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Jimmy Stewart has a reputation as one of the nicest guys in Hollywood and 1946’s It’s A Wonderful Life has become a timeless classic, rewatched every year. However, the shoot was fraught with tension and “insecurity” all the way from the director Frank Capra, down to the writers and the …

For the first time in his life, Sinatra had lost all the power in a relationship. When Gardner flew to Africa to film Mogambo in 1953, he followed her as a big romantic gesture, but she was clearly unexcited to see him. Lee said: “It just broke his heart.” Yet, …

After Daniel Craig stepped down from the role of James Bond last year, the franchise bosses – Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson – have been on the hunt for his replacement. Marvel fans have been theorising that a superhero actor might be the best bet, but Charlie Cox has …

Love Actually is one of Britain’s favourite Christmas movies of all time. The 2003 romantic-comedy epic has gone down in history as an extremely popular movie full of stars and touching stories – but they were not all happy. One particularly heart-wrenching story involved Mark (played by Andrew Lincoln) who …

After three years away, the world’s greatest detective Benoit Blanc has returned to the big screen to solve another mind-boggling murder. Daniel Craig reprises his role as the hero in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story on Netflix, but, going forward, will fans see more of him? Director Rian Johnson …

While Elf has gone down in history as one of the most influential and much-loved Christmas movies of all time, its creation was bogged down with issues. On top of cold conditions and script rewrites, the actors didn’t get on. And Buddy the Elf himself, Will Ferrell, was at the …

Twenty years later, America’s emaciated former sweetheart was found dead in a bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel. What went so badly wrong? For the curious, there are two ­documentaries. The most recent, 2018’s Whitney, attributed her drug addiction to childhood traumas – sexual abuse by her cousin, and her mother …

Glass Onion is the first half of a two-movie deal involving Netflix, writer-director Rian Johnson and Bond star Daniel Craig. While not quite as clever as the first Knives Out movie from 2019, sharp lines, smart twists and lively performances suggest a bright future for Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc. A group of …

It begins with Don Cheadle’s lecturer delivering a treatise on the cultural importance of the car crash in American cinema. Sadly, this verbose, smug and fatally charmless 80s drama is something of a car crash too. Adam Driver sports a beer gut to play Jack Gladney, an unconvincing middle-aged professor …

007 bosses are currently on the hunt for the next actor destined to take over from Daniel Craig as James Bond. The British star played the suave hero in five films across 15 years – but before he landed the gig, he went up against a major Australian star. Sam …