Ray Winstone couldn't keep a straight face when a high-profile role was first offered his way, but he eventually realised it was no laughing matter.

Sometimes jokes go too far. In 1968, a joke song written by the Small Faces ended up at number two in the UK singles chart, much to the surprise of the band.

As a lifelong cinephile, Alfred Hitchcock was always going to be an influence on Martin Scorsese, with one movie taking top ...

The final years of the 2000s saw culture undergoing yet another metamorphosis. With the indie boom barely hanging on, new rave peaking, metalcore taking the reins from emo, 1980s-inspired electropop ...

In terms of great director-actor combinations, the pairing of Paul Verhoeven and Rutger Hauer often gets overlooked. The Dutch filmmaker cast his fellow countryman in his first major role on the TV ...

Johnny Marr's songs both solo and with The Smiths have taken him all over the world. But this one was about a skyscraper in ...

In a scene that is still as iconic now as it was almost a century ago, Buster Keaton survives a brush with death in 'Steamboat Bill Jr.

Maynard James Keenan described how Nirvana achieved success at a crucial cultural period when listeners had grown tired of "hair bands." ...

Will Smith got incredibly far on his star power without ever really having to test himself as an actor, a ruse that two filmmakers saw right through.

Bruce Springsteen might have been "born to run", but he was certainly not born to go to school. Read more about the time when he was almost expelled.

Nicolas Cage has always existed on his own wavelength, but there was one movie that affected him on a level beyond the ...

John Wayne became synonymous with war films and westerns during his performing career, but the veteran Hollywood actor never actually served in the forces.