Question: Are this film's Zodiac killer and the Scorpio Killer in "Dirty Harry" based on the same person?
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7th Mar 2008
Zodiac (2007)
7th Mar 2008
Angel (1999)
Question: How is the vampire no-reflection effect achieved?
Chosen answer: There are severals ways to go about this. They could film the scene without the vampire in place so there's no reflection of him/her in the mirror, then film the scene with the vampire, and finally digitally splice the two together. Or, for quick passes, they could just digitally remove the reflection and replace it with the background. Camera tricks can also be used by putting the camera at a certain angle in relation to the mirror so it only looks like the person's reflection would be visible if they weren't a vampire. Depends on how much time and money they've got available.
6th Mar 2008
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Question: In terms of days, weeks, months, etc., how long were Lorelai and Christopher married in season seven?
Chosen answer: Lorelai and Christopher get married impulsively in Paris but they get divorced shortly after returning home. I don't know the exact number of days or weeks but they definitely weren't married for more than a couple of months.
Question: For his role as Maugrim, why was Michael Madsen uncredited?
Chosen answer: Actors sometimes choose not to be credited, particularly in cases where they're playing a role much smaller than one would normally expect them to be playing.
4th Mar 2008
The Dead Zone (2002)
Trivia: The season five episode "Independence Day" featured Chris Bruno's brother Dylan. The episode itself was Chris' first time as a director.
29th Feb 2008
Batman Begins (2005)
Trivia: According to an interview in "Starlog" magazine, Christopher Nolan based the film's visual style on Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
26th Feb 2008
Almost Famous (2000)
26th Feb 2008
Angel (1999)
Question: I'm about halfway through season 2 on DVD. Without spoiling anything for me, do the gypsies who ensouled Angel ever appear in the flashbacks, or are they only mentioned in passing?
25th Feb 2008
Almost Famous (2000)
22nd Feb 2008
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Audio problem: When Dakota and Jerrod start having sex, Aubrey's mother can hear Jerrod's moans through the ceiling. But up until they *really* start getting into the act, the moans that Susan is hearing don't match the shots in the bedroom.
21st Feb 2008
Patriot Games (1992)
Trivia: Richard Harris and James Fox are related by marriage: Harris' son Jared married Fox's niece, Emilia, in 2005.
21st Feb 2008
Patriot Games (1992)
21st Feb 2008
24 (2001)
Question: It is mentioned that 14 months prior to Day 6, Abu Fayed was detained by CTU Seattle, and his release was signed by Bill Buchanan. Considering the 20-month jump between seasons five and six and no mention of Buchanan ever being reassigned, the math doesn't add up; it seems to me that Buchanan would still have been at CTU Los Angeles. Can someone help me out?
Chosen answer: It is stated in season 4 somewhere around the 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm time frame that Buchanan worked at CTU Seattle before being transfered to Los Angeles. Michelle Dessler worked with him there while Tony was in prison between seasons 3 and 4.
18th Feb 2008
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Question: Why does it take the Federation two months to do anything about the explosion on Praxis?
Chosen answer: Because (as we see in the first ten minutes of the film) the prideful Klingons didn't want anyone entering their space.
16th Feb 2008
The French Connection (1971)
Trivia: The casting of Fernando Rey was an accident. William Friedkin had wanted to cast Francisco Rabal, whom he had seen in Belle de jour (1967), but at the time didn't know his name. Only after actor and director met did Friedkin realize Rey wasn't the actor he had wanted. Friedkin ended up keeping Rey after learning that Rabal spoke neither English nor French.
14th Feb 2008
Mean Girls (2004)
Trivia: Lindsay Lohan originally wanted to read for the role of Regina.
13th Feb 2008
Apollo 13 (1995)
Question: When Aquarius is descending during re-entry, why is the Navy preparing Search & Rescue instead of the Coast Guard?
Chosen answer: Aquarius was most likely going to splashdown in international waters; since the U.S. Coast Guard only has jurisdiction within American waters, the Navy would have to rescue them.
Answer: Because the Navy was assigned the Search, Rescue and Recovery task for all of NASA's space program. Imagine how long it would take the Coast Guard to get to the other side of the world.
12th Feb 2008
Batman Begins (2005)
Trivia: During principal photography, Christian Bale suffered from laryngitis three times.
12th Feb 2008
Batman (1966)
Trivia: In his appearances as The Joker, Cesar Romero's moustache is visible under his makeup. Romero refused to shave it off, so his makeup had to be applied over it.
11th Feb 2008
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Factual error: In Hogsmeade, Sirius implies that at a certain point, Snape's attendance at Hogwarts overlapped with Bellatrix Lestrange's. But given their dates of birth, Bellatrix would have left school two years before Snape started.
Chosen answer: Scorpio is loosely based on the Zodiac killer, yes. However, "Zodiac" is made to portray the hunt for the real-life Zodiac killer (as accurately as possible), with only a few ficticious elements thrown in for the sake of story-telling, while "Dirty Harry" is pure fiction.
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