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Movies puzzles and trivia.

From Casablanca to A24.

The Movies category runs the full span of film history, from Bruce Lee throwing the first punch to A24 rewriting what a studio can be. You'll spell your way through the grammar of the medium and the people who bent it.

Some themes lean technical. Roger Deakins and the way a cinematographer paints with light. Found Footage and the trick of making a shaky camera read as proof. Others are pure movie-lover territory: Inception folding a city over itself, the Mockumentary's straight-faced lie, the night of the Best Picture Mix-Up when the wrong envelope changed everything.

The game underneath stays simple. You remember where the letters hide, match the pairs, and spell the theme in as few flips as you can. Each theme is hand-picked because it says something about how movies get made or why they stick.

Whether you came up on NYU Film School lectures or just love sitting in the dark, there's a puzzle here for you. Start anywhere. The reel's already running.

Themes worth recognizing.

A sample of the 297 Moviesthemes in the game. Tap one to read the fact behind it.

The kind of words you’ll spell.

A taste of the Movies vocabulary behind the puzzles.

  • CAMEO
  • EPICS
  • FLICK
  • FOCUS
  • FRAME
  • REELS
  • SCORE
  • BIOPIC
  • CAMERA
  • CINEMA
  • DOUBLE
  • EXTRAS
  • MOVIES
  • POSTER
  • REMAKE
  • SCRIPT
  • SEQUEL
  • SILENT
  • STUDIO
  • TICKET
  • BACKLOT
  • CASTING
  • CLOSEUP
  • EDITING
  • FANTASY
  • FEATURE
  • FILMING
  • FOOTAGE

Three facts to start.

A24

36 years after acting roles stopped, Ke Huy Quan won an Oscar for *Everything Everywhere All At Once*. He played Waymond Wang, the laundromat husband.

After the Credits

*The Avengers*' shawarma scene was shot the day after the film's 2012 premiere. Chris Evans had already grown a beard for his next role, so he eats with a hand clamped over his chin.

Akira

*Akira* was hand-painted across more than 160,000 frames. Its dialogue was recorded before the animation, so artists could draw the mouths to match the voices, a rare reversal for the era.

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