Mark Harrison

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Film Quiz Friday | The Final Friday

1 week 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.
Film Quiz Friday | Stitched Up

2 weeks 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.
Film Quiz Friday | Quizzing: Impossible

3 weeks 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.
Film Quiz Friday | Disco 2000

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.
Film Quiz Friday | Bobbing Along

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.
Film Quiz Friday | It Happened One Night

1 month 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.
Quiz Answers: 18th April 2025 (Turner And Who?)

1 month 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.
Tom Cruise vs Lilo & Stitch | Summer 2025’s biggest box-office rematch?

1 month 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.
Film Quiz Friday | Fully Booked

1 month 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.
Film Quiz Friday | Six Of The Best

2 months ago | filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison

Let’s talk about SIX, baby, let’s talk about two and three, let’s talk about all the maths puns in the film quiz for this week…This week brings several new UK cinema releases but for many, Universal’s event cinema release of SIX: The Musical Live! will be the big draw over Easter. The musical comedy about the wives of King Henry VIII has been one of the big post-lockdown theatrical hits on stage and it’ll probably make a big splash on screen too.