Movies

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 …

The first of three Marvel movies to release in 2023 hits cinemas next week, in a blockbuster kicking off the MCU’s Phase 5. The Multiverse Saga’s Thanos-level villain Kang the Conqueror debuts in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and critics can’t get enough of his performance. Check out the first …

Last month it was announced that Michael Jackson will be getting his very own biopic in the next couple of years. The as-of-yet untitled picture will star the King of Pop’s real-life nephew, Jaafar Jackson, playing the singer throughout his life – but people are already calling out the movie for …

Marvel fans are eagerly awaiting the release of the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 5: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. This picture has promised to be an exciting affair, as it reintroduces timelord-esque supervillain Kang the Conquerer as its main antagonist. But Paul Rudd has recently explained …

BBC hit Happy Valley finally comes to an end this evening, bringing a close to the story of Tommy Lee Royce – beautifully played by James Norton. But what is next for the British heartthrob? He has previously been eyed for the role of James Bond, and since Daniel Craig …

This evening, Tom Hardy stars in Christopher Nolan’s wartime epic Dunkirk at 10pm on BBC Two. While he plays the spy-esque pilot in the historical-fiction movie, he has often been looked at as the next potential James Bond star. After Daniel Craig stepped down from the series following No Time …

While Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was a powerful experience for the Marvel Cinematic Universe after the real-life death of Chadwick Boseman, it also introduced a major player in the series’ future. Riri Williams launched onto the screen as the next Iron Man character, Ironheart. After the death of Robert Downey …

Back in 1959, John Wayne made a patriotic return to Westerns in Rio Bravo. Following John Ford’s The Searchers, Duke had made an effort to move away from the genre, however, the films he made afterwards weren’t particularly well received. Heading back to the Wild West with director Howard Hawks, …