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Not even Henry Cavill and pop superstar Dua Lipa can save Matthew Bourne’s ambitiously subversive new blockbuster, it seems. Then again, despite appearing to be the lead from the posters and trailers, the sneaky marketing people have pulled a fast one, and the Witcher and Superman star is barely in …

Bruce Dern struggled to find acting jobs after co-starring opposite John Wayne in The Cowboys. His troubles began even before filming on the 1972 Western began. Duke had just given an incredibly controversial Playboy interview sharing his views on civil rights and the treatment of Native Americans. In fact, Laura Dern remembers at …

Originality flies the coop in this family-friendly computer-animated adventure from the flock at Illumination, who previously hatched Minions and The Secret Life Of Pets. A baby duckling borrows her wide-eyed cuteness from supervillain Gru’s youngest adopted daughter Agnes in Despicable Me, aerial acrobatics above a fluffy cloud line glide in …

It’s been almost 20 years since the last set of James Bond auditions when Daniel Craig beat Henry Cavill to the 007 role in Casino Royale. With the outgoing star’s No Time To Die hitting cinemas almost two and half years ago, speculation is rife over who his replacement will …

Nothing is black and white in American Fiction. The sympathetic, flawed characters in writer-director Cord Jefferson’s Oscar-nominated study of the creative process are elegantly sketched in shades of grey. That includes Jeffrey Wright’s frustrated college professor Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison, who bristles with indignation at feedback from white liberal publishers that …

Matthew Vaughn has made some fantastic action blockbusters over the years, from Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class to the Kingsman movies. So when the director announced another spy caper starring Henry Cavill – bagging the A-lister before the James Bond producers, as he put it – we were initially very …

Over the last decade, Henry Cavill has won over a legion of fans with his incarnation of the Man of Steel. Sadly the lacklustre DCEU franchise didn’t do him many favours, but at least Zack Snyder’s Justice League shone a spotlight on his much-loved performance. Fan hopes were lifted only …

Aside from the relative success of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Marvel Studios had its toughest year yet in 2023. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels were given green splats on Rotten Tomatoes, while their box office was far from the billion-dollar glory days of the MCU. …

With almost two and a half years having passed since the last James Bond film hit cinemas, fans continue to speculate over who will replace Daniel Craig as 007. The outgoing star exited the franchise explosively at the end of No Time To Die, killing off the character for the …

Throughout the four John Wick movies, Ian McShane’s Winston Scott clearly has a soft spot for the titular assassin. Unlike other disposable hitmen, the New York Continental Hotel boss has backed Keanu Reeves’ character time and again, even when he broke the rules. Following the events of John Wick Chapter …