Hello to everyone who has been following this blog for many years - I'm still blogging, I'm just moving over to https://www.claireheffer.com/blog - please continue to follow and let me take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been kind enough to visit over the years. May the lists continue...
Showing posts with label bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bird. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 June 2017



FILM 1652: HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE

TRIVIA: In the birthday scene, the cast and crew filmed ten takes singing the normal "Happy Birthday" song before finding out they didn't have the rights to use it. So the song "Ricky Baker, It's your Birthday" was created on the spot by the actors.

Director Taika Waititi makes a cameo as the minister.

The word majestical was used by Shakespeare and appears in Hamlet (Act 1,Scene 1) when Marcellus refers to the departing Ghost's monarchial appearance:
'Tis gone. We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence, For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.



Saturday, 28 January 2017



FILM 1614: THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 

TRIVIA: Chloe tells Pops (who thinks she's a dog) that she's a cat, and he replies "Nobody's perfect," an iconic line from Some Like It Hot (1959).

The leader of the Flushed Pets is named Snowball. The Flushed Pets hate humans because of past mistreatment. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Snowball is one of the two pigs who lead the revolution on the farm against humans who have mistreated animals.

A scene shows a cab driver listening to his radio, which is playing Pharrell Williams' "Happy," which debuted in Despicable Me 2 (2013), another Illumination Entertainment film.

A Times Square billboard advertises Saturday Night Live (1975). Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, Dana Carvey, Laraine Newman, and Louis C.K. have all appeared on and/or written for that show.