“I wondered if I was good enough”: the role that convinced Jason Segel his career wasn’t a dead-end
Was scared of ending up typecast.
Author: Tim Bradley Archives: 04/2026
Tommy Lee Jones’ wholly uninspiring advice for aspiring actors: “It’s called showbusiness, not show art”
Doesn’t recommend it as a living.
“In a class all by himself”: the “lucky” actor Paul Newman said was out of everybody’s league
One of the highest-grossing ever.
“Box office poison”: the disastrous run that nearly ended Jackie Chan’s career
Almost faded without trace.
The five greatest movie soundtracks of all time, according to Daniel Radcliffe
Knows his way round a mixtape to say the least.
Communism’s unsung role in a defining period for British film censorship
A private society hosted banned films from the Soviet Union.
“I’m open for it”: John Travolta’s awful Fred Durst movie was technically Joaquin Phoenix’s fault
A total and utter disaster.
The short, pungent, and altogether questionable history of Smell-O-Vision
Got right up moviegoers’ noses.
“He was just reacting”: In 1986, Mel Brooks created one of horror’s most iconic lines
A true poster classic.
“It was a really sad time”: Angelina Jolie’s 1998 breakthrough movie was almost her last
Proved to be the making of her.
“This is the only way”: how one question convinced Rick Moranis to return to acting
30 years had passed in the meantime.