The secret struggles of Yorkshire’s first Oscars ‘Best Picture’ nominee: “Please don’t try to be all northern”
Not an easy road.
Author: Scott Campbell Archives: 02/2026
Christopher Nolan’s abandoned return to British cinema: “I think another director will do that”
It’ll never happen now.
The Coen brothers movie inspired by a visit to a sex museum: “We’ll show you the machine”
Inspiration can come from anywhere.
The Razzie-winning performance Madonna said she was “sabotaged” into giving: “We all make bad movies”
She does have nine of them.
The one classic rock band Stephen King can’t stand: “Don’t get me started”
Odd, since he loves the genre.
The “bloodsucker” Paul Newman swore he’d never work for: “Not that anyone gives a shit”
He knew how to hold a grudge.
The sentence that got Susan Sarandon a lifetime ban from the Oscars: “I didn’t care at all”
It didn’t last a lifetime.
The black-and-white version of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ that almost was: “It would have been a little pretentious”
A monochromatic masterpiece.