This alleged biopic of African-American NASCAR racer Wendell Scott was nothing of the sort. While not a bad film per se, it played fast and loose with the facts, not least the fictional upbeat ending. What’s more, Scott never earned a penny from this Richard Pryor vehicle.

The ‘plot’ for this film by B-movie maestro Roger Corman notionally centres on a journalist’s plan to expose a grand prix driver as being a rum cove, only to have second thoughts after he saves his life. There are some decent action sequences, but the, cough, ‘acting’ is beyond bad.

If 2001’s The Fast and the Furious is now considered a cult classic that launched a huge movie franchise, then the 2009 reboot was an epic flop. Featuring the original cast reunited but with little script, plot and a shedload of dodgy CGI, it made Tokyo Drift look good…