Visible crew/equipment: When Bashir mentions the name of Jephson he leans backwards and a white lighting screen gets reflected on his lenses. (00:12:44)
Sacha
4th Jan 2023
The Crown (2016)
4th Jan 2023
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When the truck is about to run Thornhill over, skidmarks running along the road appear/disappear randomly between shots.
4th Jan 2023
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When the plane crashes against the truck its wipers face the left side. A shot later they are facing the right side.
4th Jan 2023
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Revealing mistake: During the gang fight, whenever there's a close-up of someone falling on the road it wobbles and bounces giving away it's a rubber mattress. More evident after a guy is launched through a window and another is crushed against the road. (00:19:43)
2nd Jan 2023
Ten Commandments (1956)
Revealing mistake: When Bithiah names the baby Moses the clouds behind remain motionless for minutes revealing it's a backdrop.
2nd Jan 2023
The Crown (2016)
Continuity mistake: After the actress throws the script on the bed, the script keeps changing position in every shot.
1st Jan 2023
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When the opening credits roll-in stating that the events are fictitious, there is a shot of a woman in blue exiting a building. When the credits end after Hitchcock's cameo, the same shot is re-used though this time from a couple of seconds earlier.
18th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Visible crew/equipment: When Thornhill exits the phone booth 6 stage lights are reflected on the glass door.
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Thornhill is served a Martini in the train, check the toothpick and you'll see it keeps moving around between shots.
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Other mistake: At the train station, the same red-haired woman in a green dress with two distinctive suitcases appears three times in different places despite her walking the opposite way. Sometimes she has a hat and others not.
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Thornhill makes a call at the train station the cord of the phone is curled in the wide angle but straight in the close-up.
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When the CIA meets, the paper next to the professor changes positions between shots and a matchbox appears and disappears randomly.
15th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Thornhill is at the Plaza with his friends, a man grabs a drink and takes a sip while he places his left hand on the table. A shot later the glass is on the table and his left hand not.
15th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: Amount of people walking on the street changes drastically between the moment Thornhill is in the cab with his secretary to when he gets out.
13th Dec 2022
Goldeneye (1995)
Visible crew/equipment: At Q's lab, when Bond opens the car door a huge round stage light is reflected, which wans't there before in the previous opposite angle.
11th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Visible crew/equipment: When the crop duster and the truck are about to explode and the truck drivers run away, one can tell it's not Cary Grant watching the havoc but his stunt double because of his rounder face and slightly different hairstyle. Also confirmed by actress Eve Saint-Marie.
11th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Thornhill watches the road from the crop field, the way he holds the crop and how the leaves bend, differ between the front and back shots. Also, his hands disappear and the leaves swap between dry and green.
11th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: At the field, the first time Thornhill throws himself on the floor there's just a road with gravel. When he stands up there's suddenly hay everywhere.
6th Dec 2022
Commando (1985)
Continuity mistake: After Jenny is abducted and Matrix chases the bad guys, the windshield in his car swaps between very dirty and dusty in the wide angles to spotless in the close-ups.
28th Nov 2022
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Continuity mistake: In the car park, when Bond activates the car-camera the phone screen shows the car next to Bond and the black and yellow column, but not Bond, despite him being in sight.
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