Visible crew/equipment: When Drew Barrymore runs away after the killer just called her 'blondie', there's nobody behind her character, and yet a new shadow is cast on the wall to the left when the camera follows her around the corner to lock the front door. (00:03:50)
Sammo
19th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
16th Feb 2022
Scream 2 (1997)
Visible crew/equipment: Hearing about what happened at Omega Beta Zeta, Derek tells Sidney "let's get you home" and when she gets inside the camera comes closer to Jerry O'Connell for a dramatic shot...that catches in frame part of the stage light. Actually spotted by Wes Craven during the DVD commentary track. (00:38:35)
4th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Visible crew/equipment: When the officers take Billy away from Sidney's house, a set of lights is reflected in the back window of the car. (00:31:00)
3rd Feb 2022
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Visible crew/equipment: We get a good view of the Oscorp corridors, in particular the one outside the closet where Gwen and Peter hide. They kiss and there's a lovely light seeping through the door's window; when they start making out and also quickly when they open the door you can actually see the big spotlight that emits those warm rays. (01:10:49)
29th Jan 2022
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Visible crew/equipment: Vigo just knocked down the heroes who are looking at him powerless. Vigo then makes a gesture and parts the crates behind which Peter hid Oscar. As he does that gesture you can spot in the background on the left (mostly in the darkness) someone's arm doing the same (the movement is not exactly the same so it's not a mirror). (01:34:35)
4th Sep 2021
Mission of Justice (1992)
Visible crew/equipment: One of the punks wisely escapes the beating making a run for it with the paper bag containing the cash. The shopkeeper curses him ""He got away with all my money, the son of a..." As Kurt turns the corner and the camera follows him, the camera casts its shadow on the wall. (00:04:45)
2nd Sep 2021
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Visible crew/equipment: Waller is telling "Task Force X" about the additional mission they need to pursue, saving Rick Flag. Watch the shot when Bloodsport repeats "Rick Flag?" and Waller replies "I know." The team is going through dense, uninhabited tropical jungle, but in the trees there are people in T-shirts just standing around looking at them. (00:31:50)
19th Jan 2021
Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986)
Visible crew/equipment: As Abe Vigoda pronounces the last line of the movie ("Take care, my friend"), a boom mike pokes up in full view from the bottom right of the screen.
18th Jan 2021
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
13th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Visible crew/equipment: The kid actors in the school scene several times break fourth wall looking very distinctly at the camera. The kid directly behind the Child does it right away as Carl Weathers brings it there, and when Gina Carano is heading out there's a kid in the foreground who steals a worried peek at the camera, impossible not to notice. (00:09:05)
18th Sep 2020
Voodoo Passion (1977)
Visible crew/equipment: Throughout the whole intro, most bandmembers, in particular the second drummer from the left, are more focused on peeking at the camera than on anything else.
10th Sep 2020
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Visible crew/equipment: During Gibbons' funeral, when the camera pans up to eventually catch Vin Diesel sitting in the gallery, a few extras (such as the woman two rows behind the one with the flaming red hair) look up following the movement of the crane. (01:36:10)
31st May 2020
It May Be Love But It Doesn't Show (2011)
Visible crew/equipment: The two protagonists are on their tour bus, driving to the tourist pick-up spot. When they get there and get off the bus to greet the tourists, you can see in the shadows behind them the real driver shifting into neutral and trying to sneak out of the way. (00:05:35)
30th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: By the car exit of the Mokihana, both in coach Lum's car and in the Ferrari you can see the reflection of people standing by to film the scene. (00:44:10)
30th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: Inside Benny's glasses when he is taken back to the Estate is the reflection of the set light screen. (00:39:10)
29th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
27th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: One of the barrels involved in the stunt that flattens one of the bad guys rolls towards the camera and hits it rattling it. (00:40:55)
27th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: Magnum stops in front of the bar building on the beach of the King Kamehameha club asking his friends about his odds. They laugh him off, of course. In Tom Selleck's close-ups you can spot in the sunglasses TC's reflection far in distance with his yellow polo, but there's a man standing much closer that shouldn't be there. (00:04:10)
23rd May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Elmo Ziller Story - S2-E20
Visible crew/equipment: As the cab carrying Lexi Ziller drives off, set lights are reflected in the passenger window, and same for the boom mike in particular in the quarter glass. (00:47:40)
22nd May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: Higgins is walking the lads through the now oh so empty estate; when the camera pans all the way back, to the right of the frame you can see there is in fact someone else in there; it is the animal trainer who gives instructions to the dobermanns. (00:26:50)
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