Movies #3
The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point
8 1/2 (by fellini who was scared of clowns)
Before 1997's "Titanic", there was this 1958 film about the ship, based on a Walter Lord book
A night to remember
Lawyers Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn are on opposite sides of a divorce case in this classic comedy
Adam's Rib (1949)
"Sleep" is the title of a 1964 documentary showing nothing but a man sleeping for five and a half hours. What artist directed this movie?
Andy Warhol
What movie had the quote: 1930: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know"
Animal Crackers
In "The Princess Bride", Westley says this phrase to Buttercup over & over, which she finally realizes means "I love you"
As you wish
What Disney film, released in 1942, had to wait 64 years until its sequel was released in 2006? The 64-year gap between original and sequel, which follows the title character's time with his father after his mother's death, IS the longest in history.
Bambi
This word precedes "Sunrise", "Sunset" & "Midnight" in the names of a romantic trio of films from Richard Linklater
Before (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy)
"My people are praying for a man who can drive their team to victory over Messala"
Ben-hur
The first comedy to be the highest-grossing U.S. movie for a given year earned the distinction in 1984. It featured characters such as Victor Maitland and John Taggart and its soundtrack won the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album. In addition, it spawned two sequels and a third was in production (for Netflix) as of September 2022. What is the movie?
Beverly Hills Cop
"B MOVIES": It was subtitled "The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance"
Birdman
Before Marvel really started trilogizing, this hero of theirs sunk his teeth into 3 films, the last being 2004's "Trinity"
Blade
What movie starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri is a teen sex comedy about two high school seniors who set out to hook up with cheerleaders?
Bottoms
"COUNTIES" 1978: "The Boys from ____"
Brazil
1996: Christian & Samantha Mathis try to prevent John Travolta from stealing nuclear missiles
Broken Arrow
"Just what are you getting at, Elvis?"; "I think you know what I'm gettin' at, Mr. President. We're gonna kill us a mummy"
Bubba Ho-tep
What 2000 LeAnn Rimes song is the theme song of the movie Coyote Ugly?
Can't fight the moonlight
Disney's "Mary Poppins" has a spoon full of classic songs, but it was this Sherman Bothers song that took home the Oscar. In the movie the song is song by Bert (Dick Van Dyke) and others of the same profession.
Chim Chim cherie
Paul Rudd played Alicia Silverstone's stepbrother in this 1995 comedy
Clueless
"MOVIE TAGLINES": 2021: "Every family has its own language"
Coda (Child of deaf adults)
Matt Dillon + Thandiwe Newton + Los Angeles÷ bigotry
Crash
As a high school football star in a Pennsylvania steel town, this actor had "All the Right Moves"
Cruise
Her scary story "The Birds" became a scary big-screen thriller
Daphne Dumaurier
What Emmy- and Oscar-nominated director sold his own branded line of coffee starting in 2006 at Whole Foods, only to be discontinued recently? In a surreal twist, the coffee had relatively normcore taglines of "I'm full of beans" and "It's for people."
David Lynch
The middle film of Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi trilogy, it's also the title of an Eagles hit song
Deperado (Once upon a time in Mexico)
Tin Men, Avalon, and Liberty Heights are the final three movies in a tetralogy of films by the same director, set in his hometown of Baltimore in the 1940s-60s. What 1982 film is the first and most famous in this series?
Diner
"Happily never after" is a tagline for this 2022 Disney musical sequel with Amy Adams as Giselle
Disenchanted
Who voices Mr and Mrs Potato Head in Toy Story?
Don Rickles and Estelle Harris
What 2020 movie stars Will Farrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as a married couple hitting a rough patch after almost dying in an avalanche while skiing in Austria?
Downhill
She made her feature film directorial debut with the roller derby film "Whip It" & co-starred as Smashley Simpson
Drew Barrymore
What is the 2021 Disney movie about a Columbian family who all have superpowers except one little girl?
Encanto
What 2021 MCU Superhero film stars Angelina Jolie and Kumail Nanjiani and directed by Chloe Zhao?
Eternals
What group of superheroes are the primary adversary of the supervillain Dr. Victor von Doom?
Fantastic four
We saw this actress have the guns of Bonnie Parker & in a 1978 thriller, the "Eyes of Laura Mars"
Faye Dunaway
Though nominated four times for Best Director, which well-known director never won an Oscar in that category? One of the films he was nominated for was Amarcord.
