Movies

Back in 1950, John Wayne starred in Rio Grande, the third of his Cavalry Trilogy (alongside Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) with director John Ford. Cast and crew struggled terribly with the extremely hot Utah location, with sets and stages having to be built in such challenging …

The Fantastic Four have not had a great run at the cinema, with both iterations by 20th Century Fox being panned by the critics. Nevertheless, now that Disney has the rights the MCU can finally do Marvel’s First Family right. We were treated to a fan-cast variant of Mr Fantastic …

Tom Holland may be Spider-Man in Disney’s MCU thanks to a deal with Sony, but the latter studio continues to churn out Marvel villain solo movies set in other universes. Following Tom Hardy’s Venom, Jared Leto’s Morbius and the delayed Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven the Hunter comes Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web. …

Back in 1963, John Wayne starred in a Western comedy 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 a number of issues. High-ranking government officials, his own sons and local Native Americans all want …

Colin Baker played Doctor Who for just two years (Image: BBC) It is September 1986 and actor Colin Baker has been playing Doctor Who for just two years. However, all is not well on Gallifrey or Earth. There is, to put it bluntly, trouble in the Tardis. BBC Controller Michael …

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 …

Ingrid Bergman remains best known for Casablanca, from a career that garnered three Oscars and numerous other accolades. The Swedish star enjoyed huge critical and commercial success but later confessed she had felt trapped in roles too often dictated by her beauty and her innate elegance. One film could have …

Over his incredible Hollywood career, John Wayne had many regular collaborators in his movies like Ward Bond, Howard Hawks and John Ford. Duke and these men were part of Tinseltown’s strong conservative circle who were in favour of blacklisting suspected communists and progressive Democrats. One of these Republican close friends …

From this week onwards, I shall never hear How Soon Is Now? without seeing Michael Fassbender shoot a prostitute through the chest with a sniper rifle. It’s far from the only song by the indie icons in director David Fincher’s slick, brutal and utterly brilliant action movie. Fassbender’s nameless hitman …

As the Hollywood strike comes to an end, studios are getting back to work and announcing some inevitable release date delays. Disney’s Marvel Studios will be moving back four of their next five MCU movies. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s Deadpool 3, which is 50 per cent through filming, has …