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Boasting two committed performances, this nicely shot, issue-based Brit flick clearly owes a debt to Ken Loach. But something is badly off with Jane Gull’s melodramatic script. Loach’s best films (Kes and I, Daniel Blake) make a case for social change by making us empathise with individuals suffering under an …

This handsome period drama tells the fascinating and little-known true story of Joseph Bologne, one of the 18th century’s only classical composers of colour. Kelvin Harrison Jr is so good in the lead role, you wish he’d been handed a better script. This is an unusual man living in a …

Home Alone is arguably one of the best-loved and best-known Christmas movies of all time, and this year fans of the Macaulay Culkin movie will be able to see it with a live orchestra for the first time. Home Alone in Concert is hitting arenas around the UK this December …

It’s been almost a decade since The Expendables 3 and now Sylvester Stallone’s Barney Ross is back with a new ragtag team of elite mercenaries. Expendables 4 aka Expend4bles shows off a ton of explosive action in the first trailer. The new blockbuster’s synopsis reads: “A new generation of stars …

After a decade of ear-shattering, headache-inducing, critic-riling hits, director Michael Bay’s Transformers series finally ran out of gas with 2017’s The Last Knight. But robot/car toys can’t be expected to sell themselves. So Hasbro is targeting a new generation’s pocket money with a rebooted series. Picking up the alternate timeline …

Dean Martin and Elvis Presley were singing and acting contemporaries during the mid-20th century. And one day during the 1960s, the two stars came across each other at a film studio, where the crooner was being visited by his daughter. Deana Martin, who followed in her father’s footsteps as a …

Johnny Depp’s future in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise has been uncertain over the last few years. The star was dropped from a sixth outing by Disney, following his ex-wife Amber Heard’s Washington Post op-ed featuring claims of domestic abuse. But now he has won his defamation case …

It’s been over a year since Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh released his What Is a Woman? documentary on the conservative streaming platform. Just last week the outlet launched the controversial documentary on gender and transgender issues via Twitter, despite being asked by the platform to remove scenes involving “misgendering”. Daily …

Culpa Mia star Nicole Wallace revealed she filmed her first kiss with co-star Gabriel Guevara several times over to get it perfect. Based on a trilogy of Spanish novels by Mercedes Ron, the series is already a hit on TikTok and is finally coming to the screen this week on …

Sylvester Stallone is a proud actor, and has earned his stripes over the years – but he isn’t perfect. Despite having been acting professionally for 20 years at that point, when Stallone began working on Rambo III in 1988, one of the scenes got the better of him. According to …