fiancée and six others that he masquerades as an IRS agent, commits suicide by jellyfish in a bath of ice, and gives sight to a blind telemarketer for a meat company.

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50. Conan Submits To A Dominatrix (Conan Without Borders: Berlin, 12-07-16)

Honourable Mention

Stray Observations

  • ♫: "Swimming Pools [Drank]" (Son of Zorn, S01E08)
  • ♫: Glass Candy (Westworld, S01E10)
  • "The maze wasn't meant for you." (Westworld, S01E10)
  • Felix thinking he's a host (Westworld, S01E10)
  • Samuraiworld/Eastworld (Westworld, S01E10)
  • "The gods are pussies." (Westworld, S01E10)
  • "Die well." (Westworld, S01E10)
  • "A metaphor."
    "You mean a lie." (Westworld, S01E10)
  • "The divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds." (Westworld, S01E10)
  • ♫: "Exit Music" × "Westworld Main Title" (Westworld, S01E10)
  • Westworld Season Grade: C
  • "A baseball bat doesn't have a pussy." (The Walking Dead, S07E07)
  • ♫: Strand of Oaks – "HEAL" (Shameless, S07E10)
  • "She could be stuck in a pit somewhere, or quicksand, or even worse, slowsand, a slower, more torturous form of dangerous sand." (The Last Man on Earth, S03E08)
  • "The Doors? Man, that's a nice white group." (New Girl, S06E09)
  • "Maybe I've lost touch with the people. Serves me right being such a damn success. I'm sitting in my ivory tower like Dan Brown."
    "Nick, you're a very talented writer, but you're no Dan Brown."
    "Well, if I'm no Dan Brown, and I'm no man of the people, then who am I?" (New Girl, S06E09)
  • "I gotta fix the boiler."
    "Oh, gas or steam?"
    "…Double."
    "It's a double." (New Girl, S06E09)
  • "I've read this same sentence, like, 20 times. Am I ever gonna find out where the red fern grows?" (Fresh Off the Boat, S03E07)
  • ♫: "Two Princes," heh (Fresh Off the Boat, S03E07)
  • "Happy birthday, little Henry. I hope you wished for herpes." (Black-ish, S03E09)
  • "Gear-i, pull up 'Klump diet.'"
    "I love the Klumps, but there might not be enough time to pull that off. You don't want to under-do the Klumps." (Jon Glaser Loves Gear, S01E08)
  • "The cum and joke mines of Mars." (South Park, S20E10)
  • South Park Season Grade: D-
  • RT: I don't know how this owl puppet is possible, but good work, prop crew! (Saturday Night Live, S42E09)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Stranger Things
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Atlanta

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ESPN asked all 128 FBS college football head coaches for their favourite musical artist.

I, in turn, asked some mates to pick this winter's bowl games as match-ups of said favourite musical artists.

The panel:
Me
Adam Robot (What.cd power user)
Ben (professional DJ)
Steven (Gen X musicophile)
Hugo (pianist for Wartime Recitals/live music junkie)
Drew (self-proclaimed "sonic pragmatist")
Russell (black dude)
Riley (drummer for Thrice)

Note: Favourite musical artists listed reflect head coaches during the regular season, so, for example, Houston is Tom Herman's favourite musical artist, even though he is now the head coach at Texas.

 

