Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1Who is back this week to play a "Game of Shadows"?

2Which absurdly busy person links the following 2011 pictures: The Help, The Tree of Life, The Debt, Take Shelter, Wilde Salome, Texas Killing Fieldsand Coriolanus?

3

Who’s missing: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Helen Rose Byrne?

4What was the first all-colour film to win the best picture Oscar?

5Which film series concerns the adventures of Sam Witwicky?

6David Rose, Vincente Minnelli, Sid Luft and two others. Who are we talking about?

7Mr Kellogg's adventures. A musical set in Argentina. Misery in Munster. Death penalty melodrama. Whose last four?

8Identify the director (pictured)

9Which is the highest grossing film of 2011 that is not a sequel, remake or adaptation?

10What links Maximum Overdrive, Johnny Got His Gunand The First Great Train Robbery?

Answers:

1Sherlock Holmes

2Jessica Chastain

3Kristen Wiig (The bridesmaids in Bridesmaids)

4 Gone with the Wind

5 Transformers

6Judy Garland (Her husbands)

7Alan Parker ( The Road to Wellville, Evita, Angela's Ashes, The Life of David Gale)

8Ingmar Bergman

9 Rio

10All directed by the authors of the source novels or stories (Stephen King, Dalton Trumbo, Michael Crichton)