Movies

Moana fans will soon be transported back to the fictional island of Motunui with the surprise announcement of the animated sequel. Although the movie was originally expected to be released on Disney+ as a series, CEO Bob Iger confirmed the animated hit would premiere on the big screens as a …

It’s been seven years since Johnny Depp last starred as Captain Jack Sparrow in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. After the fifth outing, Pirates 6 was in the works with the actor planning on giving a fond farewell to his much-loved swashbuckler. However, this was thrown in Davy Jones’ …

By the 1970s, John Wayne was coming towards the end of his career as a Hollywood star. In 1973, aged 65-years-old, he had been living with one lung for the best part of 10 years and was suffering from emphysema on the remaining one. That year he released two Westerns, …

Disney boss Bob Iger held a Disney shareholders meeting this week following a disappointing year at the box office for the House of Mouse last year with films like The Marvels and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny flopping. It seems the new strategy for the studio is to …

Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow is very much the face of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and making an adventure without his iconic character would be a huge gamble for Disney. The 60-year-old star was originally set to return in Pirates 6 before being dropped by the studio after his …

It’s the only MCU movie to release this year and Marvel fans are getting very excited for the return of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in Deadpool 3. In the way that Spider-Man No Way Home brought back Sony characters, Ryan Reynolds’ latest Wade Wilson adventure is rumoured to be doing the …

Following the success of husband and wife team John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s A Quiet Place and its follow-up comes a prequel set on the day the aliens invaded. Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou star in A Quiet Place: Part One as the blind but sound-sensitive …

Back in 2009, James Cameron delivered his motion-capture epic Avatar, which went on to become the highest-grossing movie of all time with over $2.9 billion made worldwide. It took 13 years, but the first of four planned sequels arrived with Avatar: The Way of Water in 2022, becoming the third …

John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on my classic Westerns but the one that made Duke a star was 1939’s Stagecoach. The 1880-set story followed a group of strangers riding through dangerous Apache territory, in a movie Orson Welles believed to be textbook filmmaking. In fact, he watched it over …

A movie adaptation of Prince Andrew’s “car crash” interview on his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is set for Netflix later this year. Scoop stars Gillian Anderson as former Newsnight interviewer Emily Maitlis, opposite Rufus Sewell as the Duke of York. The upcoming film, which released uncanny first-look …