How Gaby Hoffman, who had roles in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck and Sleepless in Seattle, survived child stardom.

On set in Mexico with the Duke.

A Southland Tales fanboy goes down the rabbit hole with the movie’s director.

On film comedy’s silent beginnings.

Inside Brigham Young University’s successful animation program.

“The mythical image of Malick that has been built up over the last 30-odd years is, in essence, a creation of the same media corps with whom the filmmaker himself has continually chosen not to engage.”

On dissident filmmakers in Syria.

A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.

An interview with a blotto Lee Marvin.

Two decades later, unpacking a historic bust.

“Ebert: Sometimes we do really dislike each other.

Siskel: And sometimes we don’t.”

“The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I found Roger Ebert’s email and asked him a question.”

An oral history of Siskel and Ebert.

On Aint It Cool News’ Harry Knowles, who built an influential empire on insider movie news while wheelchair-bound and at one point weighing over 500 pounds, then lost it all.

On reading and writing fan fiction.

Welcome to World of Wonder, the Hollywood production company that celebrates “outsiders, 16th-minute celebrities, conspiracy theorists, penis puppeteers, dictators, street hustlers, porn stars, hackers, homicidal club kids, gender deviants, furries, plushies, and Tori Spelling.”

France, wealth and the saga of tax exile Gérard Depardieu.

The making of Pulp Fiction.

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s thrilling, scary, inept performance on German television.

On CEO Reed Hastings and the future of Netflix.

On the production team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who defined the’90s at the box office with films like Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop, then struggled amidst Simpson’s hedonistic excess and the failure of Days of Thunder.

A profile of 23-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio (and his rowdy crew).

How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974.

A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.

Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.