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From 1986 to 1991, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, worked on an oral history of his life with the star’s family, friends and closest work colleagues. They amassed 14,000 pages of notes and eventually gave up, unable to manage the sheer volume any more. The screen …

As the race to become the next James Bond continues to rage on, many actors have expressed their interest in taking on the career-defining role. The Bond odds are swamped with well-known Hollywood stars, including Henry Cavill, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Tom Hardy, but British actor Rupert Friend is keen to …

Easy Rider was a pop culture phenomenon and established Peter Fonda (son of legend Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda) and Dennis Hopper as two of the brightest and most significant stars of the era. They fought hard against an entrenched, reactionary Hollywood system to get it made, but …

Tom Cruise is gearing up to start promoting his new thriller, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, but he has hit a snag. The picture, which has been filmed with IMAX cameras, will hit cinemas on July 12 and will have exclusive use of IMAX cinemas throughout the following …

Marvel’s version of Spider-Man was put to a definitive close with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home back in 2021. Since then, it seemed as if Tom Holland’s rendition of the wall-crawler had come to an end. The British actor himself fed into these rumours when he confirmed he …

Harrison Ford may be promoting Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but he always has one eye on where he came from. During a new interview, he talked about the 1997 picture The Devil’s Own, which he worked on with Brad Pitt. As it turns out, the movie was …

Sylvester Stallone is undoubtedly one of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time. The 1980s movie legend is not only known for Rambo, Demolition Man, The Specialist, and countless other popular franchises. But his biggest and best film series of all time is without question the Rocky series – which …

Blue Hawaii was one of Elvis Presley’s post-army movies of the early sixties alongside GI Blues, both of which are on BBC 2 this afternoon. The musical, which featured his hit song Can’t Help Falling in Love, saw The King play Chadwick Gates, who returned home to the Pacific US …

The week’s episode of the official YouTube documentary series takes Queen fans back to 1982 when Freddie Mercury and the band performed at the Milton Keynes Bowl as part of their Hot Space Tour. The song of focus in the live footage this time around is Dragon Attack, which Brian …

Paul Hogan stars in Crocodile Dundee While the romantic comedy Crocodile Dundee II made waves when it hit cinema screens back in 1986, the movie made an irreversible impact on the lives of the movie’s stars. The then 55-year-old actor behind Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan, was married during filming, but …