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Valerie never thought she would become an actress (Image: Steve Bainbridge) There were two movie franchises guaranteed to have Britons glued to the telly in the 1970s: James Bond and Carry On. And whilst they entertained the nation in distinctly different ways, there was one actress who, uniquely, brought her …

Tom Holland is the current actor embodying the role of Spider-Man for the Marvel Cinematic Universe – but he was recently joined by some old faces. In No Way Home, he teamed up with previous cinematic wall crawlers Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire to battle the forces of evil spanning …

James Bond fans sadly witnessed the final Daniel Craig 007 adventure back in 2021 with the release of No Time To Die. Since then, the hunt has been on for his replacement. And while the Bond bosses have revealed they’ll the next Bond in the coming years, the Bond odds …

Jennifer Lopez is Darcy, a multimillionaire’s daughter about to tie the knot with bland baseball star Tom (Josh Duhamel). In a reversal of gender norms, it’s the groomzilla who dreamed of the big, glitzy ceremony on the tropical island. Simple girl Darcy just wanted to quietly elope before settling down …

This largely autobiographical and wonderfully empathetic film begins (where else?) at the movies. It’s 1952 and pianist Mitzi (Michelle Williams) and computer engineer Burt (Paul Dano) are taking their nervous six-year-old son Sammy (Mateo Zoryan Francis-Deford and later Gabriel LaBelle) to the cinema to watch his first film. Spielberg’s alter …

Expectant mum Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and partner Jamie (Douglas Booth) think they’ve found the perfect getaway from their violent London estate when they are bequeathed a cottage in rural Ireland. But the run-down gaff comes with a catch. Local folklore dictates that the owners deliver a daily offering to the …

Taking a break from the Has Fallen series and freed from awkward US accent obligations, Gerard Butler takes flight as a super-tough pilot who crash-lands on a Filipino island overrun by gun-toting rebels. Former RAF man Brodie Torrance (Butler) is a commercial flyer who was sidelined by the military for …

Zachary Levi is back as DC Comics superhero Shazam, in an action-packed sequel co-starring West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler, Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren as the daughters of Atlas. The synopsis reads: “When Billy Batson and his foster siblings, who transform into superheroes by saying “Shazam!”, are forced to get …

Alongside this week’s Oscars nominations are those of the worst film awards, the Razzies aka the Golden Raspberries. The likes of Ana de Armas’ Blonde and Jared Leto’s Morbius have received several nominations a piece. Meanwhile, the ceremony have decided to withdraw 12-year-old Firestarter actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong’s nod after …

Speaking with The Sun Sentinal, Spielberg said of the second movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: “I wasn’t happy with Temple of Doom at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered Poltergeist. There’s not an ounce of my own personal feeling …