Trivia: Jack Coleman (Noah Bennet from Heroes) turned down the role of Barry Allen to pursue a career on Broadway.
Cubs Fan
8th Jan 2016
The Flash (1990)
26th Dec 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
23rd Dec 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Trivia: This is the first Star Wars film in which Harrison Ford receives top billing.
16th Dec 2015
Smallville (2001)
Trivia: Justin Hartley is the first actor to play a live-action version of the Green Arrow.
14th Dec 2015
Arrow (2012)
Trivia: Although Laurel is a couple of years older than Sara, Katie Cassidy is only about a month older than Caity Lotz.
14th Dec 2015
Smallville (2001)
Trivia: Michael McKean, who guest stars as Perry White, is married to Annette O'Toole, who plays Martha Kent.
9th Dec 2015
Castle (2009)
20th Nov 2015
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
16th Nov 2015
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Trivia: The pivotal role of "Minnesota Ryan", the Private Ryan that Captain Miller mistakes for the Private Ryan for whom he is searching, is played by a very young and, at the time quasi-unknown, Nathan Fillion.
16th Nov 2015
Law & Order (1990)
16th Nov 2015
Music of the Heart (1999)
Trivia: Meryl Streep's role is the only performance for which Wes Craven directed an actor to an Academy Award nomination.
11th Nov 2015
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Trivia: After Marty and Doc arrive in 2015, Marty sees a news alert that the Chicago Cubs have won the World Series. On the real October 21, 2015 - the date at which Doc and Marty arrive in the film - the Cubs were eliminated from the playoffs after getting swept in the NLCS by the New York Mets, but won the World Series a year later.
9th Oct 2015
South Park (1997)
Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000 - S4-E2
Trivia: This episode and the following episode, "Timmy 2000", both ridicule musician Phil Collins, who won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Song, beating out "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
11th Sep 2015
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
20th Jul 2015
The Flash (2014)
Tricksters - S1-E17
Trivia: Mark Hamill plays James Jesse, the original Trickster, a role he also played twenty-five years earlier in the 1990 Flash TV series.
7th Jul 2015
Castle (2009)
Trivia: This episode was originally scheduled to air after "The Fast and the Furriest." Because of its subject matter, in light of the bombing at the Boston Marathon, it was postponed for a week and "The Squab and the Quail" was aired in its place.
5th Jun 2015
San Andreas (2015)
Trivia: At a red carpet event to promote the film, Dwayne Johnson set a world record of 105 selfies in three minutes, averaging out to one picture every 1.7 seconds.
25th May 2015
Castle (2009)
Trivia: When Castle is sitting in holding, and Jerry Tyson shows up to taunt him, Tyson's cop disguise has a nameplate with "J. Rook" on it. This is a reference to Jameson Rook, the fictional character in Castle's Nikki Heat books that he based on himself.
25th May 2015
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
Trivia: Detective Goren is loosely based on Sherlock Holmes.
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