Jon Adam Ben Steve Hugo Drew Russ Riley
New Mexico Bowl
Van Morrison vs. Trombone Shorty
New Mexico vs. UTSA 		TS TS VM VM TS TS VM VM
Las Vegas Bowl
Michael Jackson vs. AC/DC
Houston vs. San Diego State 		MJ MJ MJ MJ MJ MJ MJ MJ
Camellia Bowl
Eric Church vs. Jay Z
Appalachian State vs. Toledo 		JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ
Cure Bowl
Zac Brown Band vs. Journey
UCF vs. Arkansas State 		J J ZBB J ZBB J J J
New Orleans Bowl
Meat Loaf vs. Pearl Jam
Southern Mississippi vs. Louisiana-Lafayette 		ML ML PJ PJ PJ ML PJ PJ
Miami Beach Bowl
Tim McGraw vs. Otis Redding
Central Michigan vs. Tulsa 		OR OR OR OR TM OR OR OR
Boca Raton Bowl
Tom Petty vs. Toby Keith
Memphis vs. Western Kentucky 		TP TP TP TP TP TP TP TP
Poinsettia Bowl
Fiji vs. The Eagles
BYU vs. Wyoming 		E E E E F F E E
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Garth Brooks vs. Sam Hunt
Idaho vs. Colorado State 		GB GB GB GB GB GB SH SH
Bahamas Bowl
The Eagles vs. AC/DC
Eastern Michigan vs. Old Dominion 		AC AC AC AC AC AC AC AC
Armed Forces Bowl
Kenny Chesney vs. Michael Jackson
Louisiana Tech vs. Navy 		MJ MJ MJ MJ MJ MJ MJ MJ
Dollar General Bowl
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
vs. Eric Church
Ohio vs. Troy 		BS BS BS BS BS BS BS Not sure I've ever listened to either
Hawai'i Bowl
J Boog vs. The Temptations
Hawai'i vs. Middle Tennessee 		T T T T T T T T
St. Petersburg Bowl
Billy Joel vs. U2
Miami (Ohio) vs. Mississippi State 		U2 BJ U2 U2 BJ U2 U2 U2
Quick Lane Bowl
Red Hot Chili Peppers vs. James Taylor
Maryland vs. Boston College 		RHCP JT RHCP RHCP JT JT RHCP JT
Independence Bowl
Merle Haggard vs. Charlie Wilson
NC State vs. Vanderbilt 		CW MH MH MH CW CW CW MH
Heart of Dallas Bowl
Buddy Guy vs. Jerry Jeff Walker
Army vs. North Texas 		BG BG BG BG BG BG BG BG
Military Bowl
Dave Matthews Band vs. Talking Heads
Temple vs. Wake Forest 		TH TH TH TH DMB TH TH DMB
Holiday Bowl
Declined to answer vs. Neil Young
Minnesota vs. Washington State
Cactus Bowl
Garth Brooks vs. The Black Keys
Boise State vs. Baylor 		BK BK BK BK GB GB BK BK
Pinstripe Bowl
AC/DC vs. Kenny Chesney
Pittsburgh vs. Northwestern 		AC AC AC AC AC AC AC AC
Russell Athletic Bowl
Prince vs. David Richt
West Virginia vs. Miami 		P P P P P P P P
Foster Farms Bowl
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
vs. The Rolling Stones
Indiana vs. Utah 		RS BS RS BS BS BS RS RS
Texas Bowl
Drake vs. Frank Sinatra
Texas A&M vs. Kansas State 		FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS
Birmingham Bowl
Drake vs. George Strait
South Florida vs. South Carolina 		D GS D GS GS D D I'd rather listen to an airhorn for three minutes
Belk Bowl
The Temptations vs. Dave Matthews Band
Arkansas vs. Virginia Tech 		T T T T DMB T T T
Alamo Bowl
Prince vs. MercyMe
Oklahoma State vs. Colorado 		P P P P P P P P
Liberty Bowl
The Rolling Stones vs. Fleetwood Mac
Georgia vs. TCU 		FM RS FM RS FM RS RS RS
Sun Bowl
Declined to answer vs. The Eagles
Stanford vs. North Carolina
Music City Bowl
Gary P. Nunn vs. The Gap Band
Nebraska vs. Tennessee 		GB GB GB GPN GB GB GB Who?
Arizona Bowl
Stevie Ray Vaughn vs. Brad Paisley
South Alabama vs. Air Force 		SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV
Orange Bowl
Bob Marley vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd
Michigan vs. Florida State 		BM LS BM LS LS BM BM BM
Citrus Bowl
Creedence Clearwater Revival vs. Stevie Nicks
LSU vs. Louisville 		CCR SN SN CCR SN CCR CCR CCR
TaxSlayer Bowl
Kenny Chesney vs. Toby Keith
Georgia Tech vs. Kentucky 		TK KC KC TK KC KC KC No
Outback Bowl
Earth, Wind and Fire vs. Pat Green
Florida vs. Iowa 		EWF EWF EWF EWF EWF EWF EWF EWF
Cotton Bowl
Jason Aldean vs. Phil Vassar
Western Michigan vs. Wisconsin 		JA JA JA PV PV JA JA [pause]
Rose Bowl
Darius Rucker vs. Jay Z
USC vs. Penn State 		JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ JZ
Sugar Bowl
The Cars vs. Toby Keith
Auburn vs. Oklahoma 		C C C C C C C C
Peach Bowl
Creedence Clearwater Revival vs. The Eagles
Washington vs. Alabama 		CCR CCR CCR CCR E CCR CCR CCR
Fiesta Bowl
Sister Hazel vs. Garth Brooks
Ohio State vs. Clemson 		SH GB GB GB SH GB SH I can't

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[record scratch]

Rock Music: Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

Disturbed recently released a virtual reality experience for its cover of "The Sound of Silence." [source]


Available "due to overwhelming demand."

In 2015, Fred Durst stated his interest in obtaining a Russian passport and spending half of the year in Crimea. He wrote a letter in which he stated that Vladimir Putin is "a great guy with clear moral principles and a nice person." Following that, Durst was banned by the Security Service of Ukraine from entering Ukraine for five years "in the interests of guaranteeing the security" of the country." [source]