Trivia: The dinosaur Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima was named after the principal cast of the film, with the second part of the name using a letter or two from each surname: NEill, DErn, GOldblum, Attenborough, PEck, FErrero, RIchards, MAzello.
Jon Sandys
2nd Oct 2023
Jurassic Park (1993)
29th Sep 2023
Serenity (2005)
Trivia: The antagonist was potentially going to be Jubal Early, the bounty hunter who sneaked onto the ship in the Firefly episode "Objects in Space" and was eventually left floating in the void. Actor Richard Brooks wasn't available to reprise the role, so The Operative was created instead, who shares some similarities with Early.
17th Sep 2023
Justified: City Primeval (2023)
Trivia: Paul Calderon appears briefly as Raymond Cruz, a character he also played in another Elmore Leonard adaptation in 1998, Out of Sight, arguably placing Justified in the same universe as that film and Jackie Brown, given Michael Keaton played the same part in both films.
8th Sep 2023
The Nice Guys (2016)
Trivia: The corpse of Sid Shattuck, which Ryan Gosling discovers after his drunken roll down the hill, is played by an uncredited Robert Downey Jr., who'd previously starred in Shane Black's "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", a film which played a large part in revitalising his career after drug and legal issues.
16th Aug 2023
Psych: The Movie (2017)
Trivia: Shawn says at one point "Jules would never do a Hallmark movie." Maggie Lawson starred in a Hallmark movie called "My Favourite Wedding" the same year this was released.
6th Aug 2023
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
The Gang Missess the Boat - S10-E6
Trivia: Charlie Day was initially uncomfortable kissing Kaitlin Olsen, having been friends for a long time and her being married to Rob McElhenney, but was told not to "wimp out." Glenn Howerton wanted to go even further: "a really extended, 5 minute long, interminably long lovemaking scene between the two of them, that wouldn't be funny at all...until it just kept going and going and then it becomes funny again...hopefully." He was talked out of the idea. Day eventually came around: "we don't get to kiss other people very often, let's just enjoy it".
1st Jun 2023
The Shining (1980)
Trivia: At various points in the film, Jack Nicholson flicks his eyes to the camera, often only for a few frames, frequently hard to catch. It's deliberate - in one clip of behind the scenes footage Kubrick lies under him while setting up a scene, and specifically tells him to look down to the camera when filming. But there's no specific answer as to why - genre-defying, or to make the audience feel more threatened, or to make the viewers feel like the ghosts he sees. Hard to unsee though.
30th May 2023
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Trivia: More recent seasons have fewer scenes outside the front of the bar - the cast have said the area's been gentrified over the years, so it's now a bit too nice looking around there to match the low-rent feel of the setting.
16th May 2023
Deadpool (2016)
Trivia: Because Ryan Reynolds' face is covered for most of the film, it gave them the opportunity to change some of his dialogue after filming. Reynolds would often think of funny lines, record them on his iPhone, send them to the editors, and if the line worked he'd then record it properly. He's said that some of the iPhone recordings were used directly.
16th May 2023
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Trivia: As with the first film, Reynolds' face being covered meant if he thought of funnier lines after filming was wrapped it was comparatively easy to record new ones and replace the originals.
16th Mar 2023
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
Trivia: Puzzle master Melvin Stermley is played by Melissa Fumero's real-life husband, David Fumero.
25th Dec 2022
Knives Out (2019)
Trivia: At the end, Benoit Blanc says he noticed the blood on Marta's shoe the first time she stepped in front of him. Rewatching the sequence when they first meet, as he says "I've been doin' a little pokin'" he does indeed look down as he speaks and takes a fraction of a second pause, noticing the blood but continuing to talk as normal. (00:23:45)
25th Dec 2022
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Trivia: The hourly "dong" is voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rian Johnson's frequent collaborator.
27th Oct 2022
The Batman (2022)
Trivia: A point in the score from Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher, by Joe Kraemer, inspired The Batman's signature motif by Michael Giacchino. After the phone call between Jack and Helen when he warns her potentially not to trust her father, he's driving across a bridge and the music is almost identical to the "bom...bombom...bom" theme from this movie. (01:26:50)
14th Oct 2022
She-Hulk (2022)
Trivia: The intro for this episode closely mirrors that of The Incredible Hulk TV show which premiered in 1978, with many of the same shots and narration.
6th Oct 2022
Lucifer (2015)
29th Sep 2022
Lucifer (2015)
25th Aug 2022
She-Hulk (2022)
Trivia: When Jen gets the job offer in the bar, Ally McBeal is on the TV. That was added in post-production as a deliberate nod to one of the influences on this show.
7th Aug 2022
Boston Legal (2004)
Trivia: The footage of Denny Crane as a young man trying a case with his father comes from a TV play called "The Defender", broadcast live in 1957. The details of the case and trial are the same as referenced in this episode, and the title of this episode is a direct reference. One notable difference is that Joseph Gordon, here played by James Keane, was played by Steve McQueen in the original, who of course couldn't reprise his role.
30th Jul 2022
The Gray Man (2022)
Trivia: Chris Evans refers to Ryan Gosling as a "Ken Doll." Gosling is playing the role of Ken in an upcoming Barbie movie.