Movies

During his last 15 years, John Wayne suffered from serious health issues. The heavy smoker was diagnosed with lung cancer in the mid-sixties, resulting in having one of his lungs and a couple of ribs removed. Determined to maintain his macho image, Duke often still insisted on doing his own …

Director Sydney Pollack, Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (Image: Getty) But half a century after its release, two fascinating new books expose the nightmare behind the scenes, with Redford desperate to quit the film, Streisand’s skyrocketing diva demands, a jumbled plot, countless delays and rewrites, on-set tensions and an exhausted …

Over the last 60 years, there have been six actors who have officially played James Bond. Unsurprisingly, as Hollywood leading men, they are all pretty dashing. Yet now their handsomeness has been ranked according to the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi, a measurement of physical perfection according to the Ancient …

When Sean Connery quit the James Bond franchise after 1967’s You Only Live Twice, 29-year-old Australian model George Lazenby was cast to replace him. Incredibly he turned down a multi-picture deal after starring in his only movie as Ian Fleming’s spy, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. This was on the …

In the new footage, Kang tells Ant-Man, “This place isn’t what you think. You’re out of your league, Ant-Man.” Sharing a new image, Marvel Studios said: “Check out the new poster and don’t miss the new trailer for Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania tonight in the College Football …

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 …

It’s one of the greatest rom-com moments of all time, complete with the often-quoted line. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray’s bickering and love-hate relationship on screen is part of what makes the movie such an enduringly beloved romantic success. But by now it is also well-known that the two actors started …

John Travolta stars in Pulp Fiction this evening on Channel 4 at 10pm – but long before he became the assassin Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino’s action movie, the American star played Danny Zuko in the 1978 musical Grease. The legendary ’50s movie starred him and the iconic Olivia Newton-John …

If Quentin Tarantino hadn’t become one of Hollywood’s most iconic directors he admits he’d probably have been a film critic. Having made nine of his planned 10 movies, the 59-year-old has turned his hand to writing books. Following the novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the filmmaker has …

Another reliable scooper Daniel RPK shared a rumour late last year that Deadpool 3 will visit the original Fantastic Four played by Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and, yes, Chris Evans. The latter famously went on to play Captain America in the MCU, but that doesn’t mean he can’t …