Movies

Ingrid Bergman remains best known for Casablanca, from a career that garnered three Oscars and numerous other accolades. The Swedish star enjoyed huge critical and commercial success but later confessed she had felt trapped in roles too often dictated by her beauty and her innate elegance. One film could have …

Over his incredible Hollywood career, John Wayne had many regular collaborators in his movies like Ward Bond, Howard Hawks and John Ford. Duke and these men were part of Tinseltown’s strong conservative circle who were in favour of blacklisting suspected communists and progressive Democrats. One of these Republican close friends …

From this week onwards, I shall never hear How Soon Is Now? without seeing Michael Fassbender shoot a prostitute through the chest with a sniper rifle. It’s far from the only song by the indie icons in director David Fincher’s slick, brutal and utterly brilliant action movie. Fassbender’s nameless hitman …

As the Hollywood strike comes to an end, studios are getting back to work and announcing some inevitable release date delays. Disney’s Marvel Studios will be moving back four of their next five MCU movies. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s Deadpool 3, which is 50 per cent through filming, has …

In 2020, Disney CEO Bob Chapek announced “a strategic reorganisation” to prioritise “streaming services”. Yes, in 2019, Marvel’s Captain Marvel took $1billion at the box office but cinema seats are so last year. So now Disney and Marvel present $260million blockbuster The Marvels. But, if fans want to grasp what’s …

Today the new James Bond reality TV game show 007: Road to a Million lands on Prime, two years after the release of No Time To Die. As members of the public take on Bond-esque challenges around the world in the new series, fans continue to speculate over who the …

Today is double treat day for Marvel fans. Not only do we get a new movie with The Marvels in cinemas today, but also the Loki season 2 finale on Disney+. The conclusions to both have huge moments that will have massive implications for the future of the MCU.  The …

Dream Scenario finds the Oscar winner in an unusually restrained mood, playing a boring sad-sack university professor. Cage’s job is to raise wry smiles and ground an outlandish plot in reality. There’s no shouting or set shaking as in Pig or Mandy, but his understated performance is just as explosive. …

After 118 days, the longest Hollywood actors strike in history has come to an end and filming can resume on some big 2024 movies.  These include Gladiator 2, Beetlejuice 2 and what may be Clint Eastwood’s final movie Juror No 2. This is also the case for Tom Hardy’s Venom …

The Marvels is sure to delight die-hard fans of the interconnected superhero multiverse, but there’s not much to recommend for casual viewers. Marvel Studios’ latest big screen offering picks up decades after 2019’s 90s-set blockbuster Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson as the titular hero, while juggling follow-ups to two Disney+ …