Factual error: When Zach and his father give food to Raymond, a train passes in the background: this is the "Renaissance" car model, bought in the nineties by Via Rail, but the scene is set in the late seventies.
Dr Wilson
14th May 2006
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
21st Feb 2006
The Pink Panther (2006)
Factual error: The French national police are under the control of the ministry of interior, not the ministry of justice.
11th Feb 2006
Thunderbirds (1964)
Factual error: In the Tube, Virgin and Allan are seen going from Piccadilly Circus station to Bank station using the same tunnel. These two stations are not even on the same line.
21st Nov 2005
Citizen Kane (1941)
Factual error: When they are driving to the Everglades for a picnic, the sea is at their left. As Xanadu and the Everglades are on the Gulf coast, the sea should be at their right.
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Suggested correction: That depends on which direction are you filming, north-south or vice versa.
12th Feb 2005
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Factual error: When Eddie and Tommy are trying to enter in the security camera room at the beginning of the film, they use real tools but they couldn't unlock a door by using them this way.
30th Jan 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Factual error: When Dex first tests his ray gun, the reflection in his glasses goes in the wrong direction. (00:17:30)
24th Jan 2005
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Factual error: In the opening credits, it says that the Knights Templar of Malta paid tribute to the King of Spain with the Falcon in 1539. The Knights that were in Malta were the Knights Hospitallers of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. They mixed with the order of the Knights Templar, which went out of existence in 1314 and has also been founded in Jerusalem. They had nothing to do with Malta.
9th Jan 2005
Ma vie en cinémascope (2004)
Factual error: Before 1949, when the part of the film set in Hollywood takes place, the famous sign on the mountain read "Hollywoodland", not "Hollywood". The sign had been allowed to deteriorate and during that year, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce offered to remove the last four letters and repair the rest.
21st Dec 2004
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Factual error: The scene where Nightfox steals the Faberge Egg is all wrong. A laser security system must have a photoelectric receptor at the other side to detect if somebody pass between the two devices. As shown in the film, the laser beams points everywhere, so the system can't work and somebody could cross a beam without starting the alarm. Even if it was some weird system based on measuring distance it wouldn't work - if the laser hits the floor at an angle it won't bounce back to the source, it will reflect towards the ceiling.
10th Sep 2004
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Factual error: When the military are going to attack the flying saucers in Washington D.C., there's some shots where you can see trucks and airplanes in a deserted region. Washington is hundreds of kilometers away from the desert. (00:18:30 - 00:21:10)
15th May 2004
Moonraker (1979)
Factual error: When James Bond is in the control room of the secret base, I think it's when the second shuttle takes off, there's the time at the bottom of the TV screen moving forward, but it's written T- instead of T+.
14th Apr 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson - S9-E1
Factual error: The windows of the World Trade Center couldn't open and the Twin Towers weren't in front of each other as depicted in this episode. They were at an angle.
3rd Apr 2004
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Factual error: When they are eating, there's a box of chicken labelled PFK (Poulet Frit a la Kentucky), the French equivalent of KFC. This film takes place in the USA, but was filmed in Canada where most products are labelled in English and French.
9th Feb 2004
Three Musketeers (1993)
Factual error: Not long into the film, D'Artagnan jumps in some hay. There's a flag of the province of Québec (Canada) visible in the background. This film is set in France at a time this flag didn't even exist.
28th Jan 2004
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Factual error: When Carl explains the check system to the other police officers, they show a map of the USA with Kansas City in Nebraska instead of Kansas, and Boston in Maine instead of Massachusetts. The next time the map was shown, the cities are at the good place and the shades of gray are different. (00:43:20)
5th Dec 2003
Tomb Raider (2001)
Factual error: When Lara is on the back of the robot extracting wires, you can see her from it's eyes. That's impossible due to the shape of the head.
24th Oct 2003
Gale Force (2002)
Factual error: When the bomb explodes, the entire house is blown up and a police car near it flies into the air, but Sam, the mayor's daughter and the other policemen are not really affected by that. They are only at the other side of the street.
16th Oct 2003
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Factual error: During the travel to Nepal, "Thailand" is written on the map. The country has had this name only since 1939. This film takes place in 1936, when Thailand was called Siam. (00:23:20)
22nd Sep 2003
Amelie (2001)
Factual error: Princess Diana died on the morning of 31 August 1997, not 30 August. [Some subtitles say 30th August, some 31st. Can anyone translate the actual French?][The narrator says the 30th]
15th Sep 2003
The Avengers (1998)
Factual error: Each time somebody has snowflakes on them, they don't melt.
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