Movie History

They’d also a number of Rocky scrabble sequels lined up. Rocky would become scrabble world champion, see his friend Apollo brutally killed in a dangerous scrabble match and ultimately win the cold war with a thrilling use of the word ‘fundament.’ […]

In 1932, Jeffrey the Amazing Goat was just Jeffrey the Goat. He spent his time in a field chewing grass and occasionally bleating. […]

“I guess it was the Dire Straits album Alchemy that really tuned me on to alchemy,” said the actor in a 2005 interview.
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“It was fascinating, Harvey gave Mr Humphries a fantastic sense of repressed Catholic guilt and explosive rage.” […]

From out of the dark steps a black-clad man, the rain beating off his helmet. […]

“We had absolutely no idea what Errol was doing, no idea at all. We didn’t know if he had suffered sort of stroke and was going to bite her, or whether he had merely momentarily lost his balance.” […]

When Tarkovsky learnt of the 15th century religious icon painter who lived a nomadic lifestyle in medieval Russia, he knew it was the perfect subject for a classic Hollywood-style musical – Rublev! […]

She’d won an Oscar for her eponymous turn in Annie Hall playing someone or other. […]

There was no way to simulate a convincing frog attack, and the director was resorted to flinging handfuls of frogs into the faces of the characters to give the effect of a coordinated frog strike. […]

“Yeah, the President was laughing and cheering, and when Megan Fox bent over, he made this guttural grunting sound.” […]

Vin Diesel was nineteen minutes into a speech about family when it became clear there’d been a terrible mistake. […]

“He decided to spend time being an idealistic, hopeful, but ultimately not quite talented enough actor.” […]

“Everyone loved Smokey and the Bandit, so when Burt Reynolds called up offering to be the new Pope. Who were we to turn him down?” […]

However, there are more prosaic theories, such as no one being able to access the studios, because they’d lost the keys. […]