Movies

Back in 1951, Ealing Studios produced the classic comedy movie The Lavender Hill Mob. Set on the street of the same name in Battersea near London’s Clapham Junction, the film follows Alec Guinness’ clerk responsible for transporting a bank’s gold supplies for the last two decades. But now he’s decided …

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 …