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Every Hollywood studio passed on 'Bull Durham' twice. How it got made anyway

There's a temptation when speaking to directors of classic films to ask whether their career-defining movie could get a studio's green light today. The glossed-over reality, often, is that those pictures barely got made, even at the time.

Los Angeles Times

‘I’ve done a bit of escaping myself’ – an ex-prisoner picks the best jail dramas

From Time to Screw to Scum and now Black Bird, can drama ever capture the brutal reality of life inside? A former inmate reveals how they stack up against his own spells in the slammer

The Guardian - UK

‘The Cruise mythology’: Why Top Gun’s star is ‘action fit’ compared to original co-stars

Why Top Gun mega star Tom Cruise looks action fit compared to his original co-stars, and why only one was invited to return for the blockbuster sequel.

The New Daily

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‘The enemy is the audience’: Robert Altman’s The Player at 30

The director’s razor-sharp Hollywood satire offered up a horribly prescient look at an industry turning away from creativity and toward commercialism

The Guardian - US

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