August 21, 2024During Elemental (2023) Disney opening credits, you can see the Pride Rock from The Lion King (1994) (2019) in the background.
August 21, 2024in hot fuzz 2007 a cricket paddle from SOTD can be seen in one of the scenes with Nicholas in the office.
August 20, 2024In the commentary of Kick-Ass (2010), director Matthew Vaughn explains the choice of a yellow Range Rover getting crashed at 0:47:10 as a nod that he was done with his previous movie, Layer Cake (2004), which also featured the same car. Source in comments.
August 20, 2024In the movie Iron Mask (2019) at 0:25:07, James Hook (Arnold Schwarzenegger) briefly holds Aragorn’s sword, Narsil/Anduril, from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), introducing it as King Arthur’s sword.
August 20, 2024In Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), the Spider-man that tells Miles that “there’s nowhere to run” is voiced by Metro Boomin, one of the composers of the movie’s soundtrack.
August 20, 2024In Spider-Man (2002), Norman Osborne is seen to be at odds with a guy named ‘General Slocum’. In real life, General Slocum was a passenger ship that caught fire and sank, becoming New York’s deadliest tragedy until the 9/11 attacks.
August 19, 2024In Dune Part Two (2024) The Gladiator scene foreshadows the ending (Explination in comments)
August 19, 2024In Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), a Space Jockey helmet from Alien (1979) can be seen mounted as a trophy on the Predator spacecraft (confirmed in the director’s commentary).
August 18, 2024The 4+ minute fight scene in The Protector (2005) took 4 days and 8 attempts to complete. Because of the film camera’s weighted stabilizers the first operator was replaced due to the physical exertion of repeatedly running up the stairs.
