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Could 2024 finally be the year that Daniel Craig’s James Bond successor is announced? Fans continue to speculate as Kraven the Hunter star Aaron Taylor-Johnson remains the bookies’ favourite with odds of just 15-8. Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: “Plenty have headed the 007 betting over the years but it’s …

It’s been over 25 years since Johnny Depp made his directorial debut The Brave, co-starring Marlon Brando. And now the 60-year-old returns to directing with his biopic of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Al Pacino is producing the film titled Modi and has a supporting role as real-life French art collector …

John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed both of those films, wanted to make it a third time in 1970’s Rio Lobo. When the filmmaker first approached Duke about the …

Back in 1970, Clint Eastwood starred opposite Shirley MacLaine in the Western Two Mules for Sister Sara, which is on Channel 5 today. Elizabeth Taylor had been the first choice, but she’d decided to shoot in Spain with Burton on his latest movie instead. Originally both Eastwood and Two Mules …

Killing Eve star Jodie Comer and Fool Me Once actress Michelle Keegan are in the front running to become the next Bond Girl, according to the bookies. The female lead in James Bond films has been a coveted role in British cinema for decades and fans as eager to know …

Twenty years after it was released, Mean Girls remains iconic and has generated millions of memes. So, it is not surprising that it is once again hitting the big screen. However, rather than an updated remake this is an adaptation of the musical spawned by the original film. The story, …

Third time isn’t a charm for Tina Fey’s barbed comedy. It has been exactly two decades since the original Mean Girls strutted down the corridors of North Shore High School and vowed to make “fetch” happen as a superlative in teen lingo. Aside from acknowledging the impact of social media …

“I don’t like goodbyes,” tearfully observes one of the characters in director Mahalia Belo’s horribly believable survival drama set in the aftermath of a catastrophic storm, which floods vast swathes of the UK and renders cities, including London, uninhabitable. Those farewells are never-ending in The End We Start From, adapted …

The kids are all right, it’s the teachers that require disciplinary measures in Alexander Payne’s eagerly awaited return to the director’s chair. The Holdovers arrives 20 years after the filmmaker and actor Paul Giamatti took a road trip through rolling Californian vineyards in the Oscar-winning comedy drama Sideways. Lightning strikes …

“She went home with a doll to get the sense of… you know, trying to physically make cups of tea when you’re holding something all the time. That’s a key physical thing. “The emotional stuff, she’s got the empathy and she could smell it out herself.” The End We Start …