Fellini
What post-apocolyptic 2021 film stars Tom Hanks as a inventor who builds a robot to keep him company?
Finch
"EYES": Later a movie title, this collection of short stories was subtitled "Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond"
For your eyes only
Known for upbeat films, this director said "It's a wonderful Life" was "the greatest film I had ever made", but it didn't do well at the box office
Frank Capra
Who directed 1994: "The Shawshank Redemption " and 1999 "The Green Mile"
Frank Darabont
6'5" ex-bodyguard Michael Clarke Duncan received an Oscar nomination for his role in this 1999 film
Green Mile
Wrestler Dave Bautista went 282 days to destroy the record for the longest single reign as world heavyweight champ before suiting up, or really stripping down, to play Drax the Destroyer in this 2014 Marvel film
Guardians of the Galaxy
Andrew Garfield played pacifist & Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in this movie set in part at the Battle of Okinawa
Hacksaw Ridge (2016 directed by Mel Gibson)
"MOVIES BY SEQUEL": "The Golden Army"
Hellboy
Europe: 2005 horror film named for cheap lodgings
Hostel
In this Coen Brothers movie, Charles Durning jumps out a window during a board meeting
Hudsucker Proxy (50s fantasy from 1994)
George Lucas created which special effects house in the course of making Star Wars? It has gone on to become arguably the preeminent special effects company in the film industry.
Industrial Light & Magic
Keaton's 1923 feature film Three Ages intercuts similar love stories across three time periods: the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern Age. This narrative structure parodies what 1916 film by director D. W. Griffith, which also takes place in multiple time periods, although at far greater length and to far less comedic effect?
Intolerance
This remake about a pod people takeover moved the action from a small town to San Francisco, with Leonard as a famous psychologist
Invasion of the body snatchers
The 2006 Queen Latifah comedy vehicle Last Holiday is a remake of a 1950 British film scripted by what playwright of An Inspector Calls?
JB Priestley
What is the name of the protagonist in the movie that the 2022 Sight and Sound critics poll rated as the best film of all time?
Jeannie Dielman
Who played Aretha Franklin in the 2021 film RESPECT?
Jennifer Hudson
In 2018, Ike Barinholtz joined Leslie Mann & this muy macho pro wrestler as parents who don't want their daughters going too far on prom night in the comedy film "Blockers"
John Cena
In a 1999 Spike Jonze film, a portal into which actor's head is discovered on the seventh-and-a-half floor of the Mertin-Flemmer Building?
John Malkovich
Amy Adams scored her first Oscar nomination as a very chatty and very pregnant woman meeting her sister-in-law for the first time in what 2005 film directed by Phil Morrison?
Junebug
Who is the new 007 in No Time to die, taking over from Daniel Craig?
LASHANA LYNCH plays Nomi
Subtitled "A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France," what 2004 nonfiction book by Eric Jager was adapted into a 2021 Ridley Scott-helmed period piece?
Last Duel
In an intermission in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Matt Damon appears as what character explaining what happened to him at the end of Dogma? Damon has also cameoed in the MCU as an in-universe actor who plays a character with that same name. It's all exhaustingly meta
Loki
In a lousy future, this title hard-driving drifter's only friend is an Australian cattle dog
Mad max (Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy)
Tyler Perry said this woman's "Family Funeral" would be the last time he plays the iconic character
Madea
The songs of Aimee Mann inspired this 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson film, & Aimee's "Save Me" was heard in it
Magnolia
Noah Baumbach wrote this Oscar-nominated 2019 film about the breakup of the union between Charlie & Nicole Barber
Marriage story (Adam Driver/Scarlett Johansen)
"Feed The Birds" from this film was said to be one of Walt Disney's personal favorites
Mary Poppins (Tuppence a bag)
What Oscar-winner steals the show early in the movie Eurotrip in a cameo as Donny who very publicly admits to sleeping with the main character's girlfriend in the song "Scotty Doesn't Know"?
Matt Damon
What French composer is noted for his collaborations with director David Lean? The collaborations resulted in Academy award winning scores for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India
Maurice Jarre
What character says: "Servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius... husband to a murdered wife, & I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next"
Maximus (Russell Crowe in Gladiator)
In "Gone with the Wind", Scarlett O'Hara marries Charles Hamilton & Ashley Wilkes marries her, Charles' sister
Melanie
Sir Alexander Korda married this protegee in 1939, the same year she starred in "Wuthering Heights"
Merle Oberon
Maya Deren is best known for what 1943 experimental film that influenced many surrealist artists of the time including Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, and Luis Buñuel?
