Mark Harrison, Author at Film Stories

Film Quiz Friday: The Christmas Movie Quiz

by Mark Harrison | Dec 15, 2023 | Feature

Christmas comes but once a year, so this week’s film quiz offers 30 festive movie questions to make your spirits bright....

Doctor Who in the 2020s and beyond: lockdowns, Ncuti Gatwa, and things to come

by Mark Harrison | Dec 14, 2023 | Feature, TV

This latest celebration of Doctor Who's 60th-anniversary focuses on Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin's Doctors, Russell T Davies' return, and our hopes...

Film Quiz Friday: The Aardman Animation edition

by Mark Harrison | Dec 08, 2023 | Feature, News

We’re big fans of Aardman Animation here at Film Stories Towers. With the new Chicken Run sequel out soon, this week’s film quiz covers their cra...

Film Quiz Friday: Future Nostalgia

by Mark Harrison | Dec 01, 2023 | Feature

Cheer up, it might never happen! As we hurtle towards the end of another year, this week’s film quiz covers movies set in a future now past....

Film Quiz Friday: The Name Game

by Mark Harrison | Nov 24, 2023 | Feature

Ridley Scott's Napoleon is now in cinemas, and this week's film quiz is on first name terms with various biopics. 30 movie-themed questions – come a...

Doctor Who in the 2010s: the Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and Jodie Whittaker years

by Mark Harrison | Nov 23, 2023 | Feature, TV

Doctor Who reinvented itself more often in the 2010s than any other decade. But what did stars Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and Jodie Whittaker each...

Film Quiz Friday: Date Movies

by Mark Harrison | Nov 17, 2023 | Feature

Happy Film Quiz Friday everyone! As Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving arrives in UK cinemas, this week’s film quiz roves around the movie calendar…...

Doctor Who in the 2000s: the Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant years

by Mark Harrison | Nov 16, 2023 | Feature, TV

Russell T Davies regenerated Doctor Who for the 21st century, with Christopher Eccleston and then David Tennant as the Doctor. We look back at RTD's...

Film Quiz Friday: Make Mine Marvel

by Mark Harrison | Nov 10, 2023 | Feature

Greetings, true believers! This week’s film quiz is all about The Marvels – the 32 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that is…...

Film Quiz Friday: A Bunch Of Fives

by Mark Harrison | Nov 03, 2023 | Feature

Any daily word game fans? Your training will come in handy in this week’s film quiz, which features plenty of five-letter answers....

Film Quiz Friday: Scary Questions To Answer In The Dark

by Mark Harrison | Oct 27, 2023 | Feature

Four more days ‘til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween – and now that’s stuck in your head, have a horror-themed film quiz, with 30 scary movie quest...

Doctor Who in the 1970s | The Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker years

by Mark Harrison | Oct 26, 2023 | Feature, TV

Colour TV revolutionised Doctor Who in the 1970s, from Jon Pertwee’s Earthbound adventures to Tom Baker’s multi-coloured, multi-genre shenanigans....

Film Quiz Friday: Settling Scorsese

by Mark Harrison | Oct 20, 2023 | Feature

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to ask 30 questions about movies. This week’s film quiz highlights the films of Martin Scorsese....

Doctor Who in the 1960s | The William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton years

by Mark Harrison | Oct 19, 2023 | Feature

Turn back the clock to 1963 with us, as we revisit Doctor Who’s beginnings with William Hartnell in the lead role, and its first regeneration in the P...

This week's film quiz is all about sequels, like Die Hard 4

Film Quiz Friday: Sequelizer 4.0 - Live Free Or Quiz Hard

by Mark Harrison | Oct 13, 2023 | Feature

Sequels are harder to name than we make it look, but this week’s film quiz includes another bunch of second-movie subtitles....

Naked Gun 4 | The story of the lost sequel, featuring Leslie Nielsen

by Mark Harrison | Oct 12, 2023 | Feature

The 2009 script for a fourth Naked Gun movie featured a sizeable role for Leslie Nielsen’s Frank Drebin.

Film Quiz Friday: His Name Is Michael Caine

by Mark Harrison | Oct 06, 2023 | Feature

The Great Escaper is the latest film starring the mighty Michael Caine, and this week’s film quiz provides a very selective look at his f...

When three George MacKay films hit UK cinemas on the same day

by Mark Harrison | Oct 04, 2023 | Feature

Roll over Barbenheimer – it’s been 10 years since George MacKay Day. We look back at Sunshine On Leith, How I Live Now, and For Those In Peril…

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Film Quiz Friday | The 30th Anniversary Edition

by Mark Harrison | Sep 29, 2023 | Feature

September has seen a wide array of 30th-anniversary re-releases, so this week’s Friday film quiz reflects on some of the big movies of 1993....

Dracula movies, and their box office troubles

by Mark Harrison | Sep 27, 2023 | Feature

Neither had the Count above the title, but both of Universal’s Dracula movies, Renfield and The Last Voyage Of The Demeter, underperformed at the US box office this year…

Film Quiz Frid4y: And So Fourth

by Mark Harrison | Sep 22, 2023 | Feature

This week’s film quiz is brought to you by the number 4, with 30 questions about fourth instalments and other famous Fours on film.

Film Quiz Friday: Murder In Three Rounds

by Mark Harrison | Sep 15, 2023 | Feature

Exercise your little grey cells with this week’s film quiz – 30 movie-related questions, including a who’s who round on the casts of Kenneth Brana...

Film Quiz Friday: Something Rotten

by Mark Harrison | Sep 08, 2023 | Feature

In this week’s film quiz, we highlight the movies that are still waiting for a single positive review to be logged on Rotten Tomatoes – welcome to The...

Film Quiz Friday: All Mashed Up

by Mark Harrison | Sep 01, 2023 | Feature

Your weekly film quiz is back! 30 movie-related questions, including the return of the mighty movie title mashup game…...

Where you can watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe on UK TV

by Mark Harrison | Aug 10, 2023 | Feature

It’s not what it sounds like – is it possible to watch all of the Marvel Studios movies with only a UK TV licence? Well, you’ve had your work cut o...

Barbie vs Oppenheimer at the UK box office

Film Quiz Friday: Barbie Vs Oppenheimer

by Mark Harrison | Jul 21, 2023 | Feature

We come to it at last, the great box-office battle of our time! This week’s film quiz is themed around new releases Barbie and Oppenheimer....

Film Quiz Friday: Cruise Control

by Mark Harrison | Jul 14, 2023 | Feature

Run, don’t walk, to this week’s film quiz – with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One out in cinemas now, we’ve got a round on the movies of...