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Tabloid scandals, a feud with Bette Davies, nuclear fallout… The Oscar-winner once considered for 007 was no stranger to danger

The children’s classic criticised for its ‘horrendous stereotypes’ was nonetheless made into a film. Then the real trouble began

At his peak, Mickey Rooney was ‘catnip’ to women and epitomised Hollywood optimism. Which made his decline all the more heartbreaking

Reports of cursed horror sets are usually just good marketing. But the string of grisly events surrounding 1976’s Omen are truly haunting

The hit comedy began with a white nincompoop being told he’s adopted by his black family – and got more idiotic from there. How was it made?

Long before its stars’ latest war of words, the 2016 box office bomb united northerners, Trump supporters and audiences in revulsion

Aloha – a 2015 Hawaiian romance starring the Oscar hopefuls – should have been a sunny crowd-pleaser. Instead it insulted an entire race

Bob Block's 1970s comedy – now on Britbox – mined laughs from undead characters with unbearably bleak backstories. Was it too good for kids?

The Kingsman and Kick-Ass director has a talent for adolescent outrage and action. But will his $200 million Argylle flop make him grow up?

Before Masters of the Air, Gen Z’s James Dean wore elf ears in the Tolkien-lite TV drama The Shannara Chronicles. Is it worth a second look?