Movies

As a Literature graduate and avid reader, I love nothing more than indulging in a quality film or period drama, finding joy in watching my favourite classics come to life on the big screen. Not often that a director gets it right, my hopes for the new film Wuthering Heights were meagre to begin with. Following years of Disney remakes, live adaptations and what feels like a complete lack of fresh scripts, Director Emerald Fennel's new trailer has finally been released - to the disgust and anger of the internet, Instagram and X (Twitter), bursting into angry flames in its wake.Sharing the outrage of Bronte's readers by the casting of Hollywood actors Margot Robbie, 35, and Jacob Elordi, 28, earlier this year, I couldn't help but hope for a miracle – or at the very least a substantial effo...

Sylvester Stallone is renowned for portraying Hollywood's most formidable tough guys but Rocky stands head and shoulders above the rest. The third film in the series depicts the iconic boxer at his lowest ebb, as both his personal life and career seem to hit rock bottom.And art imitated life when Stallone endured a harrowing moment on set with Hulk Hogan, filming an intense scene where he squared up to a colossal adversary who charged at him like "an enraged bull."After being floored by the impact, the battered actor implored the crew not to move him, fearing he had snapped his collarbone.Stallone would later end up in hospital after a brutal encounter with Dolph Lundgren during the making of Rocky IV in 1985, but he has admitted that nothing compared to the excruciating pain he experie...

Joe Wright's Atonement, the acclaimed World War 2 film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, certainly left its mark with seven Oscar nods and a whopping fourfold box office profit.Gripping and beautifully filmed, Atonement centres on the events of one sweltering summer day in 1935, the repercussions of which echo across six decades. It features a breathtaking five-minute long shot, which required 1,000 extras, portraying the chaos of the Dunkirk evacuation through the eyes of James McAvoy's character. If that piques your interest, there are just days left to catch the war film on Netflix before it goes off the streaming platform on June 16.Atonement holds a 83% 'fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes.The site's critics consensus says: "Atonement features strong performances, brilliant ...

Tom Hardy has starred in over 40 films so far in his career (Image: Getty)Over the past two decades, Tom Hardy has quietly become one of the most versatile actors in modern cinema. From his early days in minor roles to headline-making performances in Oscar-winning epics, his career has covered everything from lowkey indie dramas to blockbuster franchises.While many know him best for roles like Bane in The Dark Knight Rises or Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road, his filmography is far more expansive - with biopics, war films, and even period dramas adding layers to his versatile career.This list looks at 12 of his most notable film performances, ranked by order of greatness according to the general audience on the reviewing platform Letterboxd.12 - Bronson (2008)3.6/5Biographical dram...

Over the last couple of decades, there has been a string of cringy, preachy, and poorly made faith-based movies.But now Angel Studios, the people behind The Chosen, have come along and brought a high-quality return to form across their film and TV shows.Their latest movie, The King of Kings, is the first high-budget animated Biblical epic to hit cinemas since 1998’s The Prince of Egypt.This Easter treat jumps between 19th-century London and the 1st-century Holy Land, boasting an incredible A-list Hollywood cast (Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman, Mark Hamill, Pierce Brosnan, Forest Whitaker, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Oscar Isaac).In a rather eccentric narrative move (which actually works rather well), the film follows Charles Dickens (Branagh) telling his son a bedtime story of Jesus Christ’s bi...

Almost four years ago, Spider-Man: No Way Home stormed the box office, making almost $2 billion worldwide and becoming Sony’s biggest film ever.Now Tom Holland is back in Spider-Man 4, which will be released after Robert Downey Jr’s return as Doctor Doom in Avengers Doomsday.Announced at the Sony panel during Cinema Con in Las Vegas last night (this is no April Fool), the new MCU movie will be titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day with Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton directing.Holland himself teased of his Marvel return: “I know we left you with a massive cliffhanger at the end of No Way Home… so Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a fresh start... It is exactly that. That’s all I can say.”Brand New Day is a Spider-Man comic book storyline set after the world has forgotten him. That fits perfectl...

Harry Potter's Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the original film series, has teased that he knows some of the "incredible actors" being cast in the new HBO series.The highly anticipated show is set to premiere in 2026, with casting announcements expected in the coming months.Rumours are already swirling about potential big-name stars, including Oscar-winners Mark Rylance as Albus Dumbledore and Cillian Murphy as Lord Voldemort.In a recent interview for the upcoming third season of The White Lotus, Isaacs revealed that some of the cast has already been confirmed."Oh, I know who they're casting," he shared. "They're incredible actors."His co-star Patrick Schwarzenegger tried to pry more information from him, but Isaacs remained tight-lipped.However, if his update is accurate, Ha...

Back in 1964, John Wayne had a cancerous lung and a few ribs removed, leaving him stricken with health problems for the rest of his life.Duke would struggle tenaciously through physical scenes in his movies, secretly relying on an oxygen mask that he was desperate to hide from the public, so as not to taint his strong cinematic image.Pushing on to make a string of movies over the next decade, including his Oscar win for True Grit, the Western legend's final film, The Shootist, hit cinemas in 1976, just three years before he died.It’s commonly believed that Wayne was living with the stomach cancer that killed him in 1979, when playing a cowboy living with the disease in The Shootist. However, this was not the case, as Duke had been cancer-free since 1969.According to Scott Ryman’s John W...