Character mistake: Carl goes up the outside staircase before entering Frank's apartment while carrying his gun. When he encounters the frightened cleaning woman, he flashes his F.B.I. badge at her to identify himself. However, he only shows her the back of the black I.D. wallet, which has no markings on it.
raywest
18th Mar 2023
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
9th Mar 2023
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
9th Mar 2023
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Plot hole: All the teen girls are about the same age and always in the same grade-level during their three years at St. Francis. There are no younger new students arriving each fall, nor do older ones graduate. Every student graduates at the end of the three years. Schools do not accept a new crop of students every three years.
8th Mar 2023
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Plot hole: All the girls at St. Francis are in their mid-teens and have families who can afford to send them to private school, so these are not orphans. However, we are supposed to believe that none of the girls own or wear bras, shocking the Mother Superior when she sees them in their dance leotards. The nuns then take the girls shopping to buy each one a bra.
27th Feb 2023
Body Heat (1981)
Maddie [talking to Ned Racine]: You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.
31st Jan 2023
City Slickers (1991)
Plot hole: Norman, the orphaned new-born calf, could not have survived more than a few days after birth unless he was adopted by a foster-mother cow. The cattle were not dairy cows, and it's obvious the "cowboys" are not providing milk or other sustenance for Norman. Even if he had lived, he would be extremely weak and emaciated and physically unable to run with the herd.
20th Jan 2023
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
4th Jan 2023
His Dark Materials (2019)
Trivia: Will Keene, who plays Father McPhail, is the real-life father of Dafne Keene, who plays Lyra Belacqua, the main protagonist in the series.
30th Nov 2022
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Continuity mistake: From the time the army first attempts to destroy the Martians until the movie's end, Sylvia wears the same blue dress. Despite sheltering in an army bunker, being in a plane crash, jumping into ditches, running through woods, escaping a demolished house, and evading a frantic mob, her hair remains perfectly coiffed and her dress stays clean and undamaged.
9th Nov 2022
Downton Abbey (2010)
Episode #5.6 - S5-E6
Continuity mistake: When Lady Mary is competing in the Point-to-Point horse race, she is riding her mount sidesaddle style, wearing a long-skirted riding habit. When she (the stunt rider) jumps a hedge, she is now riding astride, with both legs over the horse and using a two-stirrup saddle. Also regular riding breeches (pants) are underneath the long skirt when it flies up a bit. These would never be worn with this type of lady's riding habit.
9th Nov 2022
Hatari! (1962)
Continuity mistake: When Dallas is giving the two baby elephants a bath with the hose, her lower pantlegs get drenched as she is kneeling on the wet ground. When she gets up to turn off the water, her pants are now mostly dry.
7th Nov 2022
House of Games (1987)
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Margaret shoots Mike, for the last three fatal shots, the gun is pointed in a direction that would not hit his body and would instead shoot the wall, slightly to his right. This can be seen in the from-behind, overhead camera shot as she fires at him.
4th Sep 2022
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Trivia: When Waldo and Loco (Betty Grable) are at the lodge, Loco says the music playing on the radio is Harry James. Waldo asks how she knows that, and she says she just knows that it's him. This is a movie in-joke because at that time, Grable was married to Harry James, the famous bandleader, in real life.
26th Aug 2022
Music Box (1989)
Plot hole: After Ann retrieves Tibor Zoldan's music box from the pawn shop, she finds the incriminating photos of her Nazi father, Michael Laszlo, hidden in it. Even though Zoldan could have redeemed the music box from the pawn shop within a certain time period, it makes no sense that he would have pawned it with the photos left inside. The photos were how Zoldan was able to blackmail Laszlo. It's unlikely he would have forgotten they were in there.
19th Jun 2022
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Continuity mistake: At Claire and Owen's mountain cabin, as they, and also Maisie, have been going up and down the snow-covered front stairs, there are no footprints left on the steps. It is only later that the snow looks somewhat disturbed.
31st May 2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
Trivia: In France, when Mr. Carson and Lady Maude are in the hat shop, the clerk mistakenly refers to them as being married, which surprises and embarrasses both. This is a movie in-joke regarding actors Jim Carter (Mr. Carson) and Imelda Staunton (Lady Maude), who are married in real-life.
18th May 2022
Doctor Strange (2016)
Question: When Strange is surgically removing the bullet from the patient's brain, why did he ask the one doctor to cover his wristwatch?
10th May 2022
Roseanne (1988)
6th May 2022
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
5th Mar 2022
High Society (1956)
Trivia: The large engagement ring that Grace Kelly wears in the movie is not a prop. It was a real 10-carat diamond engagement ring given to Kelly by her fiancé and later husband, Prince Rainier of Monaco.
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Answer: I took it to mean Dr. Strange could hear the watch ticking, and he wanted complete silence.
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