Actors
Words & Phrases
Playing the Villain
100
This late, great actor excelled at playing movie villains
Rickman
100
To invent a new word or phrase is to do this--makes cents
to coin
100
Dennis Hopper won a Best Villain MTV Movie Award for menacing a bus in this film
Speed
200
This redhead was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "The Help" but lost out to castmate Octavia Spencer
Chastain
200
Meaning "false step" in French, it's a socially embarrassing act or remark
a faux pas
200
John Malkovich is a menace in the skies as the felon Cyrus the Virus in this 1997 thriller
Con Air
300
After winning an Oscar in 2023, he exclaimed, "Goonies never say die!"
Ke Huy Quan
300
Term for the technical jargon of attorneys & their documents
legalese
300
Played with cackling excellence by Ian McDiarmid, this character returned from the dead in "Star Wars: Episode IX"
Emperor Palpatine
400
In "A Fish Called Wanda", John Cleese played Archie Leach, actually the real name of this movie star
Cary Grant
400
"He who pays the piper holds the reins" is an example of this, incorrectly fusing 2 symbolic comparisons
a mixed metaphor
400
As him in 1982, Ricardo Montalban says, "I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you"
Khan
500
This Canadian doesn't just act: she also wrote & directed "Women Talking"
Sarah Polley
500
From the Latin for "announce", this means to pronounce clearly & correctly
to enunciate
500
We rooted for him in "Get Out" and "Queen and Slim" but not when he made life miserable for the title women in "Widows"
Daniel Kaluuya