Mark Harrison

6 days 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | filmstories.co.uk | Mark Harrison

In cinemas this week, Jason Statham is A Working Man. This week’s film quiz covers some other, more specific job titles…“Human traffickers beware”, says the tagline for A Working Man, the latest team-up between Jason Statham and The Beekeeper director David Ayer. While their latest is less specific about what his actual job is, the Stath has had some ambiguous job titles before – beekeeper, mechanic, transporter – and they all somehow involve fighting bastards.