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Friday, January 4,
2008 THE SIMPSONS MOVIE
Trivia: The character of Russ Cargill went through two different designs. Burger King, which licensed the right to make give away figurines of the characters, had started making figures of the rejected design when the change was made for the movie. Also, a number of mutated animals were considered for use, including a four eyed deer and five eyed raccoon, when it was decided to use a multi eyed squirrel as the result of Springfield Lake's pollution. However, the five eyed raccoon was included on the BK Marge Simpson figurine.
Friday, January 11,
2008 BLADE
Trivia: Blade's silently-mouthed "What... the... fuck?" is a direct reference to the "A Fistful of Yen" segment from The Kentucky Fried Movie.
Friday, January 18,
2008 MONSTER
Trivia: Aileen Wuornos, a notoriously uncooperative person, gave director Patty Jenkins access to hundreds of letters she had written and received in order to gain insight into Aileen's life.
Friday, January 25,
2008 INSOMNIA
Trivia: Will Dormer's name comes from the Latin word "dormire" - to sleep.
Friday, February 1,
2008 SIXTEEN CANDLES
Trivia: Jim Carrey auditioned for the role of Ted "The Geek".
Friday, February 8,
2008 I AM SAM
Trivia: The scene where Sam, Lucy, and Sam's friends are walking across the street with the balloons is a tribute to famous photograph of The Beatles crossing the street from the cover of "Abbey Road".
Friday, February 15,
2008 SERENDIPITY
Trivia: The drink Sara and Jonathan drink at Serendipity 3 is its famous Frozen Hot Chocolate. Also, since the movie opened, the table where they sit has been called the Star Table at the restaurant.
Friday, February 22,
2008 THE TERMINAL
Trivia: When "the war is over" and where Tom Hanks and other people sing the national anthem they sing The Albanian National Anthem in "gibberish" words.
Friday, February 29,
2008 ROCKY 2
Trivia: Sylvester Stallone seriously injured a pectoral muscle during his intensive training for this movie.
Friday, March 7,
2008 TBA
Friday, January 5,
2007 ERASERHEAD
Trivia: Jack Nance kept his hair in the same frizzy style for the duration of filming - almost five years.
Friday, January 12,
2007 YELLOW SUBMARINE
Trivia: The three-dimensional effect for the animated smokestacks just before the "Eleanor Rigby" sequence was accidental. The animators can't recall how they did it, and many have tried to recreate the effect.
Friday, January 19,
2007 MONKEY BUSINESS
Trivia: Early in the movie, the Marx Brothers--playing stowaways concealed in barrels--harmonize unseen while performing the popular song 'Sweet Adeline.' This marks the only time that Harpo's voice, a clear baritone, was ever heard on film.
Friday, January 26,
2007 THE WEDDING SINGER
Trivia: The butterfly jean jacket that Julia wears throughout the movie actually belongs to 'Drew Barrymore' . The director liked her jacket and told her to wear it as part of her costume.
Friday, February 2,
2007 THE BLUES BROTHERS
Trivia: Singer/guitarist Joe Walsh can be seen during the "Jailhouse Rock" sequence at the end. He still had long hair and a long mustache at the time and is the first prisoner to jump up on a table and start dancing.
Friday, February 9,
2007 IN OLD CHICAGO
Trivia: The 20 minute climactic fire sequence cost $150,000 to stage and burned for 3 days on the Fox backlot. It helped make "In Old Chicago" one of the most expensive films made at the time.
Friday, February 16,
2007 HIGH FIDELITY
Trivia: Rob says he is an educated guy who has read books like "Love in the Time of Cholera". This book plays an important part in another John Cusack movie, Serendipity.
Friday, February 23,
2007 FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF
Trivia: Cindy Pickett and Lyman Ward, who played Ferris's parents, married in real life after filming this movie.
Friday, March 2,
2007 THE DOORS
Trivia: John Travolta was considered for the role of Jim Morrison in 1986. During the time Travolta was being considered he met the band (who were initially quite involved with the possible production), and they discussed reforming the band and going on tour with Travolta on vocals. In the end the band chose not to do this because they felt John Travolta was too nice to fill Morrison's shoes.
