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This decades-old thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston is now streaming on BBC iPlayer.The Others went somewhat under the radar at the time of release in 2001, but has since garnered a cult following with an impressive 84% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. It was also nominated for a whopping 55 awards.Written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar, the film is a chilling tale of a woman reckoning with her children’s rare illness and losing her husband in WW2. The pacing of the journey Grace (Nicole Kidman) is forced on asks viewers to second guess every character, before a sucker punch of an ending that will leave you thinking about the story for days to come.Battling with her conviction in God, Grace is driven mad by the prospect of her house being haunted and is exasp...

As a newly found thriller lover, I have found myself trolling through various horrors in the lead up to Halloween. But there is one film I believe to be the greatest thriller of them all, and it might surprise you. The film in question was released in 2009 and features a starry lineup including Megan Fox, Adam Brody and Amanda Seyfried. It was not appreciated at the time by the critics, but in the years after its release, it has continued to grow in popularity and gain a cult following. It is, of course, Jennifer's Body - the thriller meets comedy film that flopped at the box office. Directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Diablo Cody, with producer Jason Reitman, who stated that he and his producers "want to make unusual films", Cody said she wanted the film to speak to female empowerm...

A gritty thriller is hailed by fans as a "masterpiece" and boasts a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Mother (2009) tells the story of an unnamed middle-aged widow (played Kim Hye-ja) who lives with her 27-year-old son (Won-bin) in a small South Korean town. He has learning difficulties and she is intensely protective of him.After he is accused of murdering a local girl, she sets out to prove his innocence and find the real killer. The film was directed by Bong Joon Ho, perhaps best known for 2019's Parasite, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director.Mother, which came out some 10 years earlier, features the filmmaker's characteristic flashes of surrealism, violence, and piercing examination of social issues.It's been hailed by audiences, with one fan on Rotten Tomatoes writing: ...

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...