Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1 Which new release replaces (sort of) Matt Damon with Jeremy Renner?

1 Which new release replaces (sort of) Matt Damon with Jeremy Renner?

2 Which film series features a sinister computer network named Skynet?

3 “One tiny spark becomes a night of blazing suspense”. The tagline to which 1974 smash?

4 Which movie star concealed a tunnel in Andy Dufresne’s cell?

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5 Martin Scorsese (1977 2002), John Carpenter (1981), Charlie Kaufman (2008): What’s the connection?

6 The affairs of a gynaecologist. Country house mystery. Ballet. Garrison Keillor. Whose last four?

7 Alan Ladd, Robert Redford and, next year, Leonardo DiCaprio. Which iconic figure?

8 Name the director (pictured).

9 Whose work almost always began with Dance of the Cuckoos?

10 Who has played Kris Kringle, Pinkie Brown and John Hammond?

And the answers . . .

1. The Bourne Legacy

2. The Terminator

3. The Towering Inferno

4. Rita Hayworth (The Shawshank Redemption)

5. New York movies (New York, New York and Gangs of New York, Escape from New York, Synecdoche, New York)

6. Robert Altman (Dr T & the Women, Gosford Park, The Company, A Prairie Home Companion)

7. Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby

8. David Fincher

9. Laurel & Hardy

10. Richard Attenborough (Miracle on 34th Street, Brighton Rock, Jurassic Park)