Friday, March 9,
2007 MALLRATS
Trivia: Seth Green was on call, ready at any moment to fly to Minnesota so he could replace Jason Mewes as Jay.
Friday, March 16,
2007 SIGNS
Trivia: The scene in which Graham has his last conversation with his wife was scheduled for 12 September 2001, and was filmed after a cast and crew candlelight vigil.
Friday, March 23,
2007 THREE O'CLOCK HIGH
Trivia: During Jerry's book report, he asks his English teacher, what is her favorite book. She replies, "Turn of the Screw," and then he kisses her. In Turn of the Screw, there is a part where a tutor is kissed by her student.
Friday, March 30,
2007 MAJOR LEAGUE
Trivia: Pete Vuckovich, who played Yankees home run threat Haywood, was in real life a pitcher who never hit a single home run in his entire 11 year major league career.
Friday, April 6,
2007 STRANGER THAN FICTION
Trivia: While filming, Will Ferrell had an earpiece that fed him Emma Thompson's narrative line in order to assist the other actors react more naturally to Ferrell's seemingly non-sequitur lines.
Friday, April 13,
2007 FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2
Trivia: Following the release of the movie, Adrienne King had numerous encounters with an obsessive fan. The situation escalated into a stalker case, and she decided to avoid any further acting opportunities. She has not done any film work since.
Friday, April 20,
2007 THE DEPARTED
Trivia: Originally, Jack Nicholson turned down his role in the movie, but after a meeting with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, he was finally convinced to play the role of Frank Costello. The main reason he joined the production was because he had previously done a few comedies, and wanted to play a villain again, and he considered the character of Costello to be the ultimate incarnation of evil.
Friday, April 27,
2007 HIGH NOON
Trivia: The pained expression on Kane's (Gary Cooper's) face throughout the film was not acting; Cooper had a bleeding ulcer at the time.
Friday, May 4,
2007 Rescheduled to May 11, 2007 due to last minute emergency.
Friday, May 11,
2007 CHEECH AND CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE
Trivia: On the wall where the phone is in their house is some graffiti "Dave's not here" a reference to one of their earlier audio sketches.
Friday, May 18,
2007 NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD!
Trivia: John Houseman's final film appearance.
Friday, May 25,
2007 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
Trivia: In the scene where Sir Lancelot swings from the chandelier to escape from Swamp Castle, one of the "dead" guards can be seen waving to the camera.
Friday, June 1,
2007 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Trivia: The Blind Man's parting line "I was gonna make espresso" was not in the script, but was ad-libbed by Gene Hackman during shooting.
Friday, June 8,
2007 THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN
Trivia: During the opening credits, one of the movies parodied is The Sound of Music (1965), which starred Blake Edwards' wife, Julie Andrews.
Friday, June 15,
2007 No movie scheduled for this week. Out of town plans.
Friday, June 22,
2007 ORGAZMO
Trivia: Trey Parker and Matt Stone had originally intended for the film to be a musical; like their previous film, Cannibal! The Musical. Unfortunately, they had trouble enough finding investors for the unusual story of Orgazmo on its own, so that idea was dropped.
Friday, June 29,
2007 JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK
Trivia: Alanis Morissette's appearance marks one of the few times in movie history where an actress/actor appears for the first time in the movie, after being listed in the end credits.
Friday, July 6,
2007 AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY
Trivia: Comedian Colin Quinn was offered the role of Scott Evil, but he turned it down to focus on his writing projects.
Friday, July 13,
2007 MEATBALLS
Trivia: Many of the extras in the film were actual campers and counselors of the camp; most if not all locations were actual camp facilities.
Friday, July 20,
2007 PORKY'S
Trivia: This was the highest-grossing movie from Canada for 24 years. As of October 2006, it is now second highest, having been beaten by Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006).
Friday, July 27,
2007 EUROPEAN VACATION
Trivia: Dana Hill suffered from juvenile diabetes, which made shooting of Audrey's nightmare scene somewhat difficult. Dana had to be very careful to avoid actually swallowing any of the food she was supposed to be eating.
