August 16, 2025In Superman: The Movie (1978), Otis tries to add ‘Otisburg’ to Lex Luthor’s map. In Superman (2025), the character is credited as Otis Berg — a nod to that moment.
August 15, 2025In Sprited Away (2002), when Chuhiro has her name taken, it’s reduced to the character 千. This character, on its own, just means “1000”. Yubaba is literally reducing Chuhiro down to a number
August 14, 2025Today (14 August) is the 78th anniversary of the beginning of events depicted in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)” as can be deduced by this newspaper which is seen on the “second day” of the film.
August 14, 2025In Iron Man (2008) as Tony is starting to test fly the Mark 2 in his garage driveway his suit’s UI briefly highlights a possible collision point in red and then moments later Tony scrapes this wall on his flight out
August 13, 2025In Iron Man (2008) when Obadiah Stane goes to visit the Ten Rings the Mark 1 is shown to have damage at the back of the helmet from when Tony Stark was shot there at extremely close range in the initial cave escape sequence
August 13, 2025In Tremors (1990), the poles that Earl, Rhonda and Val use to polevault away from the Graboids were left behind from a fence Val & Earl didn’t finish
August 12, 2025The VFX team for Independence Day (1996) flipped and reused the Empire State Building explosion for the alien ship destruction
August 12, 2025In “Weapons” (2025), the principal and his husband’s lunch is a tribute to Trevor Moore from him skit “Hot Dog Timmy”. Trevor Moore was a friend of Weapons director Zach Creggar who passed away.
