Movies

Today, at 2pm, David Niven will hit BBC 2 screens in the 1946 epic A Matter of Life and Death. 20 years after this movie hit the silver screen, Niven would go on to play James Bond in the 1967 hit Casino Royale. But behind the scenes, he would later …

Today, at 5:20pm, Arnold Schwarzenegger hits Channel 4 screens in the Christmas classic Jingle All The Way. The 1996 movie was one of his first pictures that showed he not only had a powerful side to his acting but also some comedic talent as well. Unfortunately for him, Arnie has …

Later today, at 10:35pm, Captain America: The Winter Soldier will hit BBC One. This is the second solo movie for Chris Evans’ Marvel hero and began the end of SHIELD in the MCU. Steve Rogers’ worst moments came when he was attacked by his former crew in an elevator, led …

By the 1970s, John Wayne was coming towards the end of his career as a Hollywood star. In 1973, aged 65-years-old, he had been living with one lung for the best part of 10 years and was suffering from emphysema on the remaining one. That year he released two Westerns, …

Netflix found itself a hit this month with the release of Wednesday, a spin-off from The Addams Family series. The much-beloved franchise has been hitting TV and cinema screens since the 1950s, and American star Jenna Ortega has become the latest star to play the ghoulishly great Wednesday Addams. But …

Peter O’Toole very nearly didn’t play Lawrence of Arabia. Originally Marlon Brando was wanted by director Sir David Lean and producer Sam Spiegel, with the latter having won Oscars alongside the star for 1954’s On the Waterfront. However, the Hollywood legend turned it down for the shooting in Tahiti with …

During his two decades at Graceland, Elvis Presley would put on a huge private party for his inner circle at the Tennessee mansion. The house would be beautifully decorated with a Christmas tree in almost every room, not to mention the stunning festive lights on the outside that are still …

Horror maestro Guillermo del Toro is now famous enough for his own easily misspelled name to appear alongside Pinocchio’s in the title. And this offbeat stop-motion animation could only have come from the Mexican’s unique imagination. In terms of cutesiness, this one falls somewhere between the other two, being less …

One day, she gets a phone call that sends her into a panic. “Pulling out bodies?” are the only words we hear. A few months later, she is in the grip of a mysterious, memory-sapping illness when Filipino housekeeper Diana (Chai Fonacier) knocks on her door. Assuming she forgot that …

June and Jennifer Gibbons may have experienced racism at their Welsh school but they had a perfectly healthy homelife with loving parents and two well-adjusted older siblings. So 1970s psychologists were baffled by their refusal to speak to anyone but each other and, even then, only when they were in …