Meshes of the afternoon
Who is the acclaimed Italian director of L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, and Blow-up?
Michelangelo Antonioni
"Yes, Madam" is what we might say to this actress & is one of her Hong Kong action films
Michelle Yeoh (malaysian actress in Crouching Tiger and Tomorrow never dies)
Adrien Brody plays Dalí during one of Owen Wilson's magical French walks in this Woody Allen movie
Midnight in Paris
Winning Mira Sorvino an Oscar as an elusive muse and featuring a literal Greek chorus (because, subtle), what 1995 film is loosely based on the tale of Pygmalion? Unlike Oldboy, in this case, all sketchy intrafamily sexual relationships occurred outside the film.
Mighty Aphrodite
Who directed, among many others, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus?
Milos Forman
John Ratzenberger asks Billy Crystal, "Why can't they call me the Adorable Snowman... or the Agreeable Snowman?" in this Pixar film
Monsters Inc
As of April 2023, Pixar Animation Studios has produced 26 feature films, nine of which were sequels or spin-offs. Of those, three movies do NOT have a number in their titles. Name all three.
Monsters University, Lightyear, Finding Dory
Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" is one of hundreds of films with scores by this composer
Morricone
This photographer & advocate for marginalized folks & against opioid companies goes in front of the camera in a 2022 doc
Nan Goldin
What 2021 Guillermo del toro movie features Bradley Cooper as a con man working the carnival circuit
Nightmare Alley (Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett)
2021 James Bond movie, Daniel Craig's last one
No time to die
Ebert writes of this terrible Rob Reiner movie: "What is the point of the scenes with the auditioning parents? (The victimized actors range from Dan Aykroyd as a Texan to Kathy Bates as an Eskimo)...They are not funny. They are not touching. There is no truth in them. They don't even work as parodies. There is an idiocy here that seems almost intentional, as if the filmmakers plotted to leave anything of interest or entertainment value out of these episodes."
North (Rob Reiner, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Dan Aykroyd, Alan Arkin, Bruce Willis)
In what 1946 suspense film does Claude Rains go down to the wine cellar to retrieve more champagne, where Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman have just discovered uranium ore in one of the wine bottles?
Notorious
"MOVIE SONGS": "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" (2000)
O brother, where art thou?
What 1976 movies starring Robby Benson was based on a 1967 Song by Bobbie Gentry?
Ode to Billie Joe
Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin is perhaps most famous for its scene depicting a massacre of civilians on the (since renamed) Richelieu steps of what city?
Odessa
Set in Australia, this end-of-the-world film was based on a book by Aussie Nevil Shute
On the beach
What painter was married to Olga Khokhlova until her death in 1955 and to Jacqueline Roque in 1961 until his death in 1973? Antonio Banderas earned a 2018 Emmy nomination for his portrayal of this painter in National Geographic's Genius anthology series.
Pablo Picasso
Saturn has a moon named this, also the name of a moon in "Avatar"
Pandora
What 2000 sports movie is based on the true story of coach Herman Boone and his attempt to integrate the TC Williams High School football team? The movie featured Ryan Gosling in his first major film role.
Remember the Titans
What is the name of Count Dracula's servant and familiar in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel 'Dracula'?
Renfield
Seen here, this record producer interviewed Paul for the series "McCartney 3, 2, 1"
Rick Rubin (Def jam)
"1ST FEATURE THEY DIRECTED": 1984: "This Is Spinal Tap"
Rob Reiner
The 1959 romantic comedy "Pillow Talk" was the first on-screen pairing of these two actors
Rock Hudson(1st celeb to die from AIDS) & Doris Day
A treasure map takes Kathleen Turner to Colombia & into the arms of Michael Douglas in this 1984 adventure
Romancing the stone
Who was nominated for a 2023 Oscar for directing Triangle of Sadness? He also did force Majeure and Square (2020).
Ruben Ostlund (Charlbi Dean and Woody Harrelson starred)
What 1995 Jackie Chan movie was filmed in Vancouver?
Rumble in the Bronx
In what Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker-led comedy do Detectives Lee and Carter have to save the Hong Kong ambassador's daughter from kidnappers?
