Continuity mistake: When Alex goes to see Dan in his office, Dan in the first scene is sitting with uncrossed legs, then his legs are crossed, then uncrossed again.
kh1616
6th Jan 2014
Fatal Attraction (1987)
29th Dec 2013
Alien (1979)
Question: Just after Ripley finds out from mother "crew expendable", she has a run-in with Ash, but he doesn't hurt her - she hurts him - so why does she have a bloody nose?
Chosen answer: Some people are prone to bloody noses without actually being physically hurt. Extreme emotional stress or physical exertion can trigger it by breaking small blood vessels in the nasal passages. She could also have bumped her head at some point off screen and had a delayed reaction.
29th Dec 2013
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Continuity mistake: Just after George's brother comes home, George is walking across the street and a man is approaching him, but it's then a woman that passes him, not the man.
26th Dec 2013
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Other mistake: While Joe is hanging onto a piece of wood, to stop himself from falling into the very deep disused empty well, the eclipse across the sun goes back and forth and back and forth and Dolores looks straight at the sun, which she wouldn't be able to do for more than a second.
26th Dec 2013
Ensign Pulver (1964)
Continuity mistake: When Bruno goes to the Captain, to ask for leave so he can go to his daughter's funeral, he places his cap on the desk in front of him. It slips to the floor, but a minute later his cap is magically back on the desk.
22nd Dec 2013
Rebecca (1940)
Trivia: When George Sanders pokes his head in the car window where the girl is, alone, he says "Marriage with Maxim is not exactly a bed of roses." Joan Fontaine, who played the girl, called her autobiography "No Bed of Roses."
22nd Dec 2013
Rebecca (1940)
Other mistake: When Maxim and the girl are in the beach cottage after a ship has run aground, Maxim sits in a black chair right next to a lamp that is covered in cobwebs - the place has been empty for more than a year; no-one has cleaned it or been in it, except for Ben, the weird one - but when Maxim sat in the chair, there was no dust rising up and there's not a cobweb to be seen.
22nd Dec 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: When the girls are loading the truck with plants for the second time, they are told that the big palm tree will be delivered tomorrow. But there are 4 smaller palm trees that magically appear - the girls didn't take them in their truck and they weren't delivered, but they're there.
22nd Dec 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Other mistake: When the girls see Dan in hospital, his IV is dripping, but in another shot we can see that the wheel on the IV that controls how fast the IV is dripping is turned off; it's right at the bottom, so it can't be dripping.
22nd Dec 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Other mistake: When we see Sam driving, not once does he turn the steering wheel, not even a centimetre, and not when he has a heart attack and collides with a truck.
20th Dec 2013
Mister Roberts (1955)
Continuity mistake: In the opening scenes, Mister Roberts is sitting on the deck of the ship with a folded piece of paper in his hands, but when Doc approaches, the paper is now unfolded.
20th Dec 2013
Eye of the Needle (1981)
Continuity mistake: When Kate breaks her glass, hurting herself, Donald wraps his hanky around her hand, to try and stop the bleeding, but when they start kissing and hugging, there is no blood.
12th Dec 2013
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)
Trivia: Sigourney won the Golden Globe Award for best actress for this film and another Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress for "Working Girl" in the same year - the first person to have done this (won 2 awards in the same year).
11th Dec 2013
The Prince of Tides (1991)
Trivia: Kate Nelligan played Nick Nolte's mother, but she is actually 9 years younger than he is.
9th Dec 2013
Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
Plot hole: In the scene where Louise gives Carrie her new phone, she tells Carrie of her new phone number and Carrie gets upset because she has lost her old 917 prefix; but all Carrie did was throw her phone away into the ocean, she didn't have to change her number. I'm sure, as here, in New York people lose or break their phones constantly. It's just a chance to explain why Big hasn't got her number - her new number - so he couldn't call her and apologise (but what about her home phone number; that wouldn't have changed - Big would know that number, surely).
8th Dec 2013
Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Big and Carrie are discussing the number of people invited to the wedding, Big says it's a circus and retreats to the bathroom to brush his teeth - at first, he has a toothbrush in his hand, but when he cuddles Carrie, the toothbrush is gone.
Suggested correction: It does show him placing the toothbrush down on the counter. You can see his eyes quickly look to the right and you can see his right arm slightly move a little as he places the toothbrush down on the counter just before he embraces Carrie.
5th Dec 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Bobby corners Ray at the bottom of the stairs, which, I assume, lead to Ray and Blanca's private quarters, there is a swimming pool behind Bobby. At first, there's no-one near the pool, but, in the next shot, there are people dangling their feet in the water and a man asking Ray for the papers, plus more.
5th Dec 2013
Julie & Julia (2009)
Question: Julie starts getting "stuff" in the mail from her readers. But when you do a blog, you wouldn't put your address in there, would you?
5th Dec 2013
Julie & Julia (2009)
Other mistake: Just before Julie gets a message from her mother on her blog, we see Julie typing, but she never hits the space bar.
4th Dec 2013
Flight (2012)
Continuity mistake: When we first see Nicole, she has a "bruise" on her left inner elbow, but, later, when she's injecting, the "bruise" has gone.
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Answer: The reason for the nosebleed was a deleted scene from the film. Ripley, in her attempt to escape from Ash, opened a hatch into a corridor which had been previously damaged by the alien (also a deleted scene) and wasn't supposed to be used. She suffered depressurization and retreated back and closed the hatch before looking for another escape route. That is what caused the nosebleed.