Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2011 January 15

= January 15 =

How do i find a movie's rating?
I thought it would be listed in the info box, but no. Thank you, --72.221.69.161 (talk) 00:32, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Go right to the source. http://www.filmratings.com/
 * Hope this helps. APL (talk) 00:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * We generally don't list them here in the infobox of articles because there are so many ratings systems throughout the world. To list every one of them in the infobox would be overkill.  Dismas |(talk) 00:48, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks guys, very helpful, except my spelling seriously sucks so it took a while to find my movie, 45 seconds instead of 10....of the horrors :)....--72.221.69.161 (talk) 01:10, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

NBA all-star
Some people think that NBA is an anti-Canadian because it never awards the All-star hosting rights to Toronto whenever that city bid for the all-star game. Is this true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.151.156 (talk) 02:32, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Is it true that Toronto has never hosted the game? Yes. It does not necessarily follow that the NBA is anti-Canadian. NBA All-Star Game might have more information for you. --Onorem♠Dil 02:41, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * There are 29 NBA home arenas (the two LA teams share an arena), and the Raptors have been in existence for 15 seasons. So, even if the NBA allstar game was chosen by a blind man and a dartboard, there's still no guarantee they wouldn have hosted one yet.  You can't claim anti-Canadianism based on the fact that the only NBA team in Canada hasn't hosted a game they should only host every 29 years, when they haven't even existed that long yet.  -- Jayron  32  15:59, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey, don't forget the Vancouver Grizzlies. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:49, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure people in Vancouver forget the Vancouver Grizzlies. If they hadn't forgotten them 10 years ago, they'd STILL be there...-- Jayron  32  20:05, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Morning Football Kickoffs
Hi, my question relates to the UK Premier League, and thus by football I mean Association Football. The standard kickoff time for matches is 3pm, and for TV purposes we normally have an early and/or late kickoff at about 12:30 and 5:30 or so. My question is, do Premier League matches ever start (or better yet, finish) before noon, and if so when did it last happen. Many thanks, 91.85.141.95 (talk) 16:01, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Pretty sure they used to kick off at 11.30am relatively regularly (here's a link to 1 game that definitely did (http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/f6/44/0,,12306~148726,00.pdf). I seem to recall there was a Liverpool Vs Man U game at some point that kicked off early (I think 11.15 was relatively normal at one point) so that the fans couldn't get tanked-up in the pub before the game and cause a load of trouble. ny156uk (talk) 18:20, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Ny156uk's link refers to the Premier Academy League, which involves under-18 youth teams, not senior teams. Morning kick-offs can happen, but are very, very rare. Early kick-offs are typically done on police advice, to prevent alcohol-related disorder as Ny156uk mentions. Occasionally they will be 11:45 or 11:30, but most of the time they are 12:00 or 12:30, so not quite in the morning. Two such matches have just started as I type: Birmingham-Aston Villa and Sunderland-Newcastle. Both of these are matches between local rivals, so the risk of crowd trouble is viewed as being greater. Another aspect determining kick-off time is travel for away fans. An average Premier League match might have 3,000 fans who have travelled to support the visiting team. It would be highly inconvenient for fans making a journey from say Newcastle to London if the match started in mid-morning, as they would have to set off in the middle of the night to get there in time.


 * To give a practical example of the rarity of morning kick-offs, I have been to nearly every Manchester City home game for the past 20 years, and in that time there has been just one morning kick-off - a match against Everton that started at 11:15. It was a strange experience, as the atmosphere was completely flat. One guy I saw came in his dressing gown! Oldelpaso (talk) 12:11, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

I think that sums it up nicely, many thanks. Prokhorovka (talk) 21:10, 16 January 2011 (UTC) (OP logged in)