Robert Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley, and the misery of celebrity.

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, cocaine, and the making of The Blues Brothers.

A profile of Martin Short.

He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.

The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

A profile of RZA, hip-hop artist and kung fu film director.

Blockbusters in the age of “corporate irony.”

On the novelist’s experience in movie-making.

The Drugstore Cowboy star candidly discusses the characters who defined her career.

Scientology’s stronghold on Tom Cruise’s dating life.

The elusive director’s early years.

Retro, apocalypticism, and our “culture of disaster.”

A profile of The Wachowskis.

On Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, screenwriters.

A profile of actress Christina Ricci.

A profile of the actress and screenwriter.

The life and films of Werner Herzog.

A self-conscious celebrity profile.

A profile of the Hollywood star-maker behind Vanna White, Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy.

An interview with John Waters.

Real life is seeing and art is looking. If you’re successful, it’s a magic trick: you take one thing, and you put it in here, and it changes in one second, and then you can never look at that thing again the same way. That is what art is to me.

A profile of filmmaker Michael Haneke.

Growing up on B-movies.

The making of Thelma & Louise.

A profile of the hardworking Samuel L. Jackson, whose movies have grossed more than any actor’s ever.