Michael Jackson may have been best known for his incredible musical talent, but he also took a hand to acting in projects like 1978’s The Wiz. But on top of this did you know he was almost cast in Star Wars? George Lucas seriously considered The King of Pop for …
Read More »Elvis movie deleted scene from 4 hour version released by Baz Luhrmann | Films | Entertainment
Last Sunday, Austin Butler was the surprise winner of BAFTA’s Best Actor award after his sensational performance as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s lavish biopic. The 2 hours and 39 minute Elvis movie crams in America through the 50s, 60s and 70s, with a lot of footage having to be …
Read More »Peter Jackson speaks out on newly announced Lord of the Rings movies | Films | Entertainment
Amazon may have purchased the television rights for The Lord of the Rings, with the first of five seasons of The Rings of Power having debuted on Prime Video last September. However, Middle-earth Enterprises, which owns a vast IP catalogue and worldwide rights to The Lord of The Rings and …
Read More »Kang theory: T’Challa’s son is the next Thanos-level threat | Films | Entertainment
WARNING: This article contains FULL spoilers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Last year the Disney Plus TV series Loki introduced He Who Remains – the first on-screen appearance of Kang. This wasn’t the mighty warrior fans will come to know, however. He was simply …
Read More »Scream 6 cast: From Jenna Ortega to Courteney Cox – Where you’ve seen the actors before | Films | Entertainment
Scream 6 is taking the series – and Ghostface – to new heights. This time around, the mysterious murderer is hitting New York City to finish what he started, and to kill off those who got away from him in 2022’s Scream (5). But who is in the cast this …
Read More »Cat Stevens shares cover of George Harrison’s Here Comes the Sun | Films | Entertainment
Stevens wrote: “George Harrison was beginning to explore Eastern mysticism around the time I was hospitalised with TB, in 1968. Lying in bed, I had a lot of time on my hands and ended up reading a Buddhist book called The Secret Path. That was the beginning of my own …
Read More »Joyland review: A delicate and beautifully observed human drama | Films | Entertainment
Softly spoken unemployed man Haider (Ali Junejo) breaks with religious traditions and cultural gender norms after he lands a job as a backing dancer to transgender theatre star Biba (Alina Khan). While Joyland is considered wildly provocative in Sadiq’s home nation (it is still banned in some regions), Western audiences …
Read More »Cocaine Bear review: Elizabeth Banks’s retelling of a true story falls short | Films | Entertainment
I can’t remember a thing about the plot but I do recall a great horse-based chase scene involving Kristen Stewart in a pink jockey outfit. Four years after it flopped at the box office, the actress-turned-writer-director is back with an even riskier proposition – a horror comedy. Mixing gore and laughs …
Read More »What’s Love Got to Do with It? review: An inclusive and engaging romcom | Films | Entertainment
The Working Title logo signals that this is another frothy British rom-com from the Four Weddings template. But, here, Khan (ex-wife of Pakistan’s former PM Imran) is trying to spice it up with eastern flavours. Lily James is “award-winning documentary filmmaker” Zoe – a Bridget Jones-type who lives on a …
Read More »Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli – who are the producers behind James Bond? | Films | Entertainment
Last year marked six decades of the James Bond franchise, created by British author Ian Fleming, who wrote a series of spy novels featuring the suave character of James Bond, also known as Agent 007. Fleming’s first Bond novel, Casino Royale, was written during the author’s time in Jamaica and …
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