Movie History – A comprehensive history of things that definitely happened.
From the birth of cinema in the ancient Egyptian era to the time Star Wars was set ‘last week, just around the corner.’
The time had come for Rin Tin Tin to stop taking orders from any human. He was going to set up his own studio; a studio entirely for dogs. […]
Marty McFly slumps down to the sidewalk, the horrible realisation swimming in his mind – he had time travelled to the past and become his own father. […]
On his eighteenth birthday, Michael Caine renounced his inheritance and travelled to St Mary-Lee-Bow to officially convert to Cockney. […]
“Those early days was just beautiful, man. Just a handful of us sanding the floor and listening to Cruel, Cruel Summer by Bananarama.
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“We wanted to show identifiable, realistic working class characters just going about their daily lives in space,” said creator Julia Smith in a 1993 Wogan interview. […]
Bond opens her cigarette case, glances up at the other woman and introduces herself. “Bond,” she says, with a small smile, “Nthanda Bond.”
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“After about thirty seconds McCauley speaks – ‘I call Bowser’ – and the two men sit down and play this epic game of Mario Kart.”
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First introduced in the mid-nineties, the ‘Best Boobs’ category was an effort to integrate the popular ‘lad’ culture that was sweeping Great Britain into the fusty world of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. […]
“I mean, I thought Police Academy 2 was a stunning achievement, it had Officer Larvell Jones making those wacky sound effects and Mahoney being a loveable wiseass, it really was exceptional film-making.” […]
“No one had ever dared to wear nothing but yogurt to the Academy Awards before.” […]
“The sheer logistics of staging an explicit and harrowing lesbian sex-act performed for a baying audience of men whilst on ice requires some considerable talent.” […]
When she produced a furious piece of righteous rap about the plight of young black America in the early 1990s, no one quite knew what to make of it. […]
“I’d won an Academy Award and worked with some of the finest people in the business, I wanted to give something back. I wanted to do something for charity.” […]
“In retrospect, having Status Quo soundtrack the movie wasn’t a great idea,” said the artist who would latterly be known as The Artist formally known as Prince during a 1988 Wogan interview. […]
“Everyone, from old people inexplicably going to see Driving Miss Daisy, to teenagers going to snog their way through the latest Michael J Fox extravaganza, watched the movies whilst they bounced up and down.” […]
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