Continuity mistake: As Jizzlord says, "so really, this is a good thing", he's holding the posters upright, facing Jen. Cut to a shot from the side and he's holding them horizontally, facing upwards.
Jon Sandys
12th Mar 2024
Extraordinary (2023)
1st Mar 2024
Killing Eve (2018)
You're Mine - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: After Eve kills Raymond, Villanelle tells her to take her shirt off. In a shot from behind, Villanelle puts her hand around Eve's back. Then it cuts to a shot beside them both, and both hands are in front of Eve.
20th Jan 2024
RoboCop (2014)
Stupidity: Robocop is just about to be unveiled to the press for the first time, and they decide right beforehand is the perfect time to upload a massive amount of data, including his own attempted murder. Then, they seem shocked when that causes problems. No reason to do that right before a very public, time-sensitive moment except for the sake of the plot.
19th Jan 2024
The Creator (2023)
Audio problem: At the start, when at Ground Zero, a robot wakes up, and Joshua shuts it down. The woman he's with says, "What the hell," but her mouth says, "What the fuck," dubbed presumably for a lower rating.
11th Jan 2024
Speed (1994)
Trivia: The famous line "pop quiz, hotshot" doesn't actually have a definite writer. The original script was by Graham Yost, but Joss Whedon was brought in to rewrite it (unhappily uncredited per WGA rules) and wrote most of the dialogue. He said the line was already in the script, while Yost denies writing it and said it was Whedon's. Most likely it was written by another script doctor, Paul Attanasio, but he doesn't recall writing the line either.
11th Jan 2024
Speed (1994)
Trivia: The first bus explosion nearly ended in disaster - the real bus that Jack waves goodbye to turned off while out of shot, then the camera moved around to see the prop bus in its place (towed by a car) that was packed with explosives ready to blow up. But a woman ran onto the set, thinking she'd missed her bus, and hopped aboard, almost missed by the crew as they were at a safe distance. John Frazier, the effect supervisor, spotted her and fortunately stopped the foreman from triggering the blast.
11th Jan 2024
Speed (1994)
Trivia: Joss Whedon was brought in to work on the original script, and despite being responsible for about 90% of the film's dialogue, didn't get a writing credit due to WGA rules at the time. He changed Alan Ruck to be more sympathetic, and created the scene after the elevator rescue when the team is celebrating, but all the characters, story beats and action were from the original writer Graham Yost.
8th Jan 2024
Archer (2009)
Archer: She told you, a woman whose loose lips have sunk so many ships they should be named "Admiral Nelson" and "concept of torpedoes."
7th Jan 2024
Archer (2009)
22nd Dec 2023
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
Stupidity: Kora and Gunnar arrive at the town to find the rebel Bloodaxes via a contact of Gunnar's. They literally see this contact being hauled out of a bar by bounty hunters who work for the Imperium...and then walk straight into the same bar and start openly talking about needing to find the rebels right in front of the bartender and other patrons, who for all they know are all Imperium-aligned.
18th Dec 2023
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)
Trivia: For anyone curious, the quote "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me" was said by Cary Grant - to Pelia, clearly.
15th Dec 2023
Reacher (2022)
What Happens in Atlantic City - S2-E2
Trivia: O'Donnell references "James Barr" as someone who might have a grudge against the 110th. Reacher says he "ran into him in Indiana last year - he owes me now." That's a reference to the book "One Shot", which was also the basis of the Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise, where James Barr was falsely accused of sniping civilians. That story's presumably canonical in this series but is now in the past.
15th Dec 2023
Reacher (2022)
7th Dec 2023
New Girl (2011)
Five Stars for Beezus - S6-E22
Trivia: Sadie's patient who says "it's a real upstairs downstairs kind of day" is played by Katherine Pope, executive producer of the series.
6th Dec 2023
New Girl (2011)
Continuity mistake: When CeCe looks at the contract, she has it flat in front of her when she says, "he's really screwing you." But in the reverse angle, she's got it raised off the table.
5th Dec 2023
New Girl (2011)
Wedding Eve - S5-E21
Continuity mistake: When Jess thinks Sam's about to propose, he sticks his hands in his pockets, then stays quite still in a closeup where it doesn't look like he's moving his hands at all, then in a cut to a wider angle both of his hands are by his sides.
29th Oct 2023
Friends (1994)
The One With Joey's Award - S7-E18
Trivia: The original script for this featured a subplot with Ross seeing Chandler exiting a male strip club, with obvious confusion and assumptions, with Chandler later admitting he only goes there because he likes the sandwiches. Matthew Perry shut the idea down. He's barely in this episode, possibly as a result of this subplot being excised and it being simpler to expand the existing scenes rather than write a whole new Chandler-centric section.
27th Oct 2023
Scream 2 (1997)
Trivia: Debbie Salt's real name is revealed to be Nancy Loomis. There's an actress called Nancy Loomis who appeared as Annie Brackett in Halloween and its sequel, and who played a different character in Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
26th Oct 2023
Vexed (2010)
Episode #1.3 - S1-E3
Kate: You wouldn't have a problem if this was your daughter?
Jack: She's not my daughter!
Kate: She's someone's daughter.
Jack: Every woman I've ever had sex with was someone's daughter, it's never stopped me from playing daddy.
Kate: Urgh.
Jack: I think that might have come out wrong.
Kate: OK, if your daughter was a stripper.
Jack: Why is my daughter a stripper?!
Kate: Ah, so you would mind!
Jack: What if your son...was a rapist?
Kate: How is that relevant?!
Jack: You started it.
Kate: I want you to acknowledge how you'd feel if your daughter made her living by having men leering at her.
Jack: OK, how would you feel if your rapist son attacked my stripper daughter, threw acid in her face, she's disfigured for life, can't even work!
Kate: I wouldn't defend him.
Jack: Your own son?! Some mother you'd be.
15th Oct 2023
The Continental: From the World of John Wick (2023)
Trivia: The name on Jenkins' disguise is "Chuck Spadina." When Keanu Reeves first came to Hollywood, he was told his name was "a little too exotic," and it was suggested he should change his name. Chuck Spadina was one option he considered, although apparently not very seriously.
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