Adapting another Gillian Flynn novel seemed like a sure bet after the success of Gone Girl, but A24 found out the hard way that some books are harder to adapt.
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Michael Madsen has over 300 credits to his name, but this Kevin Costner-starring Western is one he wished he'd passed on.
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The 1980s was the definitive decade for teen movies, from The Breakfast Club to Footloose. Here are the 15 best '80s teen flicks, ranked.
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Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs almost got banned in the United Kingdom for one particularly gruesome scene. You know the one.
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Steven Spielberg has (unsurprisingly) lots of highly-rated films on IMDb, and his highest-rated movie on the website is (also unsurprisingly) a classic.
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When he was first getting started, Brad Pitt tried to improvise while worrking as an extra during a scene and it didn't go very well.
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Of the two movies about 19th-century magicians to come out in 2006, Christopher Nolan was responsible for directing the (only slightly) more popular one.
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Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile incorporated this particularly famous piece of jewelry into its whodunnit storyline.
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Brad Pitt was in contention for the lead role in what would become a massive franchise, but he ended up making a middling spy movie instead.
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A star-studded cast that includes Sam Neill couldn't stop this film from becoming a flop, which is appropriate since it has more than a whiff of propaganda.
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A Matt Damon film that was voted as one of the Best of the 21st Century is a made-for-TV biopic that you can stream now on HBO Max.
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Plenty of film franchises were born out of the 1980s, from Ghostbusters to Gremlins, but these amazing '80s movies should have gotten sequels too.
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Clint Eastwood once made a Western that some people consider to be connected to one of his greatest characters, but it's more of a spiritual sequel.
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Charles Bronson made a name for himself by starring in this low-budget crime thriller, in which he played the antithesis of his usual taciturn tough-guy roles.
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What's the worst Oscar-winning movie of all time, according to the Internet Movie Database? Here's the answer, and some heinous history to go with it.
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This 1990s Tom Hanks sports dramedy gave rise to a pair of prematurely canceled TV series, one of which was much better received than the other.
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Steven Spielberg gave an actor on Saving Private Ryan a massive ultimatum, one that only the legendary director could actually pull off.
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It's ridiculous to think of anyone passing up on the chance to cast Meryl Streep, but that's exactly what happened with a classic monster movie.
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The first adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express is still hailed as the best, but the author had one major complaint.
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It's hard to imagine anyone other than Christopher Nolan bringing Oppenheimer to life, but two other people nearly sat in the director's chair.
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Robin Williams departed this world far too soon, but he left behind a legacy of hilarious and moving performances, and these are the best of them.
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In 2020, Tom Hanks starred in a Western from director Paul Greengrass that slipped through the cracks for a lot of audiences. Now's your chance to seek it out.
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Kevin Costner was cut out of a major film that could have kickstarted his career even earlier, but that experience led him to star in his breakout picture.
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The Ed Harris-led historical drama The Right Stuff was a hit with critics in the '80s, but its box office performance killed the production company.
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Gene Hackman passed on starring in Seven, but it had nothing to do with him being put-off by the grim subject matter of David Fincher's crime-thriller.
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The late Michael Madsen seared his way into our brains forever in a scene that's gone down in cinematic history. We'll never hear that song the same way again.
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In another universe, Quentin Tarantino reunited with Michael Madsen and John Travolta to make a movie about their characters from two of his other films.
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