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I love studying and writing about film: narrated original edits, making-of featurettes, and stories you might not know. Anti-film snob.

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I recently watched Harrison Ford’s courtroom drama, Presumed Innocent (1990), and noticed one of these reporters is getting fired. 🤣😂

Happy 100th, Mel Brooks He really is the King of Comedy, and as we know...

A rare uncut Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. For YEARS I swore there was a version where Christian Slater says: “Fuck me. He cleared it.” UK edits sanitised it to “Blimey…” or “My my…” Well, it’s back, baby!!!

Mel Brooks "It's good to be the king."

All I’m seeing on my timeline is The Odyssey. Whether you love it or hate it. On behalf of all of us...

Saddened by the news of Tom Stoppard’s passing. Possibly the greatest playwright of his era—definitely the most playful. ‘Shakespeare in Love’ is full of clever tributes for Bard fans, plus this gem: for anyone who’s acted, it’s the truest line about theatre ever written.

Star Wars is 48 years old today. Some Stormtrooper clones are taller than others. Movie mistakes are often so good they make the cut, Star Wars goes one better. The Stormtrooper on the right not only hits his head on the door, they timed a sound effect to coincide with it.🤣

Is this helicopter real or CGI? I was watching Your Friends &amp; Neighbours and Jon Hamm and his mates got in this helicopter, and it did THIS. One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. I think I’ve just become a mechanophiliac, and I didn't even know that was a thing.

31 Film Facts That Sound Like April Fools But Are True — THREAD Weird trivia, hidden easter eggs, bizarre deaths, dangerous shoots, and literal acts of God. It's all here… and a bunch of these will make you go: 1/

What film does the Cannon logo remind you of?

“I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it… If my work has anything it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together…. I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don’t do homages.” - Quentin Tarantino

12 Reasons Why Die Hard IS a Christmas Movie. A Thread... The arguments around the 'Christmassiness' of Die Hard revolve around three themes: creative, commercial and cultural. So let's put this to bed so you can watch this Festive classic in peace. #DieHard 1/

And who could have predicted both would marry up perfectly? Watch this. 🤣😂😂

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Patrick Stewart holds the record for most takes on Extras with Ricky Gervais, which is quite an achievement. It’s wonderful watching a man with such Shakespearean gravitas reduced to a quivering wreck saying “Knickers.” 🤣😂 Such a beautiful man. RIP, Patrick.

Catherine Schell couldn’t survive multiple takes of Peter Sellers’ Bogart impression in Return of the Pink Panther (1975) without breaking. Blake Edwards finally had to give up and leave them in the final cut. “Here is lurking at you, kid.” 🤣

Two great things about San Andreas: Alexandra Daddario’s reaction to getting drenched by massive mechanical dump tanks blasting hundreds of gallons of water at her, and Kylie Minogue hilariously hamming it up… right before taking a header off a building.

Patrick Stewart was spectacular. He brought Shakespearean gravitas to space and helped make Star Trek a dramatic powerhouse. This scene is a masterclass in screen acting: he displays two distinct emotions at once, and does it beautifully. We’ve lost an absolute titan.

Bridgette Wilson’s 25-second fight scene in Last Action Hero sent her down some weird paths. She was a last-minute replacement for Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat after Cameron Diaz broke her wrist. She also became a serious in-demand pop star in Japan, releasing two albums.

Captain Phillips’ ending was shot on the fly with real U.S. Navy personnel. Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Danielle Albert was told to treat Hanks like a real patient, and it shook him. A Navy captain watching the shoot said: “I’ve seen trauma, and that’s what it looks like.”

Winona Ryder was a generational crush: instant visual shorthand for alternative cool. She perfected the intelligent, cynical, emotionally raw underdog in films like Heathers and Reality Bites. And if rumour has it, she also liked to wear out hat-wearing pop singers.

Milla Jovovich bringing Resident Evil-style action to 17th-century France is easily the best part of the steampunk Three Musketeers. She also ditched the cliché of women dressing as men to fight, insisting Milady battle in classic ball gowns inspired by Van Dyck portraits.

Dana Carvey watched Withnail and I while prepping Wayne’s World 2, got fixated on Ralph Brown’s spaced-out Danny, and wrote him into the movie. They treated it like a spiritual reprise, recreating the flat from Withnail, right down to the wallpaper.

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Jacqueline Bisset’s glass-elevator scene in Class with Andrew McCarthy was filmed in full view of the public. They couldn’t shut down Chicago’s Water Tower Place mall, so shoppers gathered to watch. McCarthy was infatuated with Bisset, “Nothing has ever been the same since.”

Few have weaponised their own good-girl image as successfully as Elisabeth Shue (63 today). Her journey from 80s sweetheart to raging cougar is one of the best actor pivots in Hollywood. Never forced, always fearless, and somehow still disarming.

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Ray Liotta never stood a chance with mother/daughter con artists Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt in Heartbreakers. Then comes a sci-fi fan’s dream cameo: two genre icons sharing the screen together. Weaver said joining Star Wars felt like “carrying the torch” for Fisher

Robert Redford is too handsome and charming for the central moral dilemma in Indecent Proposal, which undermines the movie’s logic. Demi Moore sleeping with Redford for $1M doesn’t feel soul-crushing; it feels like an amazing night out. You end up rooting for Redford, not Woody.

Steve McQueen didn’t know he was dying while making The Hunter. A week after wrapping, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer linked to asbestos exposure. The film hit screens in August 1980. Three months later, McQueen was gone. He was 50.

Tarantino pushed Travolta to say yes to Get Shorty. John passed on the script. Then QT called: “This isn’t the movie you pass on. Trust me, do it.” Travolta listened, delivered one of his coolest performances, and won a Golden Globe.

Dustin Hoffman slapped Meryl Streep without warning just before filming this scene for Kramer vs. Kramer. You can still see the mark on her cheek. He said he was channelling the character. She said he overstepped. They never worked together again.

Kevin Kline was mainly known as a serious dramatic actor until A Fish Called Wanda changed all that. He won an Oscar for playing Otto: an armpit-sniffing, Italian-spouting pseudo-intellectual, beating Alec Guinness and River Phoenix.

Mickey Rourke was so convincing as Charles Bukowski in Barfly that when the writer died, the NY Post ran Rourke’s photo instead Barbet Schroeder threatened to cut off his own fingers with a battery-powered saw to save the film after Cannon threatened to pull the plug They blinked

Zardoz exists because Lord of the Rings didn’t. John Boorman lost the funding for his Tolkien adaptation, so he rerouted everything into Zardoz. Ironically, Sean Connery turned down Gandalf in ’99 because he “didn’t get it”… but he got this.

The Norm entrance jokes on Cheers were famously tough to write. George Wendt delivered 200+ of them over 11 seasons. As the show’s popularity grew, so did expectations. Writers said the real genius wasn’t always on the page; it was Wendt’s physical comedy, delivery, and timing.

Is this helicopter real or CGI? I was watching Your Friends & Neighbours and Jon Hamm and his mates got in this helicopter, and it did THIS. One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. I think I’ve just become a mechanophiliac, and I didn't even know that was a thing.