Movies

John Wayne made not one, not two, but three Westerns with director Howard Hawks about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws. In between 1959’s Rio Bravo and 1970’s Rio Lobo, the duo shot 1966’s El Dorado, which co-starred Robert Mitchum as the drunken lawman opposite Duke’s gunslinger. Interestingly, Wayne …

Pixar fan Sarah Simpson has crocheted a miniature version of the famous balloon house from Up to decorate a postbox in her hometown. Sarah, who has been compared to Banksy for her elaborate crochet creations, took around a week to create the design. It now adorns a postbox in King’s Hill …

Pierce Brosnan fans can catch a double bill of his James Bond movies this weekend on ITV, starting with The World Is Not Enough on Saturday, followed by Die Another Day on Sunday. The 70-year-old star’s latest film, action-comedy The Out-Laws, also just dropped on Netflix. The actor, of course, …

Elvis died at on August 16, 1977, in the early afternoon. He had been found on the floor at home and rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3.30pm. His body was brought home and the funeral took place on August 18 at 2pm, UP to 80,000 people …

Coral’s John Hill said: “Aaron Taylor-Johnson has refused to rule himself out of the running to replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond. “The British actor continues to top our betting for the iconic role, and with just over 70 per cent of all bets being for the Marvel …

Back in 1973, before he wrote Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton penned and directed Westworld, which has gone to be rebooted as an HBO TV series today. The storyline followed guests visiting an immersive Wild West theme park with lifelike robots who soon begin to malfunction. The King and I star …

British audiences familiar with early morning TV may know Ray Romano as the star of US sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. In his big-hearted and gently amusing directorial debut, Romano plays Leo, a caring, middle-aged Italian-American who works at his father’s small construction company. While his sharp-tongued wife Angela (Laurie Metcalf) …

Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx take a bite out of the mutt movie in a potty-mouthed parody of schmaltzy family favourites A Dog’s Purpose and Homeward Bound. Director Josh Greenbaum uses real canine actors, seamless CGI and clever voice casting to tell the story of Reggie (Ferrell), a cute Border …

Are superhero movies finally losing their grip on the box office? We’ll have a better idea next week when we see how many seats this new DC flick takes from Barbie. But, after failures like The Flash, and recent Ant-Man and Shazam! sequels, it feels like Blue Beetle’s nemesis will …

In the 1952 Oscar-winning classic, considered by director John Ford to be his sexiest movie, John Wayne’s retired boxer Sean Thornton makes a pilgrimage to his home village in 1920s Ireland to claim his family estate. There he meets his match with Maureen O’Hara’s Mary Kate Danaher and her difficult …