Yahoo Home Ben Falk is a freelance writer for Yahoo Entertainment UK. He started out writing for Empire and has since authored the definitive biography of Robert Downey Jr as well as setting up Press Association's Hollywood bureau. Highlights of his professional career include getting recognised by Naomi Watts, almost spilling a drink on Natalie Portman and nearly getting punched by Mickey Rourke.
Yahoo Movies UKSpeed is Expensive: The motorcycling pioneer who changed the world and died in poverty
Stories about slightly odd iconoclasts make for great documentary fodder and that is true of Philip Vincent, the iconic bike designer and manufacturer behind Vincent Motorcycles.
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Underworld at 20: It began as 'Blade for werewolves' but evolved into an unlikely franchise
The movie that put Kate Beckinsale on the map is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
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The X-Files: The truth about its greatness was there right from the pilot episode
10 September sees three decades to the day since the first episode of the long-running sci-fi show was broadcast. We take a look back at its impact.
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Blade at 25: How they made the superhero classic and that crazy blood rave scene
Blade was originally intended to be a small-budget, gritty little superhero movie. Producer Peter Frankfurt and others explain how it changed into a smash hit.
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The Room: Is it still the worst movie ever made?
On 27 June, 2003, The Room premiered in Los Angeles and the legend of the "Citizen Kane of bad movies" was born.
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Superman III producers debunk trivia about Christopher Reeve's superhero sequel
On the 40th anniversary of Superman III, we spoke to two of its producers to bust some myths about the superhero sequel
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Psycho II writer looks back at upsetting the original author and tensions on set
Emerging 23 years after the iconic original, 1983's Psycho II has been mostly forgotten, until recently.
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Cliffhanger: How cinema's most expensive aerial stunt was made
1993's Cliffhanger - 30 years old this week - features the most expensive aerial stunt committed to film.
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Return of the Jedi production manager spills the beans on unruly Ewoks, Leia costume worries and more
As Star Wars: Return of the Jedi turns 40, the film’s production manager Robert Latham Brown shares behind-the-scenes secrets.
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Godzilla 1998: The monster-sized struggle to remake Japan's Kaiju in America
Godzilla was a huge in Japan - literally - but filmmakers faced a gigantic battle to make a US-language version.
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Why did Harry Potter never win any Oscars?
Eight movies, twelve nominations, billions at the box office, but no Oscar wins for the Harry Potter films. What gives?
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Indecent Proposal author looks back on the changes Hollywood made to the book
Jack Engelhard’s 1988 bestseller was the basis for the classic romantic dilemma, but it’s very different from the movie.
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Wild Things: Why this steamy 1998 film is an underrated noir classic
Wild Things is good. Very good. Rewatching it only calcified a belief that for what it is intended to be – a postmodern film noir with the sexiness you can show in 1998 versus 1948 – it’s nearly perfect.
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Falling Down: The Michael Douglas thriller that could never be made today
The 1993 movie about a man at the end of his tether caused a stir when it came out. But how does it hold up three decades later?
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Francis Ford Coppola: A history of his crazy, troubled movie productions
The news that Francis Ford Coppola has run into production issues on his latest epic, Megalopolis, shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
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Thomas Brodie-Sangster: What the kid from Love Actually did next
From the Richard Curtis romcom to The Maze Runner, the former child star spills the beans.
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Cary Elwes on Bram Stoker’s Dracula at 30: ‘Gary Oldman spent most of the time sleeping in a coffin’
The vampire epic starring Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder is being re-released in cinemas in 4K.
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Jan de Bont interview: The man who shot the Nineties from 'Flatliners' to 'Twister'
We speak to the cinematographer-turned-director who was part of the some of the most iconic movies of the Nineties.
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Why are there no female Minions?
Originally conceived as robots, the banana-hued critters have always distinctly male, but have you ever wondered why?