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The actress still turns heads at 85. Her spectacular body has sometimes threatened to eclipse her equally spectacular body of work. Jane Fonda was a major pin-up in the 1960s thanks to films like Barbarella and Cat Ballou, went into the 1970s as a thrillingly subversive Hollywood sex symbol in …

After starring in five James Bond movies, Sean Connery quit the role that had defined his Hollywood career. When shooting 1967’s You Only Live Twice, the 007 actor was far from happy. The Scottish legend became bored with the role, especially due to what he saw as a lack of …

Just two years earlier, in 1956, Elvis had stormed the music charts and the big screen in a spectacular double-whammy. His debut single, Heartbreak Hotel, hit the top spot on the charts and was swiftly followed that year by his first movie, Love Me Tender. Three more Hollywood musicals followed, …

Brian was sure that Freddie didn’t just enjoy the humour and the tribute, he also knew it was a kind of rebirth for the band in America. He added: “(Freddie) had been known to say, ‘Look, you know, I suppose I have to die before we get America back.'” Brian …

Burt Reynolds was enjoying a career renaissance when he passed away in 2018. The actor, who was born on this day in 1936, had starred that year in The Last Movie Star and been cast in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. In fact, the last thing he …

Mark Wahlberg hits Channel 4 screens tonight at 9pm in Infinite, but long before he was a renowned Hollywood star, he was a rapper. He performed in the group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch and even earned himself a platinum-selling album. But this meant he was pitted against one …

Luther: The Fallen Sun is the latest (and perhaps last?) adventure for the no-nonsense London detective, played by Idris Elba. This time around, though, he has a bigger budget and two hours of screen time to take down his homicidal nemesis. Netflix just released the first trailer for the movie …

This topical ensemble drama didn’t get a lot of love at the US box office but filmmaker Sarah Polley must have taken solace from the Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. As in Miriam Toews’ acclaimed 2018 novel, her film is set in an unnamed religious community …

“Not everything’s political,” sighs Jean to her girlfriend in this touching and wonderfully acted drama. As we’re in Thatcher’s Britain during the fevered days of the Clause 28 protests, we know these words will come back to haunt this sensitive young woman. Jean (Rosy McEwen) is a PE teacher at …

The billion-dollar Fast and Furious franchise has a two-part finale, with the first getting a brand-new trailer today. Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto has some serious choices to make as no doubt not every member of the family is going to make it out of these last two movies alive. Joining …