Movies

John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed both of those films, wanted to make it a third time in 1970’s Rio Lobo. When the filmmaker first approached Duke about the …

Santa Claus is morbidly obese, with a BMI of 41.5 – with the largest portrayal coming in animated festive film, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. Researchers analysed 10 popular Christmas movies, TV shows, and adverts, to calculate his average BMI, revealing he far exceeds a healthy weight of between 18.5 to …

It’s A Wonderful Life has been given its own dedicated channel. Widely considered one of the greatest Christmas films of all time, the festive classic tells the magical tale of an angel visiting a frustrated businessman on Christmas Eve, showing him how his kindness has transformed so many lives. And …

Rebel Moon star Ray Fisher has opened up about reuniting with Zack Snyder and teased what fans can expect from his upcoming extended cut. Part One: A Child of Fire released on Netflix this Friday, with both a second instalment and a director’s cut with an extra hour of footage …

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget has been in production for years, with stop-motion animation taking a little longer to put together than standard Hollywood blockbusters. However, the Aardman Animation sequel has been faced with a number of extra hurdles to overcome starting with a fire in 2005 that devastated …

Iconic ‘levitation’ scene from the 1973 movie (Image: Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo) “On December 26, a movie called The Exorcist opened in theatres across the country…and since then all Hell has broken loose.” That opening sentence from a Newsweek article 50 years ago was written barely …

Before his passing in July 2022, James Caan, who played Will Ferrell’s biological father in the Christmas classic Elf, revealed why a sequel to the 2003 hit never happened. In an interview, he shared that despite the cast, including Zooey Deschanel and Mary Steenburgen, being keen for a reunion, tension …

For the past few years, Hollywood star Ezra Miller has been ingrained in controversies after rising to fame in the Fantastic Beasts series, part of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise, which airs on ITV at 5:30pm today. The Perks of Being A Wallflower star is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, …

Having worked with formerly blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on Spartacus to great success, Kirk Douglas hired the scribe to adapt Howard Rigsby’s 1957 novel Sundown at Crazy Horse. The 1961 movie, retitled The Last Sunset, would see the Hollywood star play fugitive Brendan O’Malley, who crosses the Mexican border and …

John Wayne’s final movie The Shootist (which is on ITV4 today) hit cinemas in 1976, just three years before he died. For the past 15 years, Duke had been struggling with severe health problems after having had a cancerous lung and some ribs removed in 1964. The Western legend would …