Rush Hour
What 1955 movie starring Hepburn and Bogart was remade in 1995 starring Harrison Ford
Sabrina
Brigitte Bardot & the filming of "And God Created Woman" made this "saint"ly French Riviera town an international destination
Saint Tropez
1977's Cross of Iron was - perhaps surprisingly - the only war movie made by which director, who had a career-long affinity for violence and action scenes, especially in Westerns.
Sam Peckinpah
This director of sometimes violent Westerns made "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia", in which Warren Oates gets a head
Sam Peckinpah
Give us your best Billy Batson impression as you say the title of this 2019 DC film
Shazaam
What was the last name of the brothers who wrote the music for the Disney movies "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book", and others, and the theme park song "It's a Small World (After All)", the most-performed song of all time?
Sherman (Richard & Robert)
The Third Servile War, which took place in the Roman Republic and was later declared by Voltaire as "the only just war in history", is best-known for the revolt by **which historical figure**, who has inspired countless television shows and movies?
Spartacus (I am spartacus)
In a 2006 film title youngster Akeelah competes in one of these
Spelling bee (Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett)
In this 1941 Preston Sturges film, a director sets out to research poverty with only a dime in his pocket
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges movie)
In this classic film Joel McCrea is on the move as a director tired of making comedies like "Hey, Hey in the Hayloft"
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges movie)
This producer of "The Crazy Heart" & "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtracks has a steak, or star, on the St. Louis Walk of Fame
T-Bone Burnett
What popular movie character shares his name with the imaginary line that "divides" the dark and lit side of the moon?
Terminator
Written and directed by Jason Reitman, what 2005 satire film starred Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor, the chief spokesman for Big Tobacco cigarettes?
Thank you for smoking (Katie holmes, Rob Lowe William H Macy)
which 1980 war film starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, and Robert Carradine was directed by Samuel Fuller?
The big red one
Francis Ford Coppola released a recut version of Godfather 3 in December 2020, minus the words Part III. Instead, Coppola called it The Godfather Coda, with what fatal subtitle?
The death of Michael Corleone
Timothy Hutton & Sean Penn took on the CIA--& lost, big time--as the nicknamed title characters in this 1985 movie
The falcon & the snowman
Guess the animated Disney or Pixar movie from the dark summary. In this 1981 film, two childhood best friends briefly lose touch, until one gets a job that involves murdering the other.
The fox and the hound
What 2005 sports movie starring Shia Labeouf is based on the early life of amateur golf champion Francis Ouimet and his surprise winning of the 1913 US Open?
The greatest game ever played
What 2021 Western film features mostly african-american cast Regina King, Delroy Lindo & Idris Elba?
The harder they fall
What 2022 film stars Pierce brosnan as LouisXIV and William Hurt as pere lachaise searching for immortality?
The king's daughter
"What is essential is invisible to the eye" is the secret the fox shares with this title character
The little prince
What 2023 film stars Russell Crowe as a priest removing demons from people?
The pope's exorcist
That wasn't all of Damon's Marvel cameos! He briefly appears in Deadpool 2 with Alan Tudyk. Damon's character is credited as Dickie Greenleaf referencing what earlier movie he starred in with Jude Law?
The talented Mr Rippley
What 2021 movie musical biopic features Andrew Garfield playing Jonathan Larson
Tick Tick Boom (Creator of Rent)
What 2013 film has Scarlett Johannsen as an alien trying to abduct men from earth?
Under the skin (With Adam Pearson)
GWTW: He was working on another 1939 blockbuster when he was brought in to replace George Cukor as the film's director
Victor Fleming
With Ariana DeBose's Best Supporting Actress Oscar win for portraying Anita in 'West Side Story', there are now three characters in film history to garner Oscar wins for two different performers. What are the other two characters?
Vito Corleone (Brando, Deniro) and the Joker (Ledger, Phoenix)
"COUNTIES" "The Outlaw Josey ____"
Wales (1976 Clint Eastwood movie)
(I'm Reggis Watts.) In addition to music, I had done some stand-up & sketch work but found the type of comedy I wanted to perform in this 2001 wet hot movie starring Paul Rudd & Elizabeth Banks
Wet hot American Summer
Taking place over 20 minutes entirely in one location and featuring mostly conversation, the tense memorable opener of what lackluster 1979 horror film would later be paid homage to by Wes Craven in "Scream"?
