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Henry Selick reflects on James and the Giant Peach at 30

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“Its legacy means something different” V For Vendetta at 20

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‘We put a stink bomb in Stephen Fry’s shoe’: Vic and Bob on the inspired idiocy of Shooting Stars | Culture | The Guardian

Kiefer Sutherland and Rob Reiner: how we made Stand By Me

‘Ingrained in my psyche’: why Gremlins 2: The New Batch is my feelgood movie

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‘It was the Nasa of puppetry’: how we made 1990 kids movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ at 40: Tim Burton and More on Paul Reubens, Ditched Sequels, and Creating a Pop Culture Classic

‘I went vegan on the second day of filming’: James Cromwell on making Babe, the talking pig classic

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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on the US Office at 20

Richard Linklater on Before Sunrise's enduring legacy

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‘John Wick’ Turns 10: Keanu Reeves and Filmmakers on Tolkien’s Influence, Family Walkouts, and Why the Dog Had to Die

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‘We wrote “Suit you, sir!” for Harry Enfield – he didn’t like it’: an oral history of The Fast Show

‘Shawshank’s’ ‘River of S**t’ Was Full of Actual Poop

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‘The NeverEnding Story’ Star Noah Hathaway on the Dangerous ’80s Shoot That Almost Killed Him

Revealed: Brendan Fraser—Not Tom Cruise—Was Always Top Pick for ‘The Mummy’

‘Nick Offerman and I made out every year for the blooper reel’: Parks and Rec at 15

John Carpenter on horror classic The Thing: ‘It was an enormous failure and I got fired’

Julia Donaldson: ‘I give parents permission to lose my books behind a radiator’

20 Years Later, We’re Still Shocked ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ Was on TV

The Butterfly Effect: Making cinema’s most disturbing time travel movie

The Office: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant look back at Christmas Specials

‘The helmet made my hair fall out’: Jeff Bridges on making cult sci-fi film Tron

The Problematic, Jizz-Soaked Legacy of ‘There’s Something About Mary’

Cool Runnings as told by its stars: ‘They wanted us to sound like Sebastian the Crab’

Sofia Coppola on Lost in Translation at 15

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The Big Lebowski at 25: How embracing ‘Dudeism’ can lead to a happier life

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