Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1Which current hit teams Cheadle with Gleeson?

2"A romantic comedy. With zombies." The tagline to which comic smash?

3Who came after Columbus, Cuarón and Newell?

4"They'll see. They'll see and they'll know and they'll say: 'Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly'." The last line of which shocker?

5Child genius. Holly Hunter returns for Thanksgiving. Mel goes mad. Whose oeuvre as director?

6Up in Smoke. Nice Dreams. Still Smokin'. Which befuddled pair?

7Russell Crowe. Naomi Watts. Mel Gibson. Nicole Kidman. How many of them were born in Australia?

8Visconti's Sicilian epic (pictured). Jack Lemmon's second Oscar. Christmas with Henry II. Mario Van Peebles's study of black radicals. What's the connection?

9What role links Dennis Farina, Scott Glenn and Harvey Keitel?

10Who is the only actor to have won an Oscar for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film?

Answers:

1. The Guard

2. Shaun of the Dead

3.Yates. (Directors of successive Harry Pottermovies)

4. Psycho

5.Jodie Foster ( Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays, The Beaver)

6.Cheech and Chong

7.None.

8.Big cats ( The Leopard, Save the Tiger, The Lion in Winter, Panther)

9.Jack Crawford in the Hannibal Lecter films ( Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon)

10.Joan Fontaine. (And, no, not for Rebecca. She got the gong for Suspicion.)