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The reasons why Vin Diesel didn’t return as Dom for 2 Fast 2 Furious

The reasons why Vin Diesel didn’t return as Dom for 2 Fast 2 Furious

There was no 2 Vin 2 Diesel this time around… The Fast & The Furious was released in June 2001, and managed to rake in over $207 million from a $37 million budget, so of course the producers wanted a sequel ASAP. Apparently they’d already known that Vin Diesel might not come back for the […]

5 years ago

The original cast for The Fast & The Furious was going to be very, very different

The original cast for The Fast & The Furious was going to be very, very different

The movie celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Cinema history is filled with “almosts”, in that there have been plenty of examples of huge actors turning down huge roles and you can’t help but think about the parallel universes in which those actors’ careers take off in different directions thanks to those roles. We’re talking […]

5 years ago

Netflix has added an Academy Award-winning modern classic that you have to see

Netflix has added an Academy Award-winning modern classic that you have to see

Spotlight is not just an important film, but a very good one. Netflix has added the 2015 drama film about The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” investigative journalism team which exposed wide-ranging child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Boston, Massachusetts. The film, which boasts an all-star cast of Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Stanley […]

8 years ago

Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins an Oscar as Spotlight causes major upset

Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins an Oscar as Spotlight causes major upset

Spotlight has been named Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards. The film, which looks at the Boston Globe’s investigation into child sex abuse by members of the Catholic Church, took the biggest prize on the night despite the fact that Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu had been named Best Director for The Revenant. It was his […]

10 years ago

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