Factual error: The map of the western United States shown during the weather report at the start of the episode shows some states drawn incorrectly. Idaho's entire western border is a straight line, whereas in real life, Oregon has a horn-shaped indentation on its northeastern border that it shares with Idaho. Idaho also looks like a crude staircase, with the southwestern border of Montana going down to central Wyoming, whereas that area in real life is around the northwestern part of Wyoming.
Phaneron
13th Nov 2023
X-Men: Evolution (2000)
13th Nov 2023
Better Call Saul (2015)
Hit and Run - S6-E4
Trivia: When Kim is sitting down to eat with Clifford Main, she mentions the place gives Java Joe's a run for its money. Java Joe's is actually the name of the real-life coffee shop whose building exterior was used as Tuco's headquarters in Breaking Bad.
13th Nov 2023
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
Trivia: This film will actually have the shortest amount of time elapsed between installments, releasing around 2 years and 4 months after Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Ghostbusters 2 released 5 years after the original film, the 2016 film released 17 years after Ghostbusters 2, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife released 5 years after the 2016 film.
13th Nov 2023
Loki (2021)
Trivia: We learn in this episode that prior to being abducted by the TVA, Casey was an inmate at Alcatraz named Frank. This is Frank Morris, whose story was the subject of the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood. He and two of his fellow inmates managed to escape the prison, but were never seen again, with one accepted theory being that they drowned in San Francisco Bay. His TVA abduction here provides an in-universe explanation for his disappearance.
12th Nov 2023
The Marvels (2023)
Trivia: SPOILER: The mid-credits scene sees Kelsey Grammer reprising his role as Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy/Beast for the first time since 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. His remarks that Monica Rambeau has entered a parallel universe, along with the set design, suggest that the Fox X-Men films are now canonically part of the MCU multiverse (Patrick Stewart's appearance as Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness never really touched on this).
11th Nov 2023
The Marvels (2023)
11th Nov 2023
The Marvels (2023)
5th Nov 2023
Underworld (2003)
4th Nov 2023
X-Men: Evolution (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Principal Kelly is placing the caution tape across the destroyed restroom wall, he applies it at a diagonal angle. When the shot changes, the tape is now at a horizontal angle, and he is now applying a second piece at a diagonal angle.
4th Nov 2023
Boy Meets World (1993)
Trivia: Will Friedle was forced by the network to cut his hair ahead of filming this episode, as they felt it was getting too long. Director Jeff McCracken knew how upset Friedle was about this, so he went home and cut his own hair to make him feel better.
4th Nov 2023
Iron Man (2008)
Trivia: An Iron Man film was in development at Fox in the mid-90s with Tom Cruise eyed for the lead role. The film never came to fruition, partly because the technology required to adapt the character to screen wasn't there yet, but also because Cruise's asking fee to star in it was not a price the studio was willing to risk on a largely unknown character.
4th Nov 2023
The Marvels (2023)
Trivia: Zawe Ashton, who plays Dar-Benn, the film's main antagonist, actually dressed up as Captain Marvel for Halloween in 2019. Her fiancé, Tom Hiddleston, best known for playing Loki in the MCU, dressed up as Daredevil, while Daredevil actor Charlie Cox dressed up as Loki.
30th Oct 2023
The Holdovers (2023)
Question: Was Paul Giamatti's lazy eye achieved through practical means or CGI? If it was practical, how exactly did they do it?
30th Oct 2023
Boy Meets World (1993)
30th Oct 2023
Boy Meets World (1993)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - S3-E15
Trivia: Will Friedle and Anthony Tyler Quinn were overjoyed that Kimberly Scott was guest starring in this episode, as they are big fans of The Abyss, which she was in. They even brought in their LaserDisc copies of the film for her to sign.
30th Oct 2023
Boy Meets World (1993)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - S3-E15
Trivia: Rider Strong was a longtime friend of guest star Larisa Oleynik and thought of her as a sister. This made it awkward for him to make out with her.
30th Oct 2023
Cobweb (2023)
28th Oct 2023
Lincoln (2012)
Trivia: Daniel Day-Lewis won the Academy Award for Best Actor for this film, becoming the first (and thus far, only) actor to win the award three times. This was also the first Steven Spielberg-directed film to win an Academy Award in an acting category.
19th Oct 2023
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
Trivia: A teacher at a Miami charter school showed this film to his 4th-grade class. He allowed them to select the film they wanted to watch, and they picked this, with nobody realising it was a horror film. Apparently, the movie played for over 20 minutes before the teacher shut it off, despite earlier protests from his students about its content.
19th Oct 2023
Mosquito Coast (1986)
Trivia: Harrison Ford has said this is his favourite movie that he appears in.
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Answer: The best information I read was from an online "People" magazine article. Actor Paul Giamatti says he is sworn to secrecy on how the lazy eye effect was achieved, other than to say it was "movie magic." I hope someone finds additional information and shares it here, as I'd like to know more.
raywest ★
According to a YouTube video from WhatCulture that I watched today, Giamatti recently revealed on the Howard Stern Show that he wore a big soft contact lens, which practically blinded him in that eye.
Phaneron ★