Phaneron

1st Sep 2025

The Naked Gun (1988)

Continuity mistake: When Frank and the other umpire are throwing baseballs at each other during the pickle, Frank is standing almost halfway to second base. After Frank is hit in the face guard with the ball, the shot changes to the runner sliding into first base, and Frank is suddenly behind first base to call him safe.

Phaneron

21st Aug 2025

Weapons (2025)

Trivia: Some theatres held early screenings of this film at 2:17 PM as a nod to the time in the film (though it is 2:17 AM) that the 17 children go missing.

Phaneron

Trivia: This film marks the first time Spider-Man and the Punisher are featured together in live action. The Punisher originally debuted in the Spider-Man comics.

Phaneron

21st Aug 2025

The Odyssey (2026)

Trivia: Tickets for this film went on sale one year in advance of its release, with some theatres even selling out.

Phaneron

Trivia: Several weeks after this movie came out, in a case of life imitating art, a man in Westbury, New York was killed when a chain he was wearing caused him to get pulled into an MRI machine.

Phaneron

11th Aug 2025

The Naked Gun (2025)

Trivia: Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson started dating during the course of making this film.

Phaneron

Trivia: Early in the film, Polka Dot Man is mocked by Calendar Man. David Dastmalchian, who plays Polka Dot Man, also voiced Calendar Man in Batman: The Long Halloween, which was released the same year as this film.

Phaneron

6th Aug 2025

The Naked Gun (2025)

Trivia: Despite playing mother and son, Priscilla Presley is only 7 years older than Liam Neeson. Frank Drebin Jr. was also born at the end of The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, which was presumably in 1994, when the film was released. So unless the writers are completely disregarding the franchise timeline, that would mean 73-year-old Liam Neeson is playing a man in his early thirties.

Phaneron

6th Aug 2025

Batman Begins (2005)

6th Aug 2025

Taken (2008)

Trivia: Liam Neeson thought this movie was going to be a straight-to-video release, but was still eager to work in Paris for several weeks.

Phaneron

1st Aug 2025

Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)

Trivia: With 46.7 million views in its first three days, this became the biggest opening in the United States for a Netflix film.

Phaneron

1st Aug 2025

Happy Gilmore (1996)

Trivia: Christopher McDonald wanted to sink the long putt on the 18th green himself, as he didn't want them to just cut to a close-up shot of a ball going in the hole. He was told he would be given seven tries to make it, which he did on the fifth try.

Phaneron

1st Aug 2025

Happy Gilmore (1996)

Trivia: Christopher McDonald revealed on the Rich Eisen Show that he came up with the finger guns celebration himself, stating that he went into filming having no idea why the character was named Shooter because he was never told.

Phaneron

29th Jul 2025

Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)

Question: Happy goes broke after Virginia dies because she, unknown to him, handled all of the family's finances. Wouldn't they have had one or more attorneys who would be aware of this situation and would have then stepped in to address the void in their accounting responsibilities?

Phaneron

Answer: Absolutely nothing in the film indicates it was "unknown to him." The voiceover simply says she "handled the finances" and he wasn't good at it without her around. But to answer your question, yes, more than likely an attorney would help in real life. But you also have to account that this isn't a realistic movie. It's a cartoonish comedy. Plus, Happy is very impulsive in both films. So he ends up penniless after a series of bad financial decisions... plus getting sued. (Although to be fair, it's also not unheard of in real life. Plenty of people with tons of money end up poor after bad financial decisions.)

TedStixon

28th Jul 2025

Fantastic Four (2025)

Trivia: According to Box Office Mojo, this film made more money domestically on its opening day than the previous Fantastic Four film did in its entire theatrical run.

Phaneron

28th Jul 2025

Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)

Trivia: Professional golfer Will Zalatoris, who plays a recast version of Happy Gilmore's Waterbury Open caddy from the first film, was actually born six months after the first film was released.

Phaneron

28th Jul 2025

Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)

Revealing mistake: When Will Zalatoris is choking his caddy, you can tell from the blue lines around the motion blur for both actors that they are standing in front of a green screen. (00:47:15)

Phaneron

Stupidity: The safety and security measures for the high-tech facility at the beginning of the film are so ineptly designed that all it took to bring everything down was a Snickers wrapper getting sucked into an air intake vent.

Phaneron

24th Jul 2025

Ironheart (2025)

The Past Is the Past - S1-E6

Deliberate mistake: When Mephisto's true form is reflected in the concave side of the spoon, the reflection is right side up. However, reflections in the concave side of spoons appear upside down. This was likely done deliberately by the VFX artists to make this an easier Easter egg for fans to spot.

Phaneron

24th Jul 2025

Ironheart (2025)