Trivia: To track The Turk, Cameron enrolls in a ballet class taught by the sister of a suspect. Summer Glau is actually a classically trained ballerina.
Cubs Fan
28th Aug 2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)
27th Aug 2008
Mansfield Park (1999)
24th Aug 2008
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
23rd Aug 2008
Angel (1999)
Trivia: Because they were both friends with Glenn Quinn, David Boreanaz and Christian Kane were uncomfortable filming the Lindsey-posing-as-Doyle arc.
23rd Aug 2008
Angel (1999)
Trivia: Joss Whedon wanted Sarah Michelle Gellar to guest star as Buffy in "You're Welcome" (the show's 100th episode) and "Power Play" (the penultimate episode), but she was unavailable. She later became available for the series finale, but Whedon declined, wanting the series to end focused on Angel. Conversely, David Boreanaz was available for the Buffy finale, but only for a limited amount of time.
20th Aug 2008
The Simpsons (1989)
Tree House of Horror IV: The Simpson's Halloween Special IV - S5-E5
Trivia: When Marge asks Bart to explain how scary the episode is, she mentions the "War of the Worlds" broadcast on NPR. Narrated by Orson Welles, that radio serial was so chilling, a number of listeners actually believed Earth was under attack.
18th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Trivia: This was the first film since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to remain #1 at the American box office for four consecutive weeks. It was finally knocked out of the top spot by Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder.
13th Aug 2008
Get Smart (2008)
13th Aug 2008
Angel (1999)
Trivia: During the season's Angelus arc, a lot of David Boreanaz's dialogue was improvised.
4th Aug 2008
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Trivia: Anthony Stewart Head (of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fame) makes a cameo as the man who congratulates Sweeney after his competition against Signor Pirelli. Head originally had a larger role, but his scenes were eventually cut out. (00:38:25)
2nd Aug 2008
Angel (1999)
2nd Aug 2008
Angel (1999)
2nd Aug 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
2nd Aug 2008
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Trivia: Christian Coulson, who played Tom Riddle in the second film, expressed interest in returning for this film, but David Yates felt Coulson was too old to convincingly play the role again. Ironically, Coulson was "too old" to begin with, being almost ten years older than the age group Chris Columbus had set for auditions.
1st Aug 2008
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Trivia: Because of changes to the script Joss Whedon was forced to make by the studio, he doesn't consider the film canon as established by the TV series. The studio made Whedon trim out many of the film's darker moments, in addition to a quite a few of the jokes he had written. And they also forced him to completely rewrite the climax, which originally ended with Buffy burning down the school's gym to kill the remaining vampires.
1st Aug 2008
The Lost Boys (1987)
Trivia: After twenty years of attempting to make a sequel, the direct-to-video film Lost Boys: The Tribe was released in 2008. Coincidentally, the film features Kiefer Sutherland's half-brother, Angus, as the head vampire.
1st Aug 2008
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
31st Jul 2008
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
30th Jul 2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
28th Jul 2008
Hellboy (2004)
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