Trivia: Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who, the show of which this series is a spin-off.
Jeff Walker
7th Dec 2006
Torchwood (2006)
14th May 2006
The X-Files (1993)
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3) - S7-E2
Trivia: Mulder's experiences during this episode bear an uncanny resemblance to the experience of Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ. Mulder is positioned in a crucifixion pose, with a metal crown of thorns. He enters a dream stage where he is no longer a saviour (pursuing The Truth) and can live a normal life - with the woman he loved (as Jesus does with Mary in LToC). Life passes by in jumps, people die. Outside the window the apocalypse is raging and at The End Scully takes the role of Judas in challenging his decision to opt out of his mission.
3rd May 2006
Manchester Passion (2006)
Trivia: Tony Wilson of Factory Records, who produced many of the bands whose music is featured in this show, can be seen at the burger van early in the show.
3rd May 2006
Manchester Passion (2006)
Trivia: The man working on the burger van is reading a copy of The Da Vinci Code - interesting as the book is about the Jesus blood line.
13th Jun 2005
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Trivia: The space shuttle Enterprise appears in the title sequence of the show - this shuttle was named after the Enterprise from the original series (after a poll, and also because Star Trek was President Carter's favourite show). A case of reality imitating art and then art imitating that reality.
16th May 2005
Amelie (2001)
Trivia: Amelie is shot in two main thematic colours: red and green, which vary according to situations and moods. Watch it again with that in mind.
14th Jan 2005
Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
Trivia: The Ice Cold in Alex refers to an Ice Cold Carlsberg lager when they reach their destination - the final scene, where they get their ice cold lager was later used by Carlsberg in an advertising campaign.
8th May 2004
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Trivia: There is a lot of debate about where the nails went during crucifixion, through the palms or the wrists. In the film, director Mel Gibson chose the palms. The Shroud of Turin has the nails through the wrists and skeletal remains of other people crucified (mentioned in books about the Shroud) had the nail through the wrist also.
27th Apr 2004
Doctor Who (1963)
Trivia: Throughout Doctor Who, and in many of the books about the show, there is a discontinuity about what TARDIS stands for. Some people say it is Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, whereas Susan Forman, in the first episode, "An Unearthly Child", says it stands for Time and Relative Dimension In Space (no s at the end of Dimension).
27th Apr 2004
Doctor Who (1963)
Remembrance of the Daleks - S25-E1
Trivia: This story is set weeks after the time frame in which the very first Doctor Who episode, "An Unearthly Child", took place. There is a scene in a house, with a TV in the corner, where the continuity announcer begins to announce the start of a new Saturday early evening science fiction story - it is the announcement which launched Doctor Who - which cuts out just before the title is mentioned.
19th Apr 2004
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Trivia: As a rarity for a dramatic film, there is no disclaimer that states it is a work of fiction and that the characters resembling actual people are coincidence.
2nd Jan 2004
The Saint (1997)
Trivia: The voiceover radio broadcast at the end of the movie is spoken by Roger Moore - the original Saint from the TV series.
29th Nov 2003
The X-Files (1993)
Trivia: In the power plant scene, a worker walks into the control room, there is a bald man with his feet on the control panel - asleep. His colleague greets him as 'Homer' - obvious reference to Homer J Simpson.
23rd Nov 2003
The X-Files Movie (1998)
Trivia: Early on in the film, just after Fox notices that the toilet in the bar is out of order and he goes outside - as he is relieving himself, he is facing a poster for Independence Day - another movie about alien invasion. Chris Carter, the producer of the X-Files, hated Independence Day and so had Mulder relieve himself nearby deliberately.
7th Aug 2003
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
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