Movies I Watched in 2024
In this film, Natalie Portman is convinced that Mila Kunis is trying to steal her part in Swan Lake.
What is Black Swan?
In a conversation with several others, Mary means to say she loves chocolate. Instead, she blunders and says how much she loves Charlie, who happens to be sitting across from her.
What is a Freudian slip?
Thessaloniki is in this administrative region of Greece.
What is Central Macedonia?
So basically, you want to take turns marking Xs and Os in this three-by-three grid until you get three in a row.
What is Tic-Tac-Toe?
An oak or maple that doesn't cost anything.
What is a free tree?
The first movie is one of my favorites. The second movie is... pretty bad. And the third one was simply garbage, even though the Portokalos family travels to Greece in it.
What is My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3?
These two terms are used to categorize people into those who are more creative and artistic and those who are more logical and analytical. (But people actually use both hemispheres for different functions).
What are left-brained and right-brained?
Greece is located in this peninsula.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
So basically I'm going to try acting out this word or phrase without saying anything and you have to guess what it is.
What are charades?
A drape that is right 100% of the time.
What is a certain curtain?
DAILY DOUBLE!
A recent Northwestern graduate starts working at a prestigious fashion magazine in this movie starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt.
This term for someone who lacks a sense of empathy and morality isn't an actual psychological diagnosis. Psychiatrists use the term antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) instead.
What is a sociopath (or psychopath)?
This is the largest Greek island and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Crete?
So there's these two rows of figurines on either side of this black and white board, and they kind of have this war until one of them can't make any more moves.
What is chess?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This child is feeling emo and doesn't want to color in their picture with yellow anymore. They might want to use this.
I love Matt Damon's Bostonian accent in this movie where he plays a math prodigy (and Robin Williams plays his therapist).
What is Good Will Hunting?
It's a myth that humans only use 10% of our brain capacity, but this 2014 movie starring Scarlett Johansson followed a woman who gains psychokinetic abilities as she starts using more of her brain.
What is Lucy?
This is the historical region that encompasses the Athens metropolitan area.
What is Attiki?
So everyone sits in a circle and then one person walks around the circle and taps each person on the head calling them one kind of bird. But when they call someone this other kind of bird, that person has to jump up and chase them around the circle before they sit down in their spot.
What is Duck Duck Goose?
A gold trinket awarded to the best horse.
What is a stallion medallion?
I loved these irreverent comedy movies where Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play undercover cops who go back to high school (and college) to bust drug rings.
What are 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street?
There was fear that split-second stimuli could be used in advertisements to persuade consumers to purchase products, but the effects of this are just a myth.
What is subliminal messaging?
After Athens and Thessaloniki, this is the third most populous city in Greece.
What is Patra?
So basically you have to hop on one foot from this end of these numbers to the other end, but like if two of the numbers are next to each other you can hop on them with two feet. Oh, also, you throw this little pebble to know which number you're hopping to.
What is hopscotch?
This style emerged in France in the 1720s and uses pastel colors, ornamentation, and natural motifs... if Santa Claus wore it.
What is rococo ho ho ho?