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 …
Read More »Shotgun Wedding review: A romantic comedy, albeit with a queasily high body count | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »The Fabelmans – The latest epic from Steven Spielberg | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Unwelcome review: Straw Dogs meets Gremlins meets A Place In The Sun in Irish folk horror | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Plane review: Tense, thrilling and reassuringly preposterous | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Shazam 2 Fury of the Gods trailer – Helen Mirren stars as DC villain | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Pierce Brosnan’s 7 years delayed box office bomb gets 3 Razzie nods | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Quentin Tarantino slams Indiana Jones film as worse than Crystal Skull | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »John Wayne’s incredibly emotional moment on Chisum set | Films | Entertainment
During filming on Chisum, John introduced Duke to patriotic poetry, which greatly moved Wayne who was a very vocal and proud American. Having not served in World War II but stayed in Hollywood to make movies, Duke always felt the guilt of this on his shoulders and went out of …
Read More »The Breakfast Club’s sixth member | Films | Entertainment
The Breakfast Club has always had a profound place in my life – as it did to a lot of people growing up. Over the years as an angsty teen, I found myself connecting with each of the five members of Shermer High School in different ways at different points. …
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