Movie puzzle (March 2026)

How many movie titles can you make from the letters above?

There is a 1988 comedy based on the Great Train Robbery, which stars a well-known singer.

Horror fans may discover the not-very-well-received Lou Diamond Phillips horror in which certain creatures attack a small Texas town. 

If you can reuse letters, there is an award-winning comedy drama well known for its use of animatronics, about a particular farm creature who wants to do the work typically done by another type of farm animal.

Reusing letters also helps you find a 2015 Italian neo-noir crime flick that spawned a tv series, and a very well-received minimalist movie about a Nigerian footballer living in Vietnam, directed by Bao Le.

But to be a star, you'll have to find the one-word movie title, a classic thriller, that uses each letter once. Can you find it?

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Monthly movie puzzle (February 2026)

How many movie titles can you make from the letters above? A five-letter one starring Tom Hardy? Another four-letter one starring Sam Rockwell? Or there's the latest in a space adventure series.

A movie in which Nicole Kidman plays the foster mother of a man trying to find his way home?

If you are allowed to use letters more than once, you'll find a David Fincher classic. Or Ryûhei Kitamura's  2012 slasher starring Luke Evans as a highway crime victim who turns out more murderous and hellbent on destruction than his gang of assailants.

Real movie loons might find a 2007 Brendan Cowell film too, about a Melbourne cop driven crazy by an incessant ringing in his ears.

And what about a 2018 movie title that uses each letter once?

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Movie puzzle (August 2022)

Lost in Space

An SF and superhero movie wordfind puzzle

Find all of the science-fiction and superhero movie titles in the grid. There's thirty titles in the list below the grid but thirty-one titles hidden in the grid.  Can you find them all?

ADASTRA   AVATAR   ALIENS   BIG   BLADERUNNER   CYBERPUNK2077   DEADPOOL2   DUNE   GHOSTBUSTERS   HANCOCK2   INCEPTION   IRONMAN   JURASSICPARK   MATRIX   MEMORIA   MOONFALL   MORBIUS   PASSENGERS   SONIC   STARWARS   STRANGERTHINGS   TENET   THEMARTIAN   TMNT   TRON   VENOM   XMEN   2001   2012

Some questions for when you are done:

• What is the title of the secret thirty-first movie?
• Which three movies in the list haven't been made yet?
• How many movies in the list have you seen?

Email us for a pdf version of this puzzle: cinecalreviews@gmail.com

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Movie puzzle (November 2019)

How many movie titles can you make from the letters above? 

Starting small, there's a fairly recent Disney Pixar animated film series, and a colourful spy thriller with Helen Mirren.

What about a 2017 Martin Freeman film about a father's race to save his baby? A Freddie Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter drama?

There is also a Taylor Lautner action thriller about a group of parkour enthusiasts who get involved in crime.

If you can reuse one letter, there's a gruesome sequel with Ed Norton and a 1971 crime flick starring Michael Caine that was remade with Sylvester Stallone in 2000. Reuse two letters for a sci-fi movie that spawned sequels and a string of tv series.

And what about a recent movie title that uses each letter once?

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Movie puzzle (May 2019)

How many movie titles can you make from the letters above? 

There's a sci-fi classic AND its sequel. And there is another 2017 sci-fi movie (I think a copy of that first one) that stars an actor who has also recently played a popular Marvel superhero.

She isn't a superhero but there is another movie in which Angelina Jolie's title character does superhuman physical feats as she is chased around the world by multiple Government agencies.

There's a paranormal thriller starring Denzel Washington.

If you can filter out all the other stuff in your head and concentrate, you may discover a 2010 Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton movie.

There's a Jodie Foster title. And thriller fans may find a very early-career Mark Wahlberg thriller of 1996 that took the same name as a 1990 Ally Sheedy thriller about a psychic chasing a serial killer.

If you are allowed to use letters more than once, you'll find a Jim Carrey movie and a Stephen King adaptation.

And what about a 2017 remake that uses each letter once?

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Monthly movie puzzle (January 2019)

Are you a film buff? Coming up with the answers to each of the fourteen clues below will test your movie mettle, but then you face an additional test - the answerline.

