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Blue Beetle is undoubtedly one of the best DC superhero films in years – but they don’t have a particularly high bar to clear. Aside from Matt Reeves’ superb standalone The Batman last year, the DC Universe proper has delivered flop after flop, from Dwayne Johnson’s middling vanity project Black …

Ever since Daniel Craig bowed out as 007 in spectacular fashion (and a thousand little pieces) the hunt has been on for his successor. Current names being considered include Aaron Taylor-Johnson, James Norton and fast-rising favourite Paapa Essiedu. But none of these have the favour of the Great British public. …

Last year Benedict Cumberbatch returned to the MCU in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness after his supporting role in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Since then he’s teased there are plans for more Marvel antics he’ll be shooting next year, but what exactly? Doctor Strange 2 concluded with the …

Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been the bookies’ favourite to be cast as the new James Bond for months now. It all began after rumours were reported that he’d impressed Barbara Broccoli at a secret audition. Other A-listers may brush aside such speculation but the 33-year-old has played it incredibly coy during …

Bradley Cooper’s decision to don a large, prosthetic nose to portray Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein has been slammed as “antisemitic”. The trailer for his new film Maestro has ignited debates around ‘Jewface’ – when actors use facial prosthetics to imitate Jewish stereotypes. It will also star Carey Mulligan as Bernstein’s …

Sandra Bullock fans have furiously hit back at trolls who are demanding she be ‘stripped of her Oscar’ amid the controversy surrounding the Tuohy family. The Tuohy family and their relationship with Michael Oher became the inspiration for the life-affirming 2009 drama, The Blind Side. Sandra starred as tough-talking matriarch …

The cast of Back to the Future have reunited once again.  On his Twitter account, Christopher Lloyd, who played Doc Brown, shared an adorable snap shot of him and his former co-stars from the 1985 classic film. In the shot, Michael J. Fox embraces Thomas Wilson, who played the movie’s …

High School Musical fans were taken aback by Troy Bolton (played by Zac Efron) and Gabriella Martinez’s (Vanessa Hudgens) fate as confirmed in the spin-off.  The fourth and final season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series made its way to Disney this week with appearances from some of …

Stephen Fry only filmed for a single day on the set of Red, White and Royal Blue – but he was still treated like royalty. Express Online recently sat down with first-time filmmaker Matthew Lopez about bringing the bestselling novel by Casey McQuiston to screen on Prime Video. Starring Taylor …

If you’ve had enough of fraught romances involving a British prince, an American outsider and the tabloid press, this breezy adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s best-selling novel could sound like a non-starter. But, like all good romantic comedies, Red, White & Royal Blue makes us buy into a fantasy. What if …