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When the first trailer for Nuremberg dropped, my first impression was of a somewhat mid-tier-headed-for-streaming period drama. Yet to my surprise and delight, this two-and-a-half-hour film is one of the best Oscar season contenders to hit cinemas so far this year. This is a good old-fashioned World War 2 epic, destined for award nominations; the kind of movie that was unapologetically so in the 1990s. Based on Jack El-Hai’s 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, writer-director James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg tells the true story of Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), whose job it was to determine if Hitler’s right-hand man, Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), was mentally fit to stand trial for his war crimes. What transpires is a hugely entertaining and accessible movie that simultaneously wrest...

The ninth instalment of the science fiction franchise Predator has just landed in cinemas. Starring Elle Fanning, Predator: Badlands has been well received so far, unlike some of its predecessors, particularly the 2018 film which was a box office flop.Fans of the series, which kicked off in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger playing Major Dutch Schaefer battling an alien hunting humans for sport, might want to refresh their memory of the backstory by tuning into the lesser-known prequel, Prey, airing on Film 4 tonight. Released in 2022 and featuring Amber Midthunder as young Comanche hunter Naru fighting to save her tribe, it became an unexpected critical hit and was the most viewed film in the US on Hulu and Disney Plus.Directed by Dan Trachtenberg and set in 1719 in the Northern Great Pl...

This “thought-provoking” western was nominated for four Oscars and has been praised by fans for its historically accuracy and stellar performances.Written and directed by Paul Greengrass News of The World (2020) is set in 1870 in the Reconstruction Era in Texas. Tom Hanks plays Captain Kidd, who is a Civil War veteran who finds a dishevelled little girl in the Wild West.He finds the girl with a dead man, alongside papers which indicate that Johanna (Helena Zengel) was raised by Kiowa Native Americans after her parents were killed.It becomes apparent that US Army sent an agent to travel with the girl but this agent died and the girl was stranded. No one wants to help the girl so Captain Kidd finally agrees.The girl’s family were German immigrants so she barely understands any English - m...

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...

One WWII film has enraptured audiences across the world and is a must-watch for fans of historical storytelling, after others were left in tears by another wartime piece and some praised a movie hailed better than Saving Private Ryan.The movie came out in 2008 and has won high praise, award nominations and accolades for its leading star.Audience members have previously showered the movie in praise on IMDb and many have given it 10/10 reviews.One person hailed the film as a “brilliant, sexually charged, and oddly heartbreaking tale about the complexity of human morality” in their top-rated review.A second commented: “This is one of the most powerful movies I have ever seen, it was so incredible and just heart breaking.”They added: “The story is so heart wrenching and painful, but was tol...

Based on Lauren Weisberger’s novel of the same name, The Devil Wears Prada follows Anne Hathaway’s aspiring journalist Andy Sachs, who starts working at a fashion magazine edited by Meryl Streep’s icy Miranda Priestly.Now the long-awaited sequel has received its first trailer and a release date set 20 years after the original.Based on the sequel novel Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns, the new film co-stars Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Tracie Thoms and Tabor Feldman, who also reprise their roles from the first film.Meanwhile, original director and screenwriter David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna return for The Devil Wears Prada 2, respectively.The film’s official synopsis reads: “Almost twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, An...

Edgar Wright’s latest movie, The Running Man, hits cinemas today in yet another Stephen King adaptation release this year.The dystopian action thriller follows Glen Powell’s Ben Richards in a lethal game show where he has to survive 30 days without being assassinated by mercenaries hunting him down.During the film, the lead travels across the US, starting with New York City, before a massive Pennywise It Easter egg shows up.And this one is particularly apt given that prequel TV series It: Welcome to Derry is streaming weekly on NOW.During his travels, Richards finds himself travelling to Derry, Maine, the fictional town setting of It, where Pennywise terrorises children every 27 years. Set in the near future, The Running Man clearly takes place in the same universe (King’s Maine univers...

As Chief Whip of Reform UK, a party that would likely win power if there were a General Election tomorrow, Lee Anderson has a lot on his plate.Nevertheless, the Ashfield MP likes to put his feet up when he can and enjoy a good movie.When the 58-year-old recently bumped into me, the Daily Express film critic, he asked what my favourite film was.I said Back to the Future – today is, in fact, the 70th anniversary of Marty McFly going back to said future in the original movie.Returning the question back to Lee, it turns out his favourite film is another classic directed by Robert Zemeckis with music once again composed by Alan Silvestri.Lee enthusiastically proclaimed his favourite film to be Forrest Gump. The 1994 Tom Hanks classic about an Alabama man and his life through the mid-20th cen...

This film has been described as the "film of the year" and it has finally dropped on to streaming platforms. Anora is a romantic drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison and Mark Eydelshteyn. The supporting cast includes Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Darya Ekamasova, and Aleksei Serebryakov. Anora premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, where it received critical acclaim and won the Palme d'Or. Anora received numerous accolades. The film was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. The film received six nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, winning five for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Madison), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film ...

Two years ago, The Super Mario Bros Movie dominated the box office, raking in over $1.3 billion worldwideThe CG-animated Nintendo adventure starring Chris Pratt as the Italian plumber and Jack Black as Bowser has a long-awaited sequel, arriving in cinemas next year.Originally rumoured to be called The Super Mario World Movie, the actual title is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, teasing a lift off into space inspired by the Mario Galaxy video games.The first full trailer has landed with Bowser still shrunk down from the first film; meanwhile, a couple of new stars have been revealed as voicing Nintendo legends.Benny Safdie is playing Bowser Jr, while Brie Larson is voicing Mario Galaxy’s space princess Rosalina. Plot details remain unknown, but they are expected to become clearer in a new t...