Aaron Paul played Rick Meade, Tom Cruise’s brother-in-law, in J.J. Abrams’s Mission: Impossible III (2006), years before Breaking Bad made him a star.

A retrospective on The Butterfly Effect (2004), the time-travel thriller with Ashton Kutcher, Logan Lerman as young Evan, its endings, reception and legacy.

The Truman Show was filmed in Seaside, Florida, on Scenic Highway 30A. See Truman’s house, Modica Market and the other real spots you can still visit.

Vanessa Hudgens as Gabriella Montez in High School Musical 2 (2007): the lifeguard, the walkout song, and what the record-setting sequel meant for her career.

Addison Timlin played Amy Schine, Clive Owen’s diabetic daughter, in Mikael Håfström’s 2005 thriller Derailed. Here is the role, the reception and what came next.

Kate Winslet’s Iris Simpkins in Nancy Meyers’s The Holiday (2006): her friendship with Eli Wallach’s Arthur Abbott, the cottage, and what the role led to.

How Lambert Wilson’s silken, scene-stealing Merovingian became the most quoted new face of The Matrix Reloaded (2003), and what the role did for his career.

How Sandra Bullock built Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), the performance that won her the Best Actress Oscar, and how the role sits in her career today.

Bradley Cooper’s first feature role: Ben, the theater-minded counselor of Camp Firewood in David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer, and what the part led to.