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2 weeks ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison takes a look at the times UK TV presenters have been asked to dub animated characters. This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 36 in September 2022. As long as there have been talking pictures, there's been ‘foreign-language cinema’, and Hollywood’s English-language films are dubbed into umpteen languages for worldwide distribution.
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4 weeks ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
In this week’s film quiz, a letter from the quizmaster, 30 new movie-related questions about Hollywood endings, and that’s a wrap!May has been a pretty final sort of month for movies, between Final Destination: Bloodlines and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. And to borrow a catchphrase from another quiz, I’ve started so I’ll finish. Film Quiz Friday started during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.
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1 month ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
Like Disney franchise-crasher Stitch from Lilo & Stitch, this week’s film quiz takes the movie title mashup game to the House of Mouse. Like the 2002 original, 2025’s Lilo & Stitch’s marketing sees the titular alien critter crash various Disney properties, adjusted for the inflation of the company to encompass Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox.
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1 month ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
This week’s film quiz, should you choose to accept it, features questions about the Mission: Impossible movie franchise. Over time, the Mission: Impossible franchise has become one of Hollywood’s most reliable staples. After running (practically galloping) for almost 30 years, Tom Cruise’s adventures as Ethan Hunt will apparently culminate in next Wednesday’s big release, The Final Reckoning, so we’re marking the occasion with a quiz round all about the thrills and spills so far.
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1 month ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
Let’s all meet up in the year 2000 – this week’s film quiz covers movies that have their 25th anniversaries this year. The sixth Final Destination film Bloodlines arrives in cinemas next Wednesday, not long after the original’s 25th anniversary, so this week’s quiz is a little nostalgic. As discussed in a previous quiz, 1999 is one of the great American movie years, but now it’s time for a bit of turn-of-the-century trivia, covering movies from the year after.
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1 month ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
In this week’s film quiz, only one name stands out in Marvel’s Thunderbolts – Bob! 30 movie-related questions, coming up…The Marvel Cinematic Universe is now so massive that you don’t need the big title characters to make a team-up movie like Thunderbolts* (their asterisk, not ours). You can have a Black Widow (not that one), the Winter Soldier, Ghost, Taskmaster, U.S. Agent, and a new guy called Bob, played by Lewis Pullman. So, naturally, we’ve gone with a Bob-themed quiz.
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2 months ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
This week’s film quiz should last you Until Dawn at least – 30 questions, some of them about movies set over one night. With A Minecraft Movie still on the rampage in cinemas (literally in some cases), April’s other big video-game adaptation is Until Dawn, a horror movie in which staying alive for the night is trickier when the night keeps looping back to the beginning every time they’re killed.
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2 months ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
Here are the answers to our quiz from 18th April 2025 – how did you do? 1. In cinemas now! Which new release marks the fifth collaboration between Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler? Sinners2. Born this week, who directed 2021’s Last Night In Soho? Edgar Wright3. Who plays Secret Service agent Mike Banning in Olympus Has Fallen and its sequels? Gerard Butler4. In which decade is Escape From New York set? The 1990s (it’s set in the far-off futuristic world of 1997, specifically)5.
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2 months ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
The new Lilo And Stitch and Mission: Impossible films both open on the same weekend. But Tom Cruise has met Stitch at the box office before…One is a chaotic pint-sized fugitive who’s too fast to catch, the other is an alien hiding out on Earth. We’ll let you make your own jokes with that one. Crucially though, Tom Cruise and this particular Disney character have already opened against each other in cinemas once before.
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2 months ago | 
filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison
This week’s film quiz takes a leaf out of several different books featured in movies – 30 questions, off you go…What connects this week’s cinema releases, The Amateur, The Return, and the 30th anniversary re-release of Babe? They’re all based on literary sources, much like the second round in this week’s film quiz. However, we’ve gone down the road of books in films rather than books adapted into films, so you may need your reading glasses for this one.
