Movies

A "harrowing" thriller featuring Matthew McConaughey is keeping critics on the "edge of their seats".The Lost Bus, based on a true survival story, takes audiences back to the catastrophic California wildfires of 2018. It tells the tale of a bus driver and a school teacher who find themselves in the midst of the blaze as they attempt to save school children.The film is set to debut in select cinemas on 19 September before launching on Apple TV+ on 3 October. Starring Matthew McConaughey (famed for his roles in Magic Mike and Interstellar), the film is directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Greengrass, renowned for his work on the Bourne action film series.Apple TV teases: "A determined father (Matthew McConaughey) risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher (America Ferrera) and her s...

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...