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100 years on, FW Murnau's Dracula rip-off still has the power to chill. But thanks to Bram Stoker's widow, it was nearly lost forever

The Master of Suspense liked to say he made his first film in 1923, but, in fact, there was an aborted debut a year earlier

Vikings creator Michael Hirst on historical accuracy, rib-snapping torture scenes and why he'll never watch Game of Thrones

Filming his 20-years-in-the-making action masterpiece almost drove director George Miller crazy. But it turned his two stars into monsters

It’s thanks to Mario Puzo’s novel, based on his turbulent youth, that the great Coppola film is a masterpiece of tension and grit

Capturing the promise of the Bill Clinton era, the romcom perfectly balanced idealism and satire – but Warren Beatty didn't get the joke

It was a critical bomb and wrecked the Ghostbusters legacy for decades. But actually the sequel is thunderously fun – and all in the detail

From debunking myth to revealing the perfect pie-in-the-face recipe, James Curtis’s biography is sterling tribute to a cinema legend

How Lord Mountbatten, the German government and a battle-hardened crew of Hollywood veterans fought to make the definitive account of D-Day

Disney’s dramatisation of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex-tape scandal seems stranger than fiction – yet its weirdest scenes hold up