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<p>One of the decade’s most enduring underdog stories: Doug E Doug, Malik Yoba, Rawle D Lewis, John Candy and Leon in ‘Cool Runnings’</p>

Flashbacks

Cool Runnings as told by its stars: ‘Jamaicans in tights? For Disney?’

As the celebrated bobsled comedy hits its 30th birthday, Simon Bland speaks to its director and stars about John Candy’s on-set struggles, the controversy over the characters’ Jamaican accents, and the darker, sexier edges of the film’s original script

Tribute

Michael Gambon, the unlikely leading man who almost played Bond

<p>Filmmaker Ken Loach: ‘I like seeing enthusiasm for old things’ </p>

Interview

Ken Loach on retirement and Keir Starmer: ‘It’s good for Labour to be seen to attack me’

<p>‘He’s a classic bloke – doesn’t like to talk about his emotions’: Otto Baxter (centre) with his friends and collaborators Bruce Fletcher (left) and Peter Beard (right)</p>

interview

Meet Otto Baxter, Britain’s first film director with Down syndrome

Inside Film

<p>Ultra violence with a hint of disco-era high camp: Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino in ‘Scarface’ </p>

Features

Cartels! Cocaine! Carnage! How Scarface became a cult hit… by a razor’s edge

It didn’t get a sniff of success on its release, but 40 years on, Brian De Palma’s ultra-violent gangster epic remains a classic. Geoffrey McNab recalls how the on-camera chaos was easily matched by behind-the-scenes insanity

<p>Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross, a grizzled mercenary in ‘Expend4bles’ </p>

Features

The secret life of Sly Stallone, still Hollywood’s top action hero

He’s the sensitive Edgar Allan Poe-loving loner who once turned up at Cannes on top of a military tank. As a testosterone-tinged Netflix show on the actor airs, Geoffrey Macnab looks back on his rip-roaring life and career