36 h. ago BBC now showing 'underrated' Steven Spielberg film with 'genius' cast

One of Steven Spielberg's most acclaimed films is now available to watch for free on BBC iPlayer and it boasts a stellar cast including Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance.

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43 h. ago I was a chess prodigy trapped in a religious cult. It left me with years of fear and self

Growing up dirt poor in Arizona’s Church of Immortal Consciousness, I showed an early talent for the game. Soon the cult’s leader began grooming me to become a grandmaster – even if it meant separating me from my mother When I first discovered chess, after watching the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer on HBO, I was a nine-year-old kid living in a tiny village in the mountains of Arizona. Because of its title, many people think the film is about Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who bested the Soviet Union in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky to become the first US-born world chess champion in history. Really, it’s about how the American chess world was desperate to find the next Bobby Fischer after the first one disappeared. The story follows Josh Waitzkin, a kid from Greenwich Village in New York, who sits down at a chess board with a bunch of homeless dudes in the park one day and miraculously discovers that he’s a child prodigy – at least that is the Hollywood version of the...

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3 d. ago Steven Spielberg ‘turned down by Call of Duty film’ after demands

‘Jurassic Park’ director reportedly sought to adapt the hit video game franchise into a film

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5 d. ago BBC iPlayer quietly adds Steven Spielberg's most 'underrated' film with 'genius' cast

The film in question was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture and is considered one of the best thrillers of the modern era.

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5 d. ago Iconic films to take centre stage at Vue venues in Scotland – including the original summer blockbuster

Iconic movies celebrating key milestones this year are returning to Vue for a limited run - including Steven Spielberg classic Jaws.

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8 d. ago 'Weapons' regains the top spot as the summer box office winds down

“Weapons” crawled its way back to the top of the box office during the Labor Day weekend

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2 w. ago BBC period drama hailed 'masterpiece' as viewers brand it 'best series of all time'

This underrated BBC period drama starring Poldark star Aidan Turner has fans raving.

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3 w. ago Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy review – the details are so sad but are we really shocked?

His grief-stricken friends and co-stars are moved to tears remembering his genius. But this film feels increasingly disingenuous, like a race to get to the ‘good’ stuff the criminal investigation sparked by his deathThere is a reason the sitcom Friends was so popular from the off and became such a juggernaut so quickly. The writing was brilliant, and the six actors in it were astonishing individually and even better together. Comedy is alchemical, and they transmuted gold into pure joy.Matthew Perry formed one sixth of the troupe as Chandler Bing. Every actor had their particular strength and his was perhaps to be the nimblest, the most alive to the currents crisscrossing any scene he was in. He was the only one of the cast allowed in the writers’ room to contribute, and from that maybe we can infer he was the most naturally funny off set too. Certainly his timing, even in the extraordinary company he kept, was immaculate. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Asian Persuasion review – indie New York romcom of divorcee meddling in his ex’s dating life

A coffee-shop owner tries to get out of paying alimoney with a scheme that lacks finesse at best and is sociopathic at worstIt is unexpected to see vintage romcom values upheld in an indie movie populated almost exclusively by Filipino-Americans. Tony award-winning producer Jhett Tolentino at least has a good high-concept hook for his feature directorial debut: a beleaguered divorcee tries to get out of paying alimony to his ex-wife by making a fake dating profile to bag her a new partner. Sadly, this tonally shaky and borderline-sociopathic outing doesn’t have the class or skill to be part of the much-needed renaissance for the genre.Asian Persuasion takes place on the great New York dating grounds beloved of many a romcom: feckless single dad Mickey (Dante Basco, who played the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s Hook) is struggling to elevate his Queens coffee shop, Da Fili Beans, to hipster notoriety. Ponying up payments to his fashion designer ex Avery (KC Concepcion)...

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3 w. ago Jaws child star reveals staggering earnings years after dying in hit movie

Actor Jeffrey Voorhees played doomed youngster Alex Kintner, who gets brutally killed by the shark in Steven Spielberg's Jaws, and he's admitted "it pays to die"

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3 w. ago Jaws child star reveals the staggering amount he still earns from movie 50 YEARS later

The actor, 