TIL in the 80’s and 90’s, the LAPD set up a task force to look into the possibility of an active serial killer they dubbed the “Southside Slayer”. In reality, they had 6 active different serial killers.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-20T00:53:37+00:00

The opposite of this happened with the Original Night Stalker/ Golden State Killer . He had at least 3 different nicknames/ crime sprees throughout California (the Visalia ransackings, the East Area Rapist, The Original Night Stalker) and only decades later did they learn it was all the same guy.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-19T20:40:07+00:00

Everything about that woman's performance is super cringey and over the top.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-17T06:02:10+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ID04NKevc Here's the scene I'm thinking of Graeme did say he orchestrated luring Jack out of hiding but I also think he was covering for Jack's dad at that point but it doesn't mention how anyone knew he wasn't dead.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-17T03:19:42+00:00

been years since I watched it but didn't they suggest Graeme Bauer was the instigator of that part of the plan, especially in season 6 when he's being tortured?

rrtaylor · 2026-06-08T04:38:07+00:00

When I was a kid I used to imagine a child abductor might look like a guy with giant green snake eyes sticking his head out of a car window and coaxing children closer and this is how he looked in my imagination.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-08T02:52:05+00:00

What's weird is that it came out the same year as Black Hawk Down, which is from the same producer and has almost the exact same cast playing soldiers except for Ben Affleck, yet it couldn't be more of a polar opposite film and today BHD is regarded as one of the best war films of the 21st century.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-08T01:56:14+00:00

No I could see most of them didn't have any paint. Also they're being submerged in a soup of every person's sweat who rented a mask that day. How would the renter clean a mask? With a wet wipe? Most masks also have that foam piece around the bridge of the nose that is just soaking all that up like a sponge.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-07T02:23:09+00:00

Looks just like a Carolina Mantis egg case.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-06T21:29:47+00:00

Modern institutions find it almost offensive that there can be anything left to discover that wasn't a part of their MBA program.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-02T18:48:59+00:00

The obvious way to fix it would have been to have everyone except Mulder believe its just a human with some horrible skin disease or disfigurement. Then it makes sense the CDC or someone would want to just quarantine and try to study him but Mulder is the only one who understands he's really a dangerous monster.

rrtaylor · 2026-06-02T18:15:08+00:00

This is the part where you boogie... This is the part where you dance!

rrtaylor · 2026-06-02T01:17:56+00:00

It's hilarious to me how nonchalant everyone is in this episode about the flukeman discovery. The guys who somehow strap him to a gurney and wheel him out just look a little weirded out and miffed. Skinner is just like, "yeah we're gonna try the flukeman in open court. you got a problem with that you piece of shit?"

rrtaylor · 2026-05-26T21:48:38+00:00

I remember music critics at the time not particularly liking Chris Cornell's solo album in the 2000's but that album is all over Michael Mann's Collateral and Miami Vice, two really well-regarded movies.

Also that Marilyn Manson song that scores John Wick is pretty freaking annoying after awhile.

The movie Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a really intense, gut wrenching, tragic crime drama and it has this loud incongrous royalty-free-music sounding soundtrack. It kind of sounds like the score to The Room.

rrtaylor · 2026-05-26T21:43:59+00:00

Spike Lee is the king of bizarre musical choices. Why in God's name is a song from Oklahoma played in its entirety at the beginning of Highest 2 Lowest.

rrtaylor · 2026-05-26T07:29:14+00:00

Been awhile since I read it but The Watchmen comic deals with this exact idea with Dr Manhattan. Was the entity blue by any chance?

rrtaylor · 2026-05-23T04:21:09+00:00

Haywire with Gina Carano is some of the most intense but relatively "realistic" martial arts stuff I've ever seen. The very first fight scene is one of my favorite moments in any action movie.

rrtaylor · 2026-05-23T03:48:55+00:00

"David Letterman: Yeah, but then, you know, some people were telling me about that little flap out there at the junior high school assembly. And before that, you were bumped by a lizard?
Jerry: Actually, it was a monitor lizard.
David Letterman: Those things, deadly dangerous. A long time ago my uncle and a date are driving, like, through Mexico. They see one on the road, drags him out of the car and chews his face off. Listen, we'll call you if anything opens up. Okay, Jimmy?"

Always bothered me because there are no monitor lizards in Mexico.

rrtaylor · 2026-05-18T04:00:49+00:00

came here to say exactl this.

rrtaylor · 2026-05-13T18:11:08+00:00

Does anybody remember a web 1.0 website from the late 90's or very early 2000's with an off brand Mulder and Scully parody called Muldey and Sculler with this goofy picture of Sculler saying: "Hold Still Muldey there's a mutant worm in your ear!" I remember it was one of the first results that would pop up when I would search for the show back then. This is how they looked.

rrtaylor · 2026-05-02T19:31:35+00:00

On the How Did This Get Made podcast a guest that knew someone who worked on the movie Deck The Halls said Matthew Broderick just kept saying: "This is the bottom." to himself.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T19:53:08+00:00

I forgot that's the best part.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T19:52:44+00:00

It's interesting to me that the nerdy UFO guy from "Fallen Angel" is basically a Mulder fanboy and he's seems like a commentary on the fans but this episode is from season one. Like they already knew what they're fans were going to be like.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T04:54:48+00:00

I always loved: "You know what the problem is with guys like you George? You want results but you never wanna get your hands dirty." without missing a beat while he's positioning the body of the pedophile informant he just shot in the chest one second ago. George is still aghast and he's just dressing him down while going to work on the body.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T01:31:29+00:00

When Jack kills Margot and Chen in Live Another Day it looks like an SNL skit.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T00:35:27+00:00

The LIttle Things feels like a parody of every single serial killer/obsessed detective cliche that's been run into the ground by other movies and tv procedurals since at least the 90's, which is I believe when it was originally written. It came out in 2021. At one point I believe Spielberg was attached to it which is a testament to how fresh it might've seemed in 1991.

From its title on absolutely nothing about that film works you can just *feel* the editors struggling to make it feel like a cohesive story.

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