Plot hole: In the beginning, Charlotte insists to Velma that cousin Miriam is coming, but Velma says "She's never answered any of your letters." And Drew says she's not coming. But when Miriam does come, only seconds later, Velma and Drew now act like they were expecting her. Velma says "You nearly beat your telegram. We weren't expecting you till tomorrow." It's like the film has been badly edited, with Miriam's announcement of her arrival ending up on the cutting room floor.
kh1616
4th Feb 2014
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
1st Feb 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Other mistake: At the end, Rosemary is attacked by Mrs Potts with a large knife that cuts Rosemary on the left arm, but there's no blood, anywhere.
1st Feb 2014
The Impossible (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Naomi is in hospital, her son gives her a piece of tangerine. One second the tangerine is between her fingers and the next second it's gone.
Suggested correction: It then shows her chewing with her head to the side - she ate it.
1st Feb 2014
The Great Sinner (1949)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning, Gregory Peck is in bed, tied down, when a storm opens his windows and blows out the candles. But when Ava Gardner walks in and closes the windows, the candles are alight again.
31st Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Plot hole: When Rosemary discovers the side door to the church and a plastic knock, from an arrow, on the floor, she jumps to the conclusion that the arrow was shot from the side door. This all makes sense - this knowledge is how they catch Mr Danvers - but there are too many branches from the Yew tree to make this possible.
31st Jan 2014
The Exorcist (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Damian goes to visit his mother in her apartment, the bed is on the right side of the front door, but when he leaves, now, suddenly, the bed is on the left side of the front door.
27th Jan 2014
The Exorcist (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Regan is in the hospital, to calm her down the doctor gives her an injection in the arm. In one shot her gown is up high on her shoulder, but in the next the gown is down around her upper arm - the doctor can hardly find room to inject her it's so low.
27th Jan 2014
The Exorcist (1973)
Question: As far as I can tell, Damian visits his mother at her apartment and says she can't stay here on her own, but she says no, she's not leaving her home. Then we see the mother in hospital. But then Damian is told that his mother died in her home and wasn't found for a couple of days. But she was in hospital, wasn't she?
Chosen answer: She was in a hospital but that does not mean she died there. She was likely discharged and, refusing to go into any type of assisted living situation, was sent home, where she later died. A person, unless declared legally incompetent, cannot be forced to go into a facility. Due to insurance regulations, a person can only stay in a hospital as long as they are being actively treated for a medical condition. Once their condition reaches a certain level, they are discharged-either to a rehab center, a nursing facility, or to their own home.
Answer: In the novel it's clear, that the hospital scene is a memory of Karras.
27th Jan 2014
Hellboy (2004)
Continuity mistake: Manning and Hellboy are in the tomb tunnels when Manning brushes the back of his hand against the blades in the walls, but later he shows the wound to Hellboy and this time it's on the tip of his finger,.
27th Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: When the big palm tree is being installed, Laura is giving instructions from down below, but depending on the direction of the shot - from down below or up above - Rosemary is missing half the time.
27th Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Character mistake: When Laura attempts to feel Karen's pulse on her carotid artery, after the van rolled down a hill, she says she's dead; unfortunately, Laura's fingers are too high on Karen's neck; the carotid artery is deep into the middle of the neck, not high up.
27th Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: The girls are driving when they see Karen driving the van Martina. Problem is: when the girls stopped, there was a stop sign, but when they drive on, the stop sign is missing.
27th Jan 2014
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Revealing mistake: When both Lisbeth and Mikael open their Apple Mac computers and use them, the little apples on the outside should light up, but they don't - neither computer does; they're switched off or not powered up - Mikael even goes to the trouble of connecting his to a power cord.
27th Jan 2014
Kinky Boots (2005)
Continuity mistake: In the arm-wrestling scene, one second their arms are to the side, but then, from above, their arms are in the middle, above the line, but then their arms are to the side again.
21st Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Trivia: Except for the first episode, where Laura drinks a glass of wine in 2 gulps, she never takes a sip of her drinks - wine, apple juice, nothing - except for tea. She pretends to drink, but doesn't succeed.
19th Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Other mistake: At the end, when a policeman pulls an arrow out of Franklin's shoulder, there's no sign of pain or blood, on the arrow or on Franklin's clothes.
19th Jan 2014
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Factual error: When Mikael goes to visit Henrik in hospital, Henrik's IV bags are far too low for the IVs to drip.
19th Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Plot hole: Laura says she knows it's Sam's car in the accident because she recognised the registration number, but the car was angled down too deeply; there's no way she could have seen it.
19th Jan 2014
The Iron Lady (2011)
Other mistake: In the scene where Margaret is wearing a bright-blue dress and a woman is sewing a button onto it while about six men stand around and wait, the woman finishes sewing the button on, but keeps on going, even though it's fixed. The whole thing takes ten times longer than it should.
19th Jan 2014
Tightrope (1984)
Revealing mistake: Near the end, Clint Eastwood picks up a lamp in anger and throws it across the room, but there's no power cord attached to the lamp.
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