Movies

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...