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In 1964, John Frankenheimer’s American-French production The Train first hit cinemas and was nominated for the Best Screenplay Oscar. The World War 2 movie was set in August 1944 and followed French Resistance fighter Paul Labiche, played by Burt Lancaster, taking on Paul Scofield’s German Colonel Franz von Waldheim. The …

Earlier this year, Alex Garland gave us Civil War, a dystopian imagining of the Second American Civil War in modern times. And now he’s back at A24 with Warfare, a movie set in 2006 amidst the Iraq War. The new action thriller is co-written and directed by the 28 Years …

For over a year, rumours have been swirling that Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been cast as the new James Bond. The 34-year-old has been the subject of multiple news reports that the role is his if he wants it, having apparently impressed producer Barbara Broccoli. Since then, the Kraven the Hunter …

Every time December comes around, it’s all too easy to watch the same old Christmas films year after year. From It’s A Wonderful Life to Love Actually, Elf and The Muppet Christmas Carol, we’ve seen these festive flicks umpteen times. If anything, the familiarity makes us feel it’s okay to …

Timothée Chalamet has proclaimed “I’m the hardest working man” after divulging a significant compromise he made for the anticipated Bob Dylan biopic. The 28-year-old actor portrays the iconic singer-songwriter in ‘A Complete Unknown’, set to premiere in UK theatres on January 17. The film chronicles Dylan’s ascent during the 1960s …

Top Gun is a blockbuster classic, but the sequel was even more of a success – and not just at the box office. Tom Cruise’s Top Gun Maverick, which was four decades in the making, made a whopping $1.496 billion – the biggest haul of the star’s career to date. …

The Lion King 2019 may have ruled the box office with a gigantic $1.6 billion worldwide gross, but it was largely considered a fruitless exercise in giving a masterpiece of animation a coat of Uncanny Valley paint while extending the narrative with needless drama and a mediocre new ballad and …

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 films, wanted to make it a third time in 1970’s Rio Lobo. When the filmmaker first approached Duke about the idea, the …

Earlier this month, the first trailer for Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s long-awaited 28 Years Later landed. The excitement is real, given that, after It: Chapter Two, it was the most-watched horror trailer of all time in its first 24 hours, with 60.2 million views. Since the new film trilogy …

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. …