Movies

On Wayne’s 72nd birthday on May 26, 1979, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal after Hollywood stars, both Republicans and Democrats, supported the award with statements praising Duke as an American icon and patriot. This was especially touching given the clashes the dying star had had with some of …

Film fans are now able to re-live the excitement of this “forgotten” spy thriller for free on Channel 4. The 2014 release of A Most Wanted Man which has been hailed as “superb” stars Rachel McAdams and the late Hollywood icon Philip Seymour Hoffman. The movie, based on John le …

A leading film industry analyst has shared the timeline and scale of rising social and political themes in cinema, revealing a significant increase in what many now refer to as “woke” content in mainstream films. Stephen Follows, an industry researcher and educator, analysed over 51,000 films dating from 1940 to …

Widely regarded as one of the best films of all time, Goodfellas is one of Martin Scorsese’s finest and enshrined as a classic of the genre. The film tells the story of Henry Hill – a poor Irish-Italian kid from New York whose admiration of the Mafia members in his …

Seven Lost is a 2021 independent war film that follows a group of Latino American soldiers who get stranded behind enemy lines in the Italian wilderness during World War II. The film follows their fight for survival and takes a closer look at their efforts to return to safety. Written, …

An “underrated” war film featuring a major star from the original Star Wars trilogy is among the most “underrated” in the genre, but boasts a sky-high 90% rating. The Big Red One hit British screens in 1980 and is a gritty portrayal of a US infantry unit in World War …

A dramatic miniseries depicting the horrors of the Iraq war has a rating of over 90%, and one fan has hailed it as “phenonmenal”. Generation Kill, released in 2008, is a seven-part drama based on a book of the same name by Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright. The HBO series, …

An epic war film, originally released in 2000, is dropping on Netflix this Sunday and fans describe it as a “masterpiece”. U-571 is an World War 2 drama film that follows a group of Americans as they board a German submarine with the hope of infiltrating the security and stealing …

Main Middle Man shared on X: “Feige wanted a more grounded X-Men story with a plot that really focused on social issues and disagreements about what it means to be a mutant. He wanted a powerful dramatic movie that really showed what the X-Men were all about, with the Brotherhood …

A couple of years ago, Edward Berger’s remake of the anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front won four Oscars. But did you know it was the third award-winning adaptation of the classic 1929 novel? The 1930 original film is considered one of the most realistic depictions of World …