Todd Phillips names the five movies that inspired ‘Joker’
A strange comic inclusion.
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 01/2024
How ‘Poor Things’ became Emma Stone’s favourite role
“So lucky to get to play a character like her.”
‘The Day the Clown Cried’: The 1970s movie cancelled for being too controversial
It could be unsealed sooner rather than later, though.
The tragedy on the set of ‘Midnight Rider’ that saw a crewmember hit by a train
The movie’s legacy is in the courtroom, not on the screen.
When Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher partied with The Rolling Stones
The actors enjoyed a “Tunisian Death Drink”.
The classic horror Roger Ebert called a “great barf bag movie”
Not quite a glowing appraisal, but a recommendation nonetheless.
The actor John Carpenter says he would have given his “eyeteeth to work with”
That doesn’t mean they weren’t used as an inspiration anyway.
Michael Caine once explained why he’d hate to be in a western
Roaming the dusty plains wasn’t a priority.
Martin Scorsese on the one film that inspired ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
“Characters speak only the language of force and plunder—that’s all they know, as in our picture.”
The reason why Sam Raimi never made ‘Spider-Man 4’
The fingerprints of studio interference are never less than grubby.