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30th Sep 2017

La La Land (2016)

Trivia: At the Oscar ceremony in 2017, the film was accidentally named Best Picture, instead of true winner Moonlight, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were accidentally handed the wrong envelope. Such a gaffe had never occurred in the Oscars' history before.

1st Aug 2017

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

Trivia: Ice Cube is played by O'Shea Jackson, Jr., his real-life son.

19th Jul 2017

Jurassic World (2015)

Trivia: For Zara's death scene, Katie McGrath did all of her own stunts.

13th Jul 2017

The Terminator (1984)

Trivia: Though she's a registered Democrat, Linda Hamilton voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican candidate, in California's 2003 recall election that saw Schwarzenegger become the state's governor.

24th Apr 2017

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Trivia: Because so little architecture from the decade still exists, David Yates chose not to shoot on location; instead, the production designers created, from scratch, their own painstakingly detailed version of 1920s New York as a practical, physical set.

24th Apr 2017

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

Trivia: Chirrut being blind was Donnie Yen's idea.

30th Mar 2017

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

Trivia: Mariska Hargitay is a trained rape crisis counselor. She was inspired to pursue her certification, and founded the Joyful Heart Foundation in 2004, after she began receiving mail from fans disclosing, many for the first time, that they were survivors of sexual assault and/or abuse.

27th Feb 2017

The Mentalist (2008)

Trivia: It's mentioned that Lisbon is from Chicago, which actually is Robin Tunney's hometown; she also played a Chicago native in the first season of Prison Break.

30th Jan 2017

NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)

Twisted Sister - S4-E9

Trivia: Sean Murray and Troian Bellisario, who play siblings in the series, are step-siblings in real life.

30th Jan 2017

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Trivia: John Nash is to date the only Nobel Prize winner to be the subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner.

24th Jan 2017

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Trivia: Of the 2015 Academy Award nominees, it was the only film to earn nominations in both the Leading Actor and Leading Actress categories.

6th Jan 2017

NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)

Incognito - S13-E3

Trivia: In one scene, a movie marquee promoting the showing of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is visible. Though the film itself isn't relevant to NCIS, David McCallum was featured in the 1960s TV series on which it's based.

3rd Jan 2017

Modern Family (2009)

Trivia: Though Luke is portrayed as being stupid, Nolan Gould has an IQ of 150 and is a member of Mensa.

1st Jan 2017

Leverage (2008)

The Bottle Job - S2-E11

Trivia: The con called "the wire" that Nate and the crew run on Doyle is the same con, albeit an abbreviated version, that Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker run on Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting.

1st Jan 2017

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)

Trivia: Though they were credited as executive producers during the show's entire run, the only involvement in the series on the parts of Fran and Kaz Kuzui came from financing and producing the Buffy movie.

31st Dec 2016

Castle (2009)

The Final Frontier - S5-E6

Trivia: The voice of Oracle, the computer on the "Nebula 9" ship, is provided by Stana Katic.

19th Dec 2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

Trivia: The first live action Star Wars film to not feature an opening crawl.

12th Nov 2016

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

Season 1 generally

Trivia: Reiko Aylesworth, who guest stars as an ADA in the episodes "Contact", "Remorse", and "Slaves", was one of the finalists for the role of Detective Benson.

16th Oct 2016

The Double (2011)

Trivia: Despite relatively high billing in the opening credits, Stana Katic only has about five minutes of screen time.

11th Oct 2016

Macbeth (2015)

Trivia: "Macbeth" is Michael Fassbender's favorite Shakespeare play.