Trivia: In the scene where the woman loses her brakes, Superman picks up her car and slowly puts it down. The stance he has was the same stance of Action Comics 1 with Superman on it.
Comedyfan74
29th Jun 2006
Superman Returns (2006)
8th May 2016
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Spidey takes Cap's shield he uses his web on it, but when he lands on the car the web on the shield is gone.
15th Oct 2004
The Goonies (1985)
Trivia: Richard Donner, the film's director, has an uncredited cameo appearance as a police officer, on the beach at the end.
8th Apr 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Trivia: Unkar Plutt, who Rey sells her haul to, is played by Simon Pegg.
8th Apr 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Trivia: In Rey's force vision, before she sees R2-D2 and Luke's robot hand, she runs down a hallway - the same one from The Empire Strikes Back during the final lightsaber duel between Luke and Darth Vader. This sequence was originally going to be longer, with her seeing the duel itself from a new perspective (one of the reasons Darth Vader is one of the Force Awakens toys).
11th Jan 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
1st Apr 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Trivia: A model of the tumbler from The Dark Knight trilogy is spray painted on the white hull of the Millennium Falcon, and mounted to its underside. This is because there was a friendly competition between JJ Abrams and Zack Snyder to see who could one-up the other by putting Batman/Superman references in Star Wars and vice versa.
12th Jan 2004
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Trivia: The Cook County collector is played by Steven Spielberg.
18th Feb 2008
Armageddon (1998)
Trivia: When the scientist says to the other man, "We're moving the Hubble," the long-haired man whom he is talking to is Michael Bay, the director of Armageddon.
12th Jan 2008
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Continuity mistake: When the truck crashes into the pillar that McClane and Matt are hiding behind in the tunnel, we see a large portion of the pillar fall off from the left side. However, when McClane gets up to drive the police car, the pillar is in perfect shape. (00:41:30)
10th Jul 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Revealing mistake: When McClane goes into the icy room in the power station, look at the pipe to the side of the acrobat: it's in shot a few seconds and you can see that the writing on the pipe is reversed, revealing that in the editing room, the shot was flipped.
30th Jun 2004
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Trivia: Spider-Man creator Stan Lee makes his standard cameo appearance for this film when Spider-Man and Doc Ock are fighting on the side of the building. The first shot of the street during the fight shows a woman being pushed out of the way as some debris falls; the man pushing her is Lee.
13th Jun 2003
Hulk (2003)
Trivia: Stan Lee, who co-created the Hulk, and Lou Ferrigno, who played him in the 70's TV show, have cameos as a pair of security guards in the beginning of the film. Ferrigno later made another cameo as a security guard in the 2008 reboot.
13th Jun 2008
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Trivia: Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber), the original creator of this comic book hero, has his usual cameo role in this movie. He's the guy who drinks the gamma contaminated soda from the fridge.
5th May 2002
Spider-Man (2002)
Trivia: At the festival when the Green Goblin throws his grenades, before the shot of Parker, you see Stan Lee (creator of Spider-Man). He was supposed to pick up the little girl that he pushes to safety, but due to his age, after several takes he said if they wanted him to pick her up, they were going to be there all day. (01:04:10)
22nd May 2003
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Trivia: Director Bryan Singer (X-Men among others) makes a cameo appearance on the bridge of the Enterprise. He's a non-speaking extra. When the Reman boarding party has beamed aboard and Riker and Worf leaves the Bridge to take care of the boarding party Singer is the officer who takes over Worf's tactical station. In the audio commentary on the DVD release Nemesis director Stuart Baird points out Bryan Singer's appearance and continues 'apparently he's a big fan of Star Trek'. (01:23:25)
17th Aug 2007
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Trivia: There are brief cameos at the start of the film by Peter Jackson as Bad Santa, who stabs Nicholas, and Garth Jennings as the Crackhead who holds hostages. Later, Cate Blanchett appears as Janine, who is hidden behind a surgical mask, and from whom Nicholas is estranged. And the film's director, Edgar Wright, is seen as the store employee pushing the cart when Nicholas walks towards the manager's office.
11th Dec 2005
Hard Day's Night (1964)
Other mistake: An old woman in a dress shop peeps out to see all the cameras in front of her store before the Beatles run by on their way back to the studio. (01:13:40)
7th Oct 2014
X-Men (1992)
Trivia: One of the images in Gambit's mind-scan is of fellow Marvel Comics superhero Ghost Rider. (00:07:45)
26th Oct 2005
Home Improvement (1991)
Visible crew/equipment: At the very end of the episode, the top of the set and crew lights are visible on the top on the screen.
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