Movies

John Wayne was the undisputed High Sheriff of American Western movies for thirty years. From his breakthrough star-making 1939’s Stagecoach he rode across the silver screen all the way to 1969’s Oscar-winning role in True Grit. The Duke stood for all the classic tropes of the ‘American Way’, profoundly conservative …

In 1958, Elvis Presley was becoming the biggest pop star in the world and was already carving out a second starring role on the big screen. Following Love Me Tender, Loving You and Jailhouse Rock, he was becoming hot property in Hollywood but his pending military service meant he could …

After a record six-year gap following Timothy Dalton’s Licence To Kill, Pierce Brosnan’s GoldenEye – which is on ITV this afternoon – rebooted the James Bond franchise for a post-Cold War world. The 007 movie’s femme fatale was set to be Xenia Onatopp, a Georgian fighter pilot and henchwoman to …

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 …

Joaquin Phoenix reunites with his Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott in their upcoming biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte later this year. The Oscar-winning actor stars opposite Vanessa Kirby as the French Emperor and his Empress, Joséphine. No doubt set for Academy Awards nominations, the historical epic is due to hit cinemas …

Edward Furlong appeared unrecognisable in a rare appearance years after Terminator 2. The former teen star famously played John Connor in James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day alongside Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1991. He then starred in a sequel, the short film T2-3D: Battle Across Time. But now, after …

In this engrossing French drama, writer-director Alice Winocour stages a Bataclan-style terrorist attack in a Paris cafe from the perspective of translator and journalist Mia (an excellent Virginie Efira). She sees the welcoming lights and stops to take shelter from a storm while riding home on her motorcycle. She’s sipping …

He was great in Mad Men but Hollywood doesn’t seem to know what to do with the debonair charms and dry wit of Jon Hamm. So after attempting to relaunch Chevy Chase’s Fletch franchise, he’s back on the small screen with a misfiring black comedy. Managing the two tones involves …

The rain has been chucking it down for weeks but summer got off to a bright start in our cinemas. After the spectacular Mission Impossible 7, the excellent Barbie and the brilliant Oppenheimer, we had two welcome surprises – a decent horror in Talk To Me and a great Ninja …

A full year after filming ended on the summer’s biggest blockbuster, Barbie’s cast and crew are finally able to share what they got up to for months on the Warner Bros lot. One background actress, Jodi Alexander, who appeared as a few different Barbies in the film, gave fans an …