World’s Strangest

Blockbuster movies are often released in several nations at once, and we are used to selecting from several languages on DVDs by now. How much work goes into making other languages work in film? Slate explains how they do it. The foreign actors’ voices have to match the age, texture, and comedic sense of the original. [...]

A star actor’s final performance should be something memorable, but that doesn’t happen often. In many cases, the actor probably didn’t know it would be their final performance. For others, their career was already fading, or maybe old age limited their options. Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks: how many of these final performances can [...]

Every actor may dream of winning an Oscar, but it’s safe to say not quite as many aspire to someday portray an action figure or video game character on the silver screen. This doesn’t mean that only hacks end up playing He-Man, though. Quite a few great actors have lent their faces or voices to [...]

Actor Patrick Stewart has reported seeing a ghost in one of Britain’s most haunted theatres during a performance of Waiting for Godot with Sir Ian…