Preston, Idaho: The town of 5,000 behind independent cinema’s first 21st-century phenomenon
Pedro for president.
Author: Lily Hardman Archives: 03/2026
The movie Peter O’Toole called “an example of true, true bottomless stupidity”
Take it a from a man who knows.
The only time Anthony Hopkins lost a role to Arnold Schwarzenegger: “Did he play the part?”
A seamless replacement.
When obvious casting becomes too obvious: the James Bond villain Gary Oldman turned down
He would be the perfect Bond villain.
“So unpleasant”: the “rather poor picture” that traumatised Orson Welles
Blending truth and fiction.
The “legendary erotic film” that became Bong Joon-ho’s guilty pleasure
What even is a “guilty pleasure”?
