Category: Movies

Maika Monroe stars as the paranoid Julia in Watcher, now available on Netflix (Image: Universal Pictures/Focus Features) The dwindling daylight, chillier nights and Mariah Carey’s increasing warmth can only signify one thing: Halloween is just around the corner. As we plunge into October and our social media feeds are inundated with targeted ads for enormous spooky inflatables, highly combustible fancy dress outfits and budget-friendly haunt experiences, it’s understandable if you’re considering a cosy night in with some horror films this year. For anyone with a Netflix subscription, navigating the horror section can be quite daunting. Cross-referencing each title with its ... Read more

Following 1995’s GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan starred in his second James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies two years later. This time around 007 would team up with Chinese agent Wai Lin, played by Michelle Yeoh, who was the first Asian to win the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once last year. The 62-year-old Malaysian actress has gone on to star in some big Western movies, although right after playing a Bond girl it was really difficult for her. Speaking previously with PEOPLE, Yeoh said: “The first movie I did after I came to America was Tomorrow Never Dies with ... Read more

He may be approaching 100, but Clint Eastwood shows little sign of slowing down in his filmmaking. The 94-year-old legend’s latest directorial effort is a thriller from Warner Bros called Juror No 2. The movie follows a juror in a high-profile murder trial who realises he actually committed the murder. Alongside the cinematic release date announcement today, the studio has released a rare new photo of Eastwood with a beard, working on set with one of his stars, Nicholas Hoult. Alongside Hoult, the new film co-stars Toni Collette, Kiefer Sutherland and JK Simmons. According to Variety’s insiders, Warner Bros is ... Read more

It was 36 years in the making, but the follow-up to 1986’s Top Gun finally hit the big screen in 2022. Legacy sequels can be a huge risk decades later, but Tom Cruise’s Top Gun Maverick turned out to be a monumental hit with both the critics and the box office. Tony Scott’s original action film is an Eighties classic but its follow-up is one of those rare occasions when the second outing is even better. The Oscar-winning blockbuster sequel features scenes shot inside actual fighter jets flown by the star, has 96 per cent positive on Rotten Tomatoes and ... Read more

The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history resulting in the deaths of millions. Hundreds of movies focused on different aspects of World War I have been made over the last century. And film fan database IMDb has ranked the very best, but Lawrence of Arabia missed out on No 1 to another classic. Check out the full Top 10 list below, which features two adaptations of the same novel. 10. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) The third adaptation of the 1929 anti-war novel follows the life of an idealistic young German soldier. ... Read more

Having bowed out as Wolverine in Logan after nine X-Men movies, it was a huge decision for Hugh Jackman to return as his Marvel superhero. And yet the gamble paid off with Deadpool and Wolverine crossing $1 billion at the global box office; destined to now top Joker as the highest-grossing R-rated (15 in the UK) movie of all time. Rumours abound that both Ryan Reynolds and Jackman’s characters will have roles in Avengers Doomsday and Avengers Secret Wars opposite Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom. After all, the latter is set to be a multiverse crossover of epic Avengers Endgame ... Read more

Aside from being the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley was also the Hollywood star of 31 feature films. Sadly many of them were romantic comedies that weren’t of the highest quality, but the King did make several that are well-loved by fans and considered classics to this day. Film fan database IMDb has rated the Top 10 and the King’s personal favourite turns out to be No 1. Check out the full list below which doesn’t include the two concert documentary films he made in the 1970s, just the scripted movies. Source link

Back in 1963, John Wayne starred in the Western comedy McLintock!, which is loosely based on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Duke played an ageing rancher called George Washington McLintock, a wealthy self-made man facing several issues. High-ranking government officials, his own sons and local Native Americans all want a piece of his huge farmstead. Meanwhile, his wife (played by regular collaborator Maureen O’Hara) who separated from him two years prior, is back on the scene demanding custody of their daughter. A film of its time, McLintock! famously has a scene, as captured on its poster, of Wayne’s ... Read more

John Wayne’s Rio Bravo remake El Dorado had him co-starring opposite Robert Mitchum, with whom Duke became firm friends on the 1966 movie. When the director of both films Howard Hawks wanted to make the film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws for the third time, he hoped he could convince his starring pair to return. And when the filmmaker first approached Duke about 1970’s Rio Lobo, the Hollywood star replied: “Do I get to play the drunk this time?” Hawks also wanted Mitchum to reprise his drunken sheriff, but the actor said he was retired. Despite this, ... Read more

Sylvester Stallone still packs a punch in 2024 (Image: GETTY) Sly Stallone turns 68 this weekend and you still wouldn’t want to tussle with him in a ring – or dark alley. The Hollywood hard man looks like he still packs a pretty hard punch and certainly never shied away from the blood, sweat, tears and PAIN when filming the many iconic fight scenes of the Rocky franchise. Not only did Stallone suffer numerous horrifying broken bones, internal injuries and hospital visits, he has always openly talked about what he went through – and usually used the actual footage in ... Read more