The answerline is a vertical word or phrase that will only become apparent once you have realised how each answer is related to all the others. Only once you've discovered the answerline will it be confirmed just how familiar you are with your movies!

CLUES

1. Extremely (gorgeous, for example) how one sibling might respond to another sibling's taunts (4,4)

2. Third-person singular version of a Village People song heads toward the sunset or disaster (4,4)

3. Loaded like Rockefeller and really sweet like chocolate cake (4)

4. Moe, Larry and...Nicole Kidman's hair (5)

5. Upkeeping without United Kingdom sneaking a look (7)

6. Past tense verb collocation with breath, the curtains, a picture, and blood (4)

7. Pine, Pratt or Tucker the Tank Engine loses ho when ho ho ho is heard. (8)

8. Initially, Marvel actor driven Unsane? (3)

9. Chase down Ash, Cherry or Pine, for example. (6)

10. Murder right out of whale food (4)

11. She accompanies a beau to a dance led by Dakota Fanning's sister. (5)

12. Possibly inside or odd things people have to make money (4)

13. Behaves like The Titanic - ruins good news. (4,4)

14. Riggs oddly dropped from Glover's feeling (4)

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Monthly movie puzzle (July 2018)

The eight synopses below, considered in conjunction with the eleven letters in the diagram, reveal a secret movie-related word or phrase. Film buffs will have no trouble finding the answer.

SYNOPSIS 1
Elizabeth experiences an emotional crisis in adulthood and has her problems exacerbated by the return of the razy, troble-making imaginary friend she had in childhood. (1991)

SYNOPSIS 2
While sleepwalking, a high schooler learns from a man-sized rabbi that the world will end in twenty-eight days. A premonition? Or might the student be suffering psychosis or suffering from his being surrounded by so many inauthentic characers? (2001)

SYNOPSIS 3
A young Irish man participates in a fake duel then spends hs life on the run trying to promote himself in British society. He arouses sympathy, outrage and ire in the women and society figures aroud him. (1975)

SYNOPSIS 4

After losing his job, Otto reluctantly starts work as a repossession agent for an eccentric boss. A beautiful woman, Leila, encouraes him to find a Chevy Malibu which she says has some sort of otherwoldly contents in the boot. (1984)

SYNOPSIS 5
While romancing a local pet-shop owner, a small-time bxer has the chance of fighting in the ring with a heavyweight champion. It's a fight that might help him recover some of the self-esteem his hardknock life has rbbed him of. (1976)

SYNOPSIS 6
Judah's friend Messalah falsely accuses him of attacking a Roman governor. He is iprisoned. His family is banished. Years later, Judah seeks to restore his and his amily's honour by participating in a chariot race. (1959)

SYNOPSIS 7
On the day he is to inherit the rule of his father's realm, a god is stripped of his power and banished to Earth. His other probem is that in his absence his brther back home is proceeding with plans that threaten the kingdom. (2011)

SYNOPSIS 8
An ogre and his companin, a donkey, travel to a kingdom to help a host of banished fairytale characters reclaim their right to live happily ever afte. (2001)

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Monthly movie puzzle (November 2017)

"I've never heard of any of them and they all sound terrible!" My exasperated friend threw the newspaper to me and it was my job suddenly to decide what we were going to see.

We saw two, once I'd made sense of the cinema guide. Can you work out which?

THE DEVIL'S PERISCOPE 4:30 5:00 7:00

CITY OF FELLAS 4:45 5:30 6:30 9:00

TO DIE OF THE APOCALYPSE 4:45

SHARK 19 5:45

AIR FORCE RANGER 6:00 6:30 8:00

FLIGHT T TERROR 7:35 11:45

WHIP GORDON 3:00 7:00 9:00

PROJECT MACHINA 8:00

EVIL ASHES 8:25 11:45

BLACK SPOTTING 8:15 9:45

SLAUGHTERHOUSE 17 8:15 10:00

WALL-ANIMATOR 6:45 8:45 10:45

KINGS GIRLS 9:00

MERCURY ARIZONA 9:15

THE BIG IT 9:30 11:00

APOCALYPSE PIERCER 9:45 10:45 11:45

MAD MUM RISK 7:15 9:15 11:15

RAM TROLLS 11:25

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