Spotlight director reveals power of the Irish reaction to Oscar-winning scandal movie about Catholic Church
With It is inarguably one of the best movies of the last decade. Winner of Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars, and nominated for Best Directing, Best Editing, and two nominations for Best Supporting Actor, Spotlight is one of those rare Academy darlings that continues to stand the test of time. Featuring […]
5 years ago
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 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
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier director on how Ridley Scott influenced the action sequences
That opening action sequence alone was on par with something you’d see in a big screen Marvel movie. Mortgage repayments. Long therapy sessions. Bad first dates. Selling fish. Lots of stuff happened in the first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that would have you believe that it isn’t quite the story we […]
5 years ago
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
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