Movies

Wayne was well known as a staunch and uncompromising conservative and during the TV interview, they disagreed on a political issue of the day. Their conversion ended by talking about environmentalism, which the Western legend wasn’t in favour of. It was his belief that if you were an environmentalist, then …

Steven Spielberg’s Oscars contender this year is his most personal project yet. The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical story of his childhood as an aspiring filmmaker through the lens of a fictional family. Nevertheless, Paul Dano and Michelle Williams’ Burt and Mitzi Fabelman were heavily based on his late parents Arnold …

Following 1995’s GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan starred in his second James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies two years later. This time around 007 would team up with Chinese agent Wai Lin, played by Michelle Yeoh who is Oscar-nominated for her performance this year in Everything Everywhere All At Once. The 60-year-old …

John Wayne, the iconic Hollywood star whose films like How the West Was Won and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon can be streamed on BBC iPlayer, was once left so embarrassed by one of his performances that he nearly gave up acting, unearthed accounts show. Nicknamed the Duke, Wayne enjoyed …

The ongoing race to become the next James Bond has continued to thrill 007 fans over the past few years – but it could all be over. Since Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie, No Time To Die, hit cinemas, the Bond odds have been the only signifier of who is …

During filming on Chisum, John introduced Duke to patriotic poetry, which greatly moved Wayne who was a very vocal and proud American. Having not served in World War II but stayed in Hollywood to make movies, Duke always felt the guilt of this on his shoulders and went out of …

Earlier this month, on March 2, 2023, Daniel Craig turned 55-years-old. And while the star has become best known for playing James Bond, he put his 007 tuxedo in the dry cleaners back in 2021 after the release of No Time To Die. Since then, he has tried to avoid …

Adonis Creed fans are ecstatic that Creed 3 hits cinemas today – but it is a bittersweet movie. This is the first time Rocky Balboa has not been a part of the storyline. Sylvester Stallone played the underdog in six films across 30 years before stepping into the Creed franchise …

And my abject fear of unforgivingly lit fitting rooms would be enough to stop me buying a ticket to Becky Hutner’s film about award-winning designer Amy Powney. Still, this engaging documentary reassuringly confirmed most of my half-baked prejudices about the fashion industry. The film follows Powney, creative director of the …

Project Wolf Hunting is a brash, darkly funny and gut-wrenchingly violent B-movie that doesn’t take its foot off your throat for a second. The setting is a 58,000-ton cargo ship travelling between the Philippines and South Korea. For the first half hour, it seems most of the action will involve …