When a stranger calls
This seamy side of Chicago local politics is central to what 2018 thriller, starring Viola Davis as head of the titular crew which attempts to steal $5M from the head of an aldermanic dynasty?
Widows
"COUNTIES" "Salmon Fishing in the ____"
Yemen (2011 with Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt)
In the 1988 film "Coming to America", James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair played the King and Queen of what fictional African country?
Zamunda
Ads for "Viva Las Vegas" called her "That 'bye-bye' gal", a reference to "Bye Bye Birdie"
ann margret
Paul Rudd was "Our Idiot ____"
brother
In this '63 film, Jesse Pearson played rock star Conrad while rocker Bobby Rydell was Hugo Peabody
bye bye birdie
What Batman villain is a lethal assassin, anti-hero and played by Will Smith?
deadshot
This actress came by her all-American image honestly; her hometown of Denison, Iowa has been compared to Bedford Falls
donna Reed
Lindsay Lohan moves from the city to the suburbs in "Confessions of a Teenage" this
drama queen (2004 with Megan Fox)
MOVIE CAST: 2021: Gemma Chan & Salma Hayek deal with a pressing planetary issue
eternals
Claudette Colbert + Clark Gable - an undershirt
it happened one night
MOVIE CAST: 2019: Chris Evans & Ana de Armas have murder on their minds
knives out
Though nominated four times for Best Director, which well-known director never won an Oscar in that category? One of the films he was nominated for was Barry Lyndon.
kubrick
In 1964, Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Homer Smith in what film?
lillies of the field
"OUT OF": This 1998 film starred George Clooney & Jennifer Lopez
out of sight
The original logo of this movie studio was likely inspired by scenic Ben Lomond in Utah, home state of W.W. Hodkinson, a studio founder
paramount
One of Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 action & adventure movies is 1976's "Assault on" this unlucky police station
precinct 13 (2005 remake had Laurence Fishburne/Ethan Hawke)
Petronius' vulgar 1st century A.D. satire made into a film by Fellini
satyricon
What famous six-word directive does Tony Montana shout before he trains his M16A1 on Alejandro Sosa's men?
say hello to my little friend
Ebert can provide all the clues for this one: "Because many adults have an irrational reluctance to see an animated film from Japan (or anywhere else), I begin with reassurances: It has been flawlessly dubbed into English by John Lasseter (Toy Story), it was co-winner of this year's Berlin Film Festival against 'regular' movies, it passed Titanic to become the top-grossing film in Japanese history, and it is the first film ever to make more than $200 million before opening in America."
spirited away (Ghibli Anime)
Dennis Quaid played Smooth-talking New Orleans police detective Remy McSwain in this movie
the big easy (1986 with Ellen Barkin)
Being the Ricardos, starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, is the latest effort from what writer-director?
Aaron Sorkin
Sergei Prokofiev scored this Eisenstein film about a historic hero on the Neva river
Aleksandr Nevsky
What movies had this song: "Thanks For The Memory", from "The Big" this "of 1938"
Broadcast (WC Fields and bob hope)
"MOVIE STARS": 1988: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon & Robert Wuhl, who makes a memorable visit to the mound
Bull Durham
In this Coen Brothers comedy, 2 gym employees find a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent
Burn after reading
Andie McDowell played Vi Moore, wife of Reverend Shaw Moore in the 2011 remake of the movie "Footloose." Who played Vi Moore in the 1984 original?
Dianne Wiest
Tin Men, Avalon, and Liberty Heights are the final three movies in a tetralogy of films by the same director, set in his hometown of Baltimore in the 1940s-60s. What 1982 film is the first and most famous in this series?
Diner (Directed by Barry Levinson and starring Kevin Bacon and Daniel Stern)
Which chef, a noted film buff, named her restaurant Chez Panisse after a sailmaker in Marcel Pagnol's "Marseille Trilogy" of 1930s films? This chef is arguably the founder of modern California cuisine, and has advocated for "Edible Schoolyard" programs across the United States.
Alice Waters
What songwriter, primarily known for his work with the Walt Disney Company, has won the second-most Oscars (with eight) of any person, after only Walt himself?
