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Cinematrix No. 383: April 13, 2025 Can you name a Jason Statham movie with a number in the title?

I feel weirdly ashamed of passing this one having never seen the Twilights.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 383: Apr 13, 2025

I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2442

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She was made for the gays today.

I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2439

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Roses are red
Violets are blue

I honestly still don’t.

I am very proud of that, btw. Don't you dare come for me.

Cinematrix No. 358: March 19, 2025 Can you name a Rebecca Ferguson prequel or sequel movie?

Jordana Brewster? I was like, Jordana WHOster?!

I got 6/9 Correct
Score: 1648

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Vulture Cinematrix No. 356: Mar 17, 2025

I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2369

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I always forget how stellar this album is until I’m listening to it and tearing up 🥹

Let’s talk about last night’s big winner shall we

Guy Pearce at the 2025 Oscars in a black suit and bow tie.

Guy Pearce, the only celebrity I saw wearing a Free Palestine pin on the red carpet #Oscars

I just like to give a wide range: “Avatar made somewhere between 1,000 and 50 billion dollars.”

I got 8/9 Correct
Score: 2268

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I am so bad at knowing how much money movies make. It’s really my biggest flaw.

POLITICO: Controversial Middle East documentary wins Academy Award (referring to No Other Land)

Controversial in that the premise is that Palestinians are human beings who shouldn't undergo ethnic cleansing or a genocide

I don’t usually share my Wordle, but this feels like a wild sequence.

Wordle 1,353 3/6

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Punk was one of my my first introductions to queerness, and the New York Dolls were a big part of that. RIP David Johansen.

First Person: 'They ban books by Black authors. Then they tell us to celebrate Black History Month.' - Open Campus As state legislatures and boards of regents debate whose histories deserve telling, those of us behind bars have long faced explicit bans on texts that challenge dominant narratives or examine racial ...

"When Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectionality framework is banned, when Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project is deemed dangerous, when Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and other literary masterpieces are labeled “inappropriate,” the message is clear: our full humanity threatens the established order."

Some sketches from the Drink n’ Draw night I went to yesterday. Can you tell which one was influenced more by the Drink part?

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER WASN'T THAT A GREAT MOVIE, NANCY WONDERFUL -- I NEVER HAD SUCH A GOOD TIME— IT WAS GRAND (NANCY READS THE MOVIE REVIEW) NEWSPAPER- MOVIE REVUE WAHHH BAW-W-W YOU KNOW THAT MOVIE WE ENJOYED SO MUCH ?- - - I JUST FOUND OUT IT'S TERRIBLE

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 28,1947

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Vulture Cinematrix No. 339: Feb 28, 2025

I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2504

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Ariana Grande when she sees my Cinematrix grid:

See, not this is one that I cannot do well on.

So, you know that we’re practically neighbours and I saw none of this. Just saying.

Cinematrix No. 337: February 26, 2025 Can you name a Dave Bautista movie released between Feb. 26, 2024 and Feb. 26, 2025?

Not me resisting the urge to ask my husband “what’s the shouty drum movie called again?” Some real blind-spots here.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 337: Feb 26, 2025

I got 3/9 Correct
Score: 815

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ALL FOURS by Miranda July.

This is a novel that will stay with me for quite awhile. Intensely, deeply emotional, with moments of genuine shock and genuine laughs.

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You just need to not have a life, like me 😂

Cinematrix No. 335: February 24, 2025 Can you name a Matthew McConaughey or Macfadyen movie with a 3+ word title?

I did alright, alright, alright on this one.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 335: Feb 24, 2025

I got 8/9 Correct
Score: 2160

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With apologies to Justin Theroux.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 334: Feb 23, 2025

I got 7/9 Correct
Score: 1882

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Every so often I remember that Oprah brought us Dr Phil, Dr Oz and The Secret but the only person she brought back to destroy on her show was the guy who pretended to be a worse drug addict than he actually was in a book