Colin Baker played Doctor Who for just two years (Image: BBC) It is September 1986 and actor Colin Baker has been playing Doctor Who for just two years. However, all is not well on Gallifrey or Earth. There is, to put it bluntly, trouble in the Tardis. BBC Controller Michael …
Read More »John Wayne ‘completely exhausted’ on set where director ‘punched’ leading lady | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Ingrid Bergman regretted turning down Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes role | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »John Wayne ‘never forgave’ fellow Western legend for humiliating Alamo snub | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Bang on target – The Killer on Netflix review | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Marvel delays 4 movies as Captain America 4 ‘poor test screening’ means reshoots | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »The Marvels review – ‘Disney+ nuts should get something out of this’ | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Next James Bond odds slashed by 70 per cent on huge star becoming new 007 | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »The Marvels end credits and Loki end tease Deadpool 3 and Avengers Secret Wars | Films | Entertainment
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 …
Read More »Dream Scenario review – ‘A wildly original and genuinely nightmarish comedy’ | Films | Entertainment
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. …
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