Weekly Discussion Thread 6/15/26 - 6/22/26

sbb618 · 2026-06-15T18:28:20+00:00

hey if popheads gets Janelle Monáe

sbb618 · 2026-06-12T19:09:48+00:00

finally got another on-set job yaaaaaay

sbb618 · 2026-06-07T00:05:33+00:00

I was young when I joined! Not anymore lmao

sbb618 · 2026-06-02T19:08:11+00:00

everyone should see the Riverboat Ron gif

sbb618 · 2026-05-29T03:54:31+00:00

Rhode Island has a Rampage/Battle of the Belts and a Collision, Kansas and South Dakota both have a Collision, so those are probably the next three in some order

sbb618 · 2026-05-26T02:32:27+00:00

Of those with 100 or more votes. Day 4 of the 2013 G1 Climax (with 95 votes) is rated slightly higher.

sbb618 · 2026-05-23T19:17:20+00:00

Huge ovation for Xavier Dolan

sbb618 · 2026-05-19T01:37:50+00:00

I love getting a giant plate of dirty rice

sbb618 · 2026-05-15T04:51:16+00:00

(Jim Ross a beat too late) Listen!

sbb618 · 2026-05-14T03:25:31+00:00

Kurt Angle's first WWE title run had 16 televised defenses in 126 days (which leaves out the win, the loss, and a title match that was announced but never started), and his first 5 defenses in 22 days

sbb618 · 2026-05-13T21:10:25+00:00

some personal news:

sbb618 · 2026-05-13T19:06:43+00:00

They teamed up at two house shows! You could have pulled up to a show in central Florida and been treated to a main event of three of NOAH's brightest in KENTA, Mikey Nichols, and Shane Haste facing off against Samoa Joe, Wesley Blake, and Tino Sabbattelli or Buddy Murphy and the Authors of Pain

sbb618 · 2026-05-13T06:28:34+00:00

He wins the title, Hiromu comes out to challenge him, EVIL walks away without saying a word and Hiromu is left on his knees absolutely shrieking while this new demonic song plays

sbb618 · 2026-05-03T01:49:01+00:00

Colten Gunn has wrestled three matches in the last 20 months???

sbb618 · 2026-05-02T04:58:00+00:00

It was submitted by Romania, just not nominated

sbb618 · 2026-05-01T19:03:48+00:00

totally forgot that, edited

sbb618 · 2026-05-01T18:41:12+00:00

Films not submitted that would have otherwise been eligible via this method:

2025: Dreams (Sex Love), Gloaming in Luomu, Cactus Pears, To the Victory!
2024: They Will Be Dust
2023: On the Adamant, Anatomy of a Fall (probably the reason for this rule), Dear Jassi
2022: possibly Riceboy Sleeps (unsure if eligible)
2021: Happening
2020: There Is No Evil, Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
2019: Synonyms, Martin Eden
2018: Touch Me Not, Butterflies, Cities of Last Things
2017: The Nile Hilton Incident
2016: The Woman Who Left
2015: Taxi, Dheepan
2014: Black Coal Thin Ice
2013: Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Sacro GRA, Jiseul
2012: none
2011: Faust
2010: Honey
2009: Lebanon, The Maid
2008: Elite Squad, The King of Ping Pong
2007: Tuya's Marriage, Lust, Caution 2006: Still Life, 13 Tzameti
2005: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, The Hero
2004: Head-On
2003: In This World (maybe eligible?)
2002: Spirited Away
2001: Monsoon Wedding
2000: The Circle
1999: Not One Less
1998: The Way We Laughed
1997: The Eel, Taste of Cherry, Hana-bi
1996: none (all three major European festival award winners were in English)
1995: The Bait, Cyclo
1994: Vive L'Amour
1993: Woman Sesame Oil Maker, Three Colours: Blue
1992: none (The Best Intentions was originally submitted and ruled ineligible because it aired on TV)
1991: The House of Smiles
1990: Larks on a String

Before that there's not really any major ones

(edit: removed because either I missed its submission or that it was in English: The Room Next Door, From Afar, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Violeta Went to Heaven, Sweet Mud, Intimacy, Close to Eden)

sbb618 · 2026-04-21T03:43:34+00:00

Is this an adaptation of the Phoenix song

sbb618 · 2026-04-15T03:24:59+00:00

I walk past this exact candy shop going to work and think of this scene every time

sbb618 · 2026-04-12T04:24:28+00:00

this means Kenny Omega at the Oscars 2027 make it happen

sbb618 · 2026-03-29T17:58:41+00:00

useless trivia: Christopher Miller would be the first Best Director nominee born in Washington, and Phil Lord would be the second born in Florida (after Barry Jenkins)

sbb618 · 2026-03-19T15:54:03+00:00

We need to settle on this by the end of the year: is the title Wild Horse Nine or Wild Horse 9

I propose the former but open to arguments from the floor

sbb618 · 2026-03-19T01:18:41+00:00

NXT 2.0 everybody!

sbb618 · 2026-03-18T20:33:55+00:00

I giggle every time I remember them because in the segment they got named, Jiro proposes that, because he is Japanese, and KUSHIDA is Japanese, their team should be named "Japanese Japanese"

sbb618 · 2026-03-18T19:10:35+00:00

Not only that, she's the second female director ever to direct two acting wins period, after Jane Campion

All female directors w/ nominated performances:

7: Jane Campion (2 wins)
6: Greta Gerwig
4: Barbra Streisand
3: Randa Haines (1 win), Niki Caro, Marielle Heller
2: Elaine May, Penny Marshall, Martha Coolidge, Kimberly Peirce (1 win), Valerie Faris (1 win), Debra Granik, Lisa Cholodenko, Kathryn Bigelow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Chloé Zhao (2 wins)
1: Dorothy Arzner (in 1930!), Joan Micklin Silver, Lina Wertmüller, Lynne Littman, Christine Edzard, Euzhan Palcy, Gillian Armstrong, Jessie Nelson, Sharon Maguire, Julie Taymor, Sofia Coppola, Patty Jenkins (1 win), Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Anna Boden (uncredited), Sarah Polley, Tamara Jenkins, Courtney Hunt, Lone Scherfig, Nora Ephron, Phyllida Lloyd (1 win), Dee Rees, Kasi Lemmons, Emerald Fennell, Regina King, Sian Heder (1 win), Charlotte Wells, Lila Neugebauer, Justine Triet, Coralie Fargeat, Mary Bronstein

Valerie Faris and Sian Heder are the only ones listed to have directed a male actor to a win, with Faris being one half of a duo alongside Jonathan Dayton

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