Friday, August 3,
2007 A FISH CALLED WANDA
Trivia: Michael Palin went on to found the London Centre for Stammering Children after a group of stutterers confronted him regarding the sensitivity with which he dealt with Ken's handicap in this film.
Friday, August 10,
2007 REVENGE OF THE NERDS
Trivia: According to an interview with Curtis Armstrong (Booger) on the Special Edition DVD, the sound that comes out of his mouth to win the belching contest is actually the sound of two camels mating.
Friday, August 17,
2007 THE JERK
Trivia: Bill Murray filmed a cameo that was deleted. On the 15 December 1979 broadcast of "Saturday Night Live", Murray jokingly reviewed 'The Jerk', saying: "I was in the movie but cut out of it. That doesn't influence my opinion. The movie is a dog. There's something missing. I don't know who it is, I can't say."
Friday, August 24,
2007 No movie scheduled for this week. Out of town plans.
Friday, August 31,
2007 "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC: LIVE!
Trivia: Al's parents appear in the concert.
Friday, September 7,
2007 ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING
Trivia: Elisabeth Shue landed the lead role after Jodie Foster and Justine Bateman both declined.
Friday, September 14,
2007 ROCKY
Trivia: Sylvester Stallone quit smoking cigarettes while making this film because he was getting out of breath.
Friday, September 21,
2007 ELIZABETHTOWN
Trivia: The picture of Susan Sarandon holding a baby on the mantelpiece in the flashback, is the same picture used in Stepmom.
Friday, September 28,
2007 MAN ON THE MOON
Trivia: Jim Carrey refused to be called by his real name during the entire production - to get into the part, he insisted on being dealt with as Andy Kaufman at all times, on and off the set.
Friday, October 5,
2007 KING KONG (2005)
Trivia: The digitally-rendered 1933 NY is so detailed that it contained 90,000 separate buildings.
Friday, October 12,
2007 HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH
Trivia: After Michael Myers died in Halloween II, the plan by 'John Carpenter' was to make a new "Halloween" movie each year, each telling a different Halloween related story. After this movie failed at the box office, the film-makers decided to bring Michael back to life for future sequels.
Friday, October 19,
2007 PSYCHO (1960)
Trivia: First American film ever to show a toilet flushing on screen.
Friday, October 26,
2007 THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
Trivia: The human skeleton in the house at the end of the movie was a real human skeleton. They used a real one because a human skeleton from India is far cheaper then a fake plastic skeleton.
Friday, November 2,
2007 CLERKS II
Trivia: The idea to have Jason Mewes do his The Silence of the Lambs dance to "Goodbye Horses" came straight from Mewes who apparently does this on a regular basis to the director.
Friday, November 9,
2007 No movie scheduled for this week. Out of town plans.
Friday, November 16,
2007 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Trivia: The infamous scene in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the swords out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful tries, someone made the off-handed remark, "Why doesn't he just shoot him and get it done and over with?" Steven Spielberg immediately took up the idea and the scene was successfully filmed.
Friday, November 23,
2007 KILLING ZOE
Trivia: Although the film's set is suposed to be Paris, it was entirely shot in L.A. The crew just shot the first and the final road sequences in the city of Paris.
Friday, November 30,
2007 SLEEPER
Trivia: Woody Allen confirmed the scientific feasibility of his screenplay ideas in a single lunchtime meeting with Isaac Asimov.
Friday, December 7,
2007 STRIPES
Trivia: Originally created and written as "Cheech and Chong Join the Army."
Friday, December 14,
2007 CASINO ROYALE (2006)
Trivia: This is the first film since Dr. No where there were no dancing females during the opening title sequence.
Friday, December 21,
2007 TWENTY BUCKS
Trivia: Christopher Lloyd won a Best Supporting Actor Independent Spirit Award in 1994 for his performance.
Friday, December 28,
2007 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Trivia: Stanley Kubrick deliberately made continuity errors just before the author worked out who Alex is. The dishes on the table move around and the level of wine in the glasses change between shots to give a feeling of disorientation to the viewer.