Jon Sandys

Tagumo Attacks!!! - S4-E5

Trivia: Nate's dad, played by Thomas F. Wilson, says "let's make like a tree and leave", to which Nate replies "I'm not sure that's how it goes." Thomas F. Wilson famously played Biff in the Back to the Future films, who frequently got that saying wrong.

Jon Sandys

4th Oct 2018

Lethal Weapon (2016)

Need to Know - S3-E2

Trivia: Cole fakes burning someone by pressing a popsicle to him after saying serious burns first feel cold. He says "it's all science stuff, I mostly read comics books during those classes." Faking a burn with ice is exactly what The Punisher does to someone in the 2004 movie, based on the comics.

Jon Sandys

21st Sep 2018

Trial & Error (2016)

6th Aug 2018

Supergirl (2015)

Worlds Finest - S1-E18

Trivia: Cat says "you look like the attractive yet non-threatening, racially diverse cast of a CW show." This episode crosses over with The Flash, from the CW (this show was broadcast on CBS). From season 2 onwards Supergirl moved to the CW, to join the other Arrowverse shows.

Jon Sandys

6th Aug 2018

Cloak & Dagger (2018)

17th May 2018

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Trivia: Spoilers! The end credits feature Deadpool using Cable's time travel device to "fix the timelines." He goes back and saves Vanessa, then travels to X-Men Origins: Wolverine and kills the awful version of Wade Wilson from that movie (also played by Ryan Reynolds). He finally goes and shoots Ryan Reynolds in the head before he appears in the Green Lantern movie. Also in the Blu ray version, he finds a newly born Adolf Hitler and after some working up, decides to kill him (offscreen).

Jon Sandys

19th Nov 2017

The Punisher (2017)

Trivia: The directors have previously worked on both Community and Arrested Development - both shows get nods in this movie. Jim Rash, the Dean from Community, plays an MIT faculty member at the start. More subtle is the Bluth family's stair-car from Arrested Development, seen briefly as Captain America walks onto the airport runway before the big battle with the other Avengers.

Jon Sandys

29th Apr 2016

Deadpool (2016)

30th Jan 2016

Creed (2015)

Trivia: Crowd scenes in Goodison Park for the final fight were filmed at half time during an Everton game, which explains why quite a few people in the crowd are waving blue Everton football scarves during a boxing match.

Jon Sandys

28th Oct 2014

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Trivia: Robert De Niro wanted a live cartridge to be in the gun when he plays Russian Roulette with John Cazale. Cazale agreed, but understandably checked the gun carefully before each take to ensure the live round wouldn't be fired when the trigger was pulled.

Jon Sandys

Trivia: The humming chant Matthew McConaughey does and Leonardo DiCaprio adopts is actually something McConaughey does before scenes to relax himself and clear his head. He did it before shooting the scene with DiCaprio in the restaurant, and after a few takes DiCaprio suggested that it was put in the scene, so it stayed.

Jon Sandys

1st Nov 2013

About Time (2013)

5th Apr 2013

The Avengers (2012)

Trivia: Paul Bettany, who voices Jarvis in this and the standalone Iron Man films, hasn't seen any of them. In an interview he said "This is robbery. I walk in, I say some lines on a piece of paper for two hours, and then they give me a bag of money and I leave and I go about my day...I've never seen one of them...It's not because of any snobbishness, it's just not my thing."

Jon Sandys

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