Allen Menkin
You can see the broken vase Scarlett threw when this character she loved spurned her at Twelve Oaks
Ashley Wilkes
Raised in a prison & frequently hopped up on venom, this masked enemy broke Batman's back in a 1990s story arc
Bane (Played by Tom Hardy in THe Dark Knight Rises)
The title character of this 1991 Coen Brothers film is a caricature of writer Clifford Odets
Barton Fink
What 2002 film by Justin Lin was likely his bridge to the Fast and Furious franchise? This crime drama featuring young Asian-American actors including John Cho had an angel investor in the form of MC Hammer.
Better luck tomorrow
In "Endgame" this Avenger makes a heroic sacrifice & takes a terrible fall in order to obtain the Soul Stone
Black Widow
This 1984 homage to film noir was the Coen Brothers' first film
Blood Simple
In "Animal House" this college official has unfortunate midterm grade news: "Mr. Blutarsky... zero point zero"
Dean Wormer
Spencer Tracy adjusts to life as a grandfather in the 1951 sequel "Father's Little" this math term
Dividend
A main character in two recent films, what Sorcerer Supreme uses his Sling Ring to move other cards to his location in Marvel SNAP!?
Doctor Strange
3 villains mentioned by name in the title of a James Bond film
Dr. No, Octopussy and Goldfinger
In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law turns up as a younger version of this wizard
Dumbledore
The title characters of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" were played by Paul Rudd & her
Evangeline Lilly
Known for upbeat films, this director said "It's a wonderful Life" was "the greatest film I had ever made", but it didn't do well at the box office
Frank Capra (Donna Reed was the actress)
Some theaters showed this 2019 Will Smith clone movie in 60 frames per second, which made the action look smoother
Gemini man (Clive Owen, ME Winstead)
2021's Encanto featured chart-busting songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, but we should also talk about the film's score, which earned its composer the first best-score Oscar nomination for a Latina. What is her name?
Germaine Franco
What infamous 1980 box-office bomb ruined the career of The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino? Starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken and John Hurt the production was besieged by significant retakes, animal abuse allegations and ended United Artists existence as an independent studio
Heaven's gate (western movie)
2008: Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson visit Belgium, & reunite in 2022 for "The Banshees of Inisherin"
In Bruges
Ryan Reynolds played husband and stepfather George Lutz in the 2005 remake of "The Amityville Horror." Who played George Lutz in the 1979 original? First and last name required.
James Brolin
The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton
Judas & the black messiah (Daniel Kaluuya)
it's the real first name of legendary comedian Groucho Marx
Julius
A Disneyland ride was the basis for this adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt
Jungle Cruise
Stevie Wonder wrote the soundtrack & title song to this 1991 Spike Lee movie
Jungle Fever
Long before he took us to "Manchester by the Sea", he made his feature directing debut with "You Can Count on Me"
Kenneth Lonergan
The 2021 biopic of Lady Diana called "Spencer" stars which actress in the leading role?
Kirsten Stewart
Swedish actress Anita Ekberg made quite a splash here in the Trevi Fountain in this classic Fellini film
La dolce vita
What character says: "No retreat. no surrender. That is Spartan law & by Spartan law we will stand & fight & die"
Leonidas in 300
This British actor who played Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With The Wind" was the son of Hungarian immigrants
Leslie Howard
The Coen brothers took us "Inside" this uncompromising early 1960s folk singer
Llewyn Davis
Rockatansky is the last name of what enduring film character, first portrayed onscreen in 1979?
Mad Max
Who directed "Wonder Woman", episodes of "Entourage" & "Arrested Development"
Patti Jenkins
The 1972 disaster movie 'The Poseidon Adventure' is based on whose 1969 novel of the same name?
Paul Gallico
Who directed "There Will Be Blood"
Paul Thomas Anderson
"All About My Mother" & "Parallel Mothers" were directed by this Spaniard seen here
Pedro Almodovar
This 2007 Jury Prize winner was an animated feature based on Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about an Iranian girl
Persepolis
what movie from 1972 had: "The Morning After", from this disaster film
Poseidon Adventure
The schemes of this wealthy, cackling character of "It's a wonderful life" include offering George a job
Potter
Aaliyah's last film was what loose adaptation of an Anne Rice novel?
Queen of the damned
Steven Spielberg's take on West Side Story has Ansel Elgort playing Tony; what actress made her feature film debut as Maria?
Rachel Zegler
Rick Garcia sang "Welcome Amigo" & Los Lobos the theme song for this 2011 animated film
Rango
What animated film set in the western town of Dirt won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature? Directed by Gore Verbinski, it is the only film by Nickolodeon Animation to win the award.
Rango
"1ST FEATURE THEY DIRECTED": 2020: "One Night in Miami..."
Regina King (Cooke, Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown in a hotel room)
The film debut of Aaliyah was what very loose adaptation featuring herself and Jet Li in a mob story?
Romeo must die
The largest explosion in movie history, according to Guinness, destroyed a Moroccan communications center owned by the character Ernst Stavro Blofeld in what 2015 franchise movie?
SPECTRE
2021 Superhero Movie Starring Canadian Simu Liu and Awkwafina
Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings
Who was the director of CODA?
Sian Heder
In this film Gary Oldman played the punk rock bassist for the Sex Pistols, who lived fast & died young
Sid & Nancy
In "Moonstruck", after Nicolas Cage says, "I'm in love with you", Cher slaps him twice & says these 4 words
Snap out of it
Who directed "Kafka", "Full Frontal", "Ocean's Eleven"
Soderbergh (ALso did traffic and Erin Brokovitch)
In 2021 Jon Batiste recalled his own piano teacher in accepting the Best Score Oscar for this animated film about a music educator
Soul
What 2021 MCU movie features Tom holland in the title role?
Spiderman no way home (Zendaya, Cumberbatch, Favreau, Tomei, Jamie Foxx)
"1ST FEATURE THEY DIRECTED": 1986: "She's Gotta Have It"
Spike Lee
1999's "Eyes Wide Shut" was this director's last effort; sadly, he did not make it to 2001
Stanley Kubrick
Which film by Sidney Poiter was the first film directed by an African-American to earn more than $100 million at the box office? It starred Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in their second movie collaboration.
Stir Crazy (1980)
This film about 2 escaped convicts, one black & one white, won an Oscar for best black & white cinematography
The defiant ones
George Langelaan wrote the Playboy magazine short story that inspired this film in which Seth Brundle transforms
The fly
2021 Movie that is a prequel to the Sopranos
The many saints of Newark
"Scary movie taglines": 2013: "One night a year, all crime is legal"
The purge
KEVIN HART READS THE CLUE: There's desert & snow & now, it's Danny Glover taking over my avatar in "Jumanji: The Next Level", the most recent film inspired by a book written & illustrated by this man
Van Allsburg
What 2022 action-comedy movie stars Nicolas Cage as himself, as he goes on a mission to save him and his family from financial ruin?
The unbearable weight of massive talent (Neil Patrick Harris)
Last names Heidecker & Wareheim, these 2 title funny guys got a "Billion Dollar Movie" in 2012
Tim & Eric
MOVIE QUOTES: 2008: "I know who I am! I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!"
Tropic Thunder
"STAR TREK": A decades-old mystery was solved in the 2009 movie when her first name was found to be Nyota, Swahili for "Star"
Uhura
"The Midwich Cuckoos" inspired this "Damned" 1960 film about children with frightening powers in a small town
Village of the Damned
What animated film won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature? Produced by Aardman studios, it is the only stop-motion film to win the award, and has a required subtitle.
Wallace & Gromit: The curse of the were-rabbit
This 2019 film has Himesh Patel waking up in an alternate universe where he is one of the few who remembers The Fab 4
Yesterday
The success of what Akira Kurosawa film caused him to rewrite his next film, Sanjuro, to incorporate its main character?
Yojimbo
"MOVIE SONGS": "I Need To Wake Up" (a 2006 documentary)
an inconvenient truth
Knock knock! Oh hi, it's this creepy title monster who inhabits Amelia in a 2014 Australian film
babadook
"B": Victor Herbert operetta that featured Laurel & Hardy in 1934, it was remade in 1961
babes in toyland (Also did The Music Box)
In this '63 film, Jesse Pearson played rock star Conrad while rocker Bobby Rydell was Hugo Peabody
bye bye birdie (also had Ann Margret)
This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School
the paper chase
Dennis Quaid played Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper in this movie:
the right stuff
It won top prize in 1949 & a 2015 restoration also played Cannes in the centenary year of Orson Welles, who played Harry Lime
third man
"Rocky Horror" gave us this dance that's "just a jump to the left, & then a step to the right with your hands on your hips..."
time warp