Movies

First there was A Quiet Place, where if you made a sound a blind alien would come and eat you. And then there was Netflix’s Bird Box, based on the 2014 novel of the same name, in which if you saw an entity you’d kill yourself. Sandra Bullock’s character had …

It’s been six years since Johnny Depp starred in his fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie as Captain Jack Sparrow. The Hollywood star was looking forward to giving the much-loved character a proper send-off in a sixth outing before being dropped from the project by Disney in 2018. This was …

It’s been over a year and a half since the last 007 movie was released and Daniel Craig blew his take on Ian Fleming’s spy into oblivion. Nevertheless, the credits concluded with a promise that James Bond will indeed return. This will be a total reboot set in another world …

Her long-standing mutual appreciation society with outrageous comic and actor Billy Connolly is well known. The pair famously bonded on the set of Mrs Brown over the mutual love of bawdy jokes. However, he is also one of the few to receive a non-rude gift from her, describing a lovely …

From 1986 to 1991, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, worked on an oral history of his life with the star’s family, friends and closest work colleagues. They amassed 14,000 pages of notes and eventually gave up, unable to manage the sheer volume any more. The screen …

As the race to become the next James Bond continues to rage on, many actors have expressed their interest in taking on the career-defining role. The Bond odds are swamped with well-known Hollywood stars, including Henry Cavill, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Tom Hardy, but British actor Rupert Friend is keen to …

Easy Rider was a pop culture phenomenon and established Peter Fonda (son of legend Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda) and Dennis Hopper as two of the brightest and most significant stars of the era. They fought hard against an entrenched, reactionary Hollywood system to get it made, but …

Tom Cruise is gearing up to start promoting his new thriller, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, but he has hit a snag. The picture, which has been filmed with IMAX cameras, will hit cinemas on July 12 and will have exclusive use of IMAX cinemas throughout the following …

Marvel’s version of Spider-Man was put to a definitive close with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home back in 2021. Since then, it seemed as if Tom Holland’s rendition of the wall-crawler had come to an end. The British actor himself fed into these rumours when he confirmed he …

Harrison Ford may be promoting Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but he always has one eye on where he came from. During a new interview, he talked about the 1997 picture The Devil’s Own, which he worked on with Brad Pitt. As it turns out, the movie was …