Factual error: When the captain sleeps in Darwin's house, first half 19th century, the bedroom appears to have electric light that uses a modern light switch. It's somewhat unlikely that this would be completely accidental, but since it serves no evident purpose for the story: mistake.
Spiny Norman
29th Sep 2025
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
29th Sep 2025
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
Continuity mistake: The sign at the start says 1837, but the Royal Society says "playing God since 1847." (Of course, a lot of time could have passed, or the sign could have been wrong, since it was handheld, not to mention the inscription; but there's no indication of, or reason for, either.)
17th May 2025
Casino Royale (2006)
Plot hole: Both Vesper and James are needed alive if Le Chiffre is to steal the money. But the trap on the road could have easily killed at least one of them (Bond isn't looking too good afterwards), or even both.
17th May 2025
Casino Royale (2006)
Plot hole: During the last half of the movie, it's a matter of discussion if it was Vesper or Mathis who informed on Le Chiffre about his "tell" (give-away when he was bluffing). But it could just as easily have been a trick that the latter had planned all along - it didn't have to be either of the other two. After all, we're talking world-class poker players; why would it ever have been that easy to see through Le Chiffre's game?
28th Jan 2025
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)
Factual error: When Holmes is on the mantelpiece to examine the cut bell rope, you can see a telephone line against the wall; it has been nailed to the top of the wainscoting with two standard white cable clips.
28th Jan 2025
Blackadder (1986)
Other mistake: In the barn, the unknown, wounded knight offers ten thousand sovereigns. At that moment, on the floor, he lifts his arms. A small sticker is visible on the inside of his left shoulder plate. (No doubt a label that wasn't expected to ever become visible.)
27th Nov 2024
Korgoth of Barbaria (2006)
Continuity mistake: During the tavern brawl, a group of three henchmen charges at Korgoth. During this parallel montage, the middle man changes from their first shot to their second (where he looks more like Hargon) and then back for the rest. (Also, the masked attacker on the right appears in two groups, but technically it could be twins or there could be more of them.)
26th Feb 2023
Plebs (2013)
The Banquet - S5-E3
Factual error: The library contains books as we know them, with a spine. But Roman libraries had scrolls.
17th Feb 2023
Plebs (2013)
The Banquet - S5-E3
Factual error: During The Banquet, everyone is seated at the dinner table. But Romans famously ate reclining. They should have lain down to eat.
17th Feb 2023
I, Claudius (1976)
Revealing mistake: The set where Augustus visits Agrippa on Lesbos for reconciliation is the same set where Augustus already was before - he was there earlier, reading the news of Marcellus' death while he was away from Rome to visit the Eastern provinces. But as stated, he had not visited Lesbos at all, because he and Agrippa had temporarily fallen out. (00:39:30 - 00:41:30)
14th Oct 2022
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Continuity mistake: During the final battle, the T800 at one point is trapped but manages to free himself (losing one arm in the process). He comes back to slice the T1000 in half with a metal bar. The T1000 kicks backwards at him (karate-style) - and the metal bar is flying away! Yet in the following shot, it is still there embedded in the T1000.
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Suggested correction: It doesn't fly away. It is wrestled out of the T-800's hands as the T-1000 turns around because it's stuck in the T-1000's body.
Like, to the top left of the frame? Possibly. Depends a bit on playback speed too.
29th Sep 2022
The Sandman (2022)
Plot hole: During Dream's imprisonment, Roderick Burgess eventually dies right in front of him. That means that at that moment, Death is there to take him away. Why doesn't Death - by far the most responsible and the most sympathetic of his family - see Dream, and let him out? It's completely against the order of all things that he is locked up there, so it's not as if Death can't interfere.
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Suggested correction: This is indeed a plot hole for the series. The only explanations are speculation. For instance, Neil Gaiman, talking about the comics, suggested that Death frequently visited the place as various people and animals died. According to him, she assumed that Dream would have asked for help if he wanted it. Another possibility is that the magic was designed to trap Death and somehow became effective in hiding Dream from her. But as you say, for the show, it is a plot hole.
Is this strictly speaking even a correction then? It depends, I suppose, if explanations are allowed for which no evidence is ever seen or heard. I myself don't hold with "what ifs," because they always feel extremely "made up afterwards" to me (although in this case, the post above is very straightforward about it); but it's not my website. Secondly, if Death wasn't able to see Dream (let alone free him), or he her, then wouldn't at least the viewers and the deceased still have seen her?
Not a correction; just an expansion of the idea and agreement that, for the series, this is a plot hole (and for the comic book too, without outside explanation).
As a side note, I think for the graphic novel it might have been just possible to pass it off as subjective camera if we insert the idea that the Endless can't see each other at all due to the incantations (or whatever). But the adaptation has different camera angles, contradicting any attempt to explain it retroactively that way. Of course, it's all "fridge logic" anyway.
29th Sep 2022
The Sandman (2022)
Plot hole: The powerful 'amulet of protection' makes the bullets strike the shooters instead of John. Clearly it works not just against magic and other ethereal threats, but also against physical attacks. So why does he almost get knocked over by a car? True, he isn't seriously injured, but he was thrown to the ground. The amulet should have pulverised that car or bounced it at least two blocks away.
28th Jul 2022
Persuasion (2022)
Factual error: Twice during the movie, streetlights are visible: once when lady Russell informs Anne of Wentworth's engagements, and once while Anne is running after Wentworth. (Streetlights, lit by gas, were indeed conceived during the regency period - but they were experimental curiosities, and certainly not yet installed nationwide).
26th Jul 2022
Neveneffecten (2005)
De landing - S2-E3
Visible crew/equipment: When the Belgians scan the deserted beach, someone walks into the frame from the left. He's there briefly, but visible at the end of the shot (editor should have cut a second earlier).
18th Jun 2022
Pat & Mat (1976)
Continuity mistake: In the close-up of putting the lids on the bottles, Mat's hands have 5 fingers (briefly done by a real person instead of the puppets). However, throughout the series, the duo is consistently 4-fingered - and that includes other close-ups that were also created with real hands briefly replacing the animation.
20th Apr 2022
Dr. No (1962)
Continuity mistake: The car chase that ends with the quip, "they were on their way to a funeral." During this car chase, you can see both cars coming round the same bend not just once, but several times. In between, there are close-up interior shots of Bond too. But three of the longshots are all from the same curve.
3rd Feb 2022
You Rang, M'Lord? (1988)
Factual error: Teddy says that he hates the stories by Wodehouse about the stuttering Bertie Wooster. However, Wooster only had a stutter in the 1965 TV series "World of Wooster", not in the original stories or in any other adaptations such as "Jeeves and Wooster." "You Rang" is set in the 1920s, and thus 40 years too early to have seen that program on television.
29th Nov 2021
The Mummy (1999)
Continuity mistake: During the foreign legion battle, the defensive line starts to retreat from the wall, falling under the force of the attack. Rick is at the centre of a group of five soldiers who are more or less in a V-pattern. When the camera changes position from front to back, there's just 3 of them.
16th Nov 2021
Korgoth of Barbaria (2006)
Continuity mistake: Hargon has a hook for a left hand. After the opening credits (during the dice roll scene) the hook is briefly on his right arm. Then it's left again during the rest of the episode.