Michael Caine based one history-making performance on John Lennon
Doing things he’d never done before.
Author: Scott Campbell Archives: 03/2026
“It’s on a different level”: the only one of his movies that Martin Scorsese can bear rewatching
It’s not what you’d think.
“It wasn’t going to work”: why Ron Howard was forced to swap Pennsylvania for Buenos Aires
Not exactly like-for-like.
The “excruciatingly boring” Palme d’Or-winning movie Roger Ebert hated with a passion
He was in the minority.
“I’m not doing that”: the one and only movie scene too dangerous for Dennis Hopper to shoot
He willingly blew himself up with dynamite once.
“I made such bad films”: how softcore porn almost destroyed Stellan Skarsgård’s career
He survived, just about.
The one role Tom Cruise was born to play: “I want to make your dreams come true”
It’s one of his best.
