Movies

Walt Disney outside the Magic Kingdom with his grandson (Image: Gene Lester/Getty ) There’s trouble at the Mouse House. With streaming subscribers dropping like flies and 7,000 employees due to lose their jobs, executives at Disney are hoping sequels of two of their biggest franchises, Frozen and Toy Story, which …

Captain America: Civil War (2016)Sam Wilson’s Falcon recruits Ant-Man to join Steve Rogers’ team in opposing the Sokovia Accords, which held the Avengers to government scrutiny. Scott becomes Giant-Ant in the epic German airport scene before being captured and imprisoned on the Raft. Captain America later breaks him out of …

Magic Mike is back – but in name only. Throughout the groan-worthy two hours of Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Channing Tatum’s legendary scantily clad dancer (Mike Lane) insists he is “done” with dancing. So when the bafflingly rich Miami socialite Max (Salma Hayek Pinault) comes knocking with an offer to …

Hollywood conservative Tim Allen famously voiced Buzz Lightyear in the four Toy Story movies to date, however, his not being invited to voice the character in the Lightyear movie last year enraged some fans. Marvel’s Chris Evans was cast as the human based on the toy Buzz in Lightyear instead. …

This summer, Harrison Ford returns as his archaeologist adventurer for one last time in the hotly-anticipated Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The 1969 setting has Indy going up against former Nazis during the Space Race in what some fans believe could be a time travel movie. Whatever the case, …

Next week, Marvel Phase 5 kicks off with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Scott Lang and his family will be sucked back into the Quantum Realm once more, where they come face to face with the MCU’s new Thanos-level big bad, Kang the Conqueror. A time travelling despot from the …

Three years ago, Newnight’s Emily Maitlis interviewed Prince Andrew at Buckingham Palace about his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. What was labelled a “car crash” interview with the Duke of York’s bizarre claim that he “didn’t sweat” is now being adapted into a Netflix movie called Scoop. The behind-the-scenes …

Our own King has invited Hollywood royalty to his coronation on Saturday, May 6, after a blossoming new friendship with two senior members of The Firm. At 60, Tom Cruise is enjoying the greatest success of his career, following Top Gun Maverick’s supersonic $1.489billion haul at the global box office …

Sir Sidney Poitier wins Best Actor at the 1964 Oscars Film trailblazer Mr Poitier sadly passed away in January last year, aged 94. A respected humanitarian and diplomat, he became the first black man to win a best actor Oscar for his performance in ‘Lilies of the Field’. Upon his …

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, which aren’t …