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.’
Everyone began singing – “Don’t let her catch you in a warehouse or a wharf, she’s a sexy dancing, sexy dancing, sexy dancing Xenonorph.” […]
Grant is rightly celebrated for roles in classics like An Affair to Remember, His Girl Friday, and To Catch a Thief, but what many people don’t know that he always considered his greatest achievement to be his invention of the Muller Fruit Corner. […]
The gangster rap sequence was hugely unusual for the time as the genre wouldn’t be invented for anther forty years. […]
Spanky tried a number of names – Barry Hotpants, Sexpot McDongle, Willy Banjo, Panty Sexface, Fancy Loveman, Big Balls McGeedy, Rumpy Fandango – before finally settling on Rudolph Valentino.
#MovieStars […]
“Benny Hill was just the sound of New York in the seventies.” […]
“The regular staff were quite surly and wanted paying and time off and the like, so Dad decided to replace them with dogs instead.”
#dogs […]
The script was great, the cast – Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio – was stellar. The problem was that the setting, a provincial branch of the popular underwear and ready-meal store Marks and Spencer.
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“The beauty of it was its simplicity. Just popcorn and coke, blended together. No special equipment. No secret recipe. Just a blender” […]
“Kids were nuts for it, and what would happen is that they’d all come running out of theatres and straight round the corner, only to be really disappointed when there was no tie-fighter wreckage or dead jawas from space battles that they believed had happened last Tuesday. […]
“Three years on that show, you know what an alien looks like, and that was an alien.” […]
He loved singing with The Jesus and Mary Chain, but what he really wanted to do was go to Hollywood and establish himself as the go-to actor for tough but charming police detective roles. […]
Astronaut George Taylor roars the immortal line – ‘Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty cat.’
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Between 1951 and 1954 was one of the strangest times for British film fans, because, by law, all films had to be screened upside down. […]
This ice-cream van isn’t just bringing Zoom lollipops and choc-ices with weird yellow ice-cream inside, but also John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. […]
“I think the problem is that when you get two giants of the screen like Orson Welles and Terry Scott together then they’re always going to butt heads a little, and those two really did.” […]
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