US Film

Now I’m a bit older I think “The Matrix” is one of those films I should re-watch because just maybe I might understand it this time. In reality I’d rather watch Keanu kicking lumps out of people in the “John Wick” series.

Questions

Commercials for video games like “Destiny” and “Gears of War” are some of the earlier work by which American director of “Top Gun: Maverick”? He teamed up with Miles Teller again for “Only the Brave” and “Spiderhead”.

JOSEPH KOSINSKI

His pilot given the call sign ‘Hangman’ in “Top Gun: Maverick”, Glen Powell represented someone who went even further into the sky when he portrayed which astronaut in “Hidden Figures”?

JOHN GLENN

Son to a famous actor, who played the pilot known as ‘Bob’ in “Top Gun: Maverick” and stars alongside Brie Larsen in the TV drama series “Lessons in Chemistry”?

LEWIS PULLMAN

Playing Arnie’s daughter Emma Brunner in “FUBAR”, in which upcoming James Mangold film is Monica Barbaro down to play Joan Baez opposite Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan?

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

Coming to prominence through the “Maze Runner” trilogy of films, who was the American director of “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”, the fourth film in the series re-boot?

WES BALL

2024’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is set a few hundred years after which 2017 film in the series that included Woody Harrelson in its cast and starred Andy Serkis as Caesar?

WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

The role of Mae in “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” was taken on by which English actress who has brought the video game character Ciri to life in “The Witcher” TV series?

FREYA ALLAN

Not particularly well acclaimed, which 2015 space opera brought to us by the Wachowskis that stars Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum has one of its settings as a refinery in the Great Red Spot?

JUPITER ASCENDING

German actors Benno Fürmann, Moritz Bleibtrau and Cosma Shiva Hagen all pop up in which 2008 film by the Wachowskis that was an adaptation of a Tatsuo Yoshida manga?

SPEED RACER

Its story being continued in the relatively short-lived MMORPG “The Matrix Online”, what was the third film in “The Matrix” film series?

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS

Three was seemingly not a crowd when signing up to direct “Cloud Atlas” when the Wackowskis teamed up with which German filmmaker whose other films include “Run Lola Run” and “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”? The trio worked together again on the Netflix sci-fi series “Sense8”.

TOM TYKWER

First appearing in 2004, which comic book series written by the Wachowskis sees a famous literary character from an 1818 novel get involved with the Scopes Monkey Trial and Roe v. Wade?

DOC FRANKENSTEIN

Involving a professional assassin who must exact revenge for the murder of a Triad member, which 1998 debut feature film by Antoine Fuqua was set in Los Angeles and saw the American debut of Chow Yun-fat?

THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS

What was the repetitively titled name of the 1963 comedy in which Jayne Mansfield became the first significant American actress to do a nude scene on film since the silent era?

PROMISES, PROMISES

Based on a 2010 documentary, which 2018 Robert Zemeckis film stars Steve Carrell as Mark Hogancamp, a man struggling with PTSD who creates a fictional village to ease his trauma?

WELCOME TO MARWEN

Although nominated for the Best Costume Design Oscar it is regarded as a box office flop. Who played the two leads in Robert Zemeckis’ 2016 film “Allied”, and in which city is it set?

BRAD PITT, MARION COTILLARD & CASABLANCA

Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred as Philippe Petit in which 2015 Robert Zemeckis film that was based on the famous highwire performer’s “To Reach the Clouds”?

THE WALK