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First Take: Fast & Furious 8- yes, it’s a different title for British audiences

Spoiler free as usual. Because epic car chases deserve a big screen. SYPNOSIS: When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of terrorism and a b…
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First Take- Furious 7- For Paul.

SYPNOSIS: Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother. And now here we are, almost up to date with the f…
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First Take: Fast & Furious 6- building to the magnum opus of car films

SYPNOSIS: Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his p…
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First Take: Fast Five- Rock ‘n’ Rio time.

SYPNOSIS: Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lor…
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First Take: Fast & Furious- the rebirth of a franchise

SYPNOSIS: Brian O'Conner, back working for the FBI in Los Angeles, teams up with Dominic Toretto to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating h…
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First Take: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift- it’s ranting time

SYPNOSIS: A teenager becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing after moving in with his father in Tokyo to avoid a jail sentence in Amer…
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First Take: 2 Fast 2 Furious- the difficult second film

SYPNOSIS: Former cop Brian O'Conner is called upon to bust a dangerous criminal and he recruits the help of a former childhood friend and street …
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First Take: The Fast and the Furious- the film that began a mega franchise

SYPNOSIS: Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Conner must decide where his loyalty really lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing wor…
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Projection Room- checking into the Renata

IMAGE: Eric Colvin (Percival) and CJ de Mooi (The Stranger) in The Renata Road Back in January I had the honour of attending the very first screening o…
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First Take: Ghost in the Shell 3D- decent enough for this sort of film

SYPNOSIS: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devo…