Movies

“I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock ’n’ roll,” booms Little Richard at the beginning of Lisa Cortes’s documentary. Ike Turner, Fats Domino and Chuck Berry would have had reasonable grounds to object to his self-effacing speech at the 1997 American Music Awards. …

Pensioner Harold Fry (Jim Broadbent) is in his South Devon flat, watching the weft of the carpet shift as his wife Maureen (Penelope Wilton) attacks the living room with the Hoover. His trance is broken by the arrival of a handwritten letter carrying a shocking postmark. “Who do we know …

Over the weekend, we reported that the ever-changing Bond odds had pushed fan favourites Henry Cavill and Tom Hardy back as a newcomer to the race took over. That didn’t last long, though, as Hardy, the legendary British actor, has just come back in a big way in an effort …

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is just about to hit cinemas, but James Gunn is keen to dig up some old frustrations about his series. The American director brought the Guardians to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2014, but they were later used in the ensemble movies Avengers Infinity …

The Flash has been one of the most highly-anticipated films of the year for some time. The DC Studios picture has had a number of problems along the way, including delays, reshoots, and issues with its star, Ezra Miller, who was arrested last year in Hawai’i. Despite all of these …

Johnny Depp has not been working in Hollywood for some time. After he was axed from his monumental Pirates of the Caribbean series back in 2018, he spent a lot of time in courtrooms battling his ex-wife, Amber Heard, over abuse and defamation allegations. Now, he is filming Jeanne du …

Spider-Man fans are about to get the opportunity of a lifetime this Autumn, as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is getting the orchestral treatment for the first time in the UK. The movie, which won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2019, is going on tour beginning in October, 2023, …

Steven Spielberg was originally set to direct Indiana Jones 5, but other projects got in the way and so Logan director James Mangold was hired to take on Harrison Ford’s final time in the role. Although the acclaimed filmmaker has stayed on as producer, some fans have been petrified over …

The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise has previously been rife with post-credits scenes. The first film in the franchise went back to Knowhere to see The Collector in his destroyed museum. He was given a sloppy lick from Cosmo the dog before Howard the Duck made a snide comment about …

Today, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, marks the 83rd birthday of the legendary Hollywood star Al Pacino. The actor is best known for playing Michael Corleone in the epic gangster movie The Godfather, as well as the titular anti-hero in Scarface. But in the 1970s he was approached by George Lucas …