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Author: Michael Gordon Archives: 02/2025
The Eddie Murphy comedy that forgot to be funny: “More jokes were shot and added in”
This one needed a comedy salvage job.
The Oscar-nominated performance that mesmerised Clint Eastwood: “He’s just so creepy in this picture”
Eastwood couldn’t take his eyes off this actor.
Release date revealed for Luca Guadagnino’s ‘After the Hunt’
The acclaimed Italian director is a busy, busy man.
When William Friedkin’s counterfeit money caught the Secret Service’s attention: “This guy was an artist”
Did Friedkin spend this fake money? You bet he did.
When James Caan learned how to crack a safe for Michael Mann: “Jimmy, break in”
Caan learned all the tricks of the trade from real thieves.
Quentin Tarantino’s favourite Quentin Tarantino ripoff: “That might be the only film that guy ever made”
When is a ripoff not actually a ripoff?
The best director John Wayne ever worked with who wasn’t John Ford: “He liked spontaneity”
Wayne loved this director, who couldn’t have been more different than Ford.
The scene Morgan Freeman called the greatest of his entire career: “Precious moment”
This scene is precious to Freeman, even though he called his role a “mistake.”
The two movies that screwed Robin Williams over: “Don’t pump me again, motherfuckers”
Williams felt betrayed by Warner Brothers over these movies.
The director Katharine Hepburn hated working with so much she spat in their face: “I have nothing more to do with you or your film?”
Hepburn was disgusted by how her co-star was treated.
The classic movie Burt Reynolds refused to watch: “I needed a good film badly at the time”
This movie angered Reynolds so much that he refused to ever watch it.