Movies

Who will be the next James Bond? This is a question fans have been asking since before Daniel Craig announced he’d be back in No Time To Die. It’s now been almost two years since that movie released and we’re still awaiting an official announcement. In the meantime, the bookies’ …

John Wayne’s collaborative partnership with director John Ford is the stuff of Hollywood legend. The pair had regular actors they liked to work with including Ward Bond, whose career with them was almost cut short after enraging the filmmaker on an early movie together. This past week marks the 94th …

Daniel Craig’s James Bond era, the longest in the series’ history from 2006-2021, had four directors across his five 007 movies. GoldenEye’s Martin Campbell rebooted the franchise once again with Casino Royale, followed by Marc Forster’s Quantum of Solace. Meanwhile, after Danny Boyle bowed out of the fifth film finale, …

Hollywood’s crippling strikes are set to really hit home, with studios running out of new films and TV shows by Christmas. One senior Hollywood executive warned of an “absolute collapse” of the industry. Production is at a standstill on virtually all scripted movies, drama series, sitcoms and chat shows. It …

Back in 1966, John Wayne shot The War Wagon with Kirk Douglas, whose liberal political views and hiring of the blacklisted communist Dalton Trumbo as Spartacus’ screenwriter were in stark contrast to Duke’s conservative outlook. The pair avoided talking politics when working, but one day during the Western’s production, Douglas …

In this liberal age, few French dramas arrive in British cinemas with an 18 certificate. It seems it was a long, impressively energetic sex scene featuring German actor Franz Rogowski and Paddington star Ben Whishaw that spurred the British censors into action. Although in no way gratuitous (here the sex …

It feels like there were plenty of cobwebs on the script of this hoary haunted house horror. Its familiar scares revolve around a creepy old pile, bumps in the night and a ghostly girl with a Ring-like fringe. Yet, French director Samuel Bodin manages to build some solid scares out …

Tomorrow is national cinema day with cinemas across the UK offering tickets for a bargain price. If you spend your £3 on Denzel Washington’s third vigilante flick, that’s roughly 5p for each gloriously orchestrated killing. Chuck in 109 minutes of tightly coiled suspense and gorgeous scenery and this could be …

During the Sixties and Seventies, John Wayne was riddled with ill health.  The hard-drinking, chain-smoking star had a cancerous lung removed back in 1964 and would secretly rely on an oxygen mask on movie sets, especially if at high altitudes. By 1973, he was 65 and filming one of his …

It’s been six years since Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (Dead Men Tell No Tales in the US) hit cinemas. Plans for a sixth film starring Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow were halted after the star was dropped from the franchise by Disney following domestic abuse allegations by his ex-wife …