Episodes IV-VI
These small furry creatures from Return of the Jedi dismayed the purist fans of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
What are Ewoks?
This handsome young actor's career seized up after playing an unhinged motel owner.
Who is Anthony Perkins?
He's been in two Tarantino movies, sci-fi movies, zombie movies, action films, heist pictures, dramas, comedies, AND he's been a vampire.
Who is Brad Pitt?
This director is considered the greatest Japanese animator.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
This prolific and celebrated director broke the "white ceiling" and has completed 22 feature-length dramas.
Who is Spike Lee?
Han Solo is frozen in this substance before being transported by the bounty hunter, Boba Fett.
What is carbonite?
This talented costume designer won 8 Academy Awards and was nominated for many others.
Who is Edith Head?
This tragically short-lived singer played a powerful Black vampire in Queen of the Damned.
Who is Aaliyah?
This Japanese director's films contain beautiful photorealistic scenes but use less hand-drawn art than his predecessor.
Who is Shinkai Makoto?
This American filmmaker is most known for his Black Panther films.
Who is Ryan Coolger?
The imperial walkers seen on the ice planet Hoth used this "special effect."
What is stop motion?
An all-American favorite, this actor's life isn't wonderful in four different Hitchcock films.
Who is Jimmy Stewart?
This film by indigenous Maori director parodies both documentaries and vampire films.
What is What We Do in the Shadows?
This beloved and chubby cat-bunny-like beast is now the symbol for all Studio Ghibli films.
Who is Totorro?
A former film publicist, this director is the first African American woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival, to be nominated for a Best Director Golden Globe, and to direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Who is Ava Duvernay?
He is both a mentor and the wise old man archetype.
Who is Obi-Wan Kenobi?
"Lisa. Carrol. Fremont."
Who is Grace Kelly?
This Mission Impossible star also played the Vampire Lestat.
Who is Tom Cruise?
This dark fantasy anime is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the remains of humanity live behind walls protecting them from giant humanoid monsters.
What is Attack on Titan?
Ms. Covington love's this directors movies as well as his comedy sketches.
Who is Jordan Peele?
R2D2 and C3PO were inspired by this 20th century comedy duo.
Who are Laurel and Hardy?
Hitchcock is known for making these in all of his films.
What is a "cameo?"
This Black Blade actor stars not as a vampire, but as "something different."
Who is Wesley Snipes?
This seminal anime was made in 1988 and takes place 2019, 31 years after the Japanese government nukes Tokyo. A bike gang leader tries to save his friend from (another!) secret government project.
What is Akira?
This director's debut coming-of-age film starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Tyra Ferrell, Laurence Fishburne, Regina King, and Angela Bassett.
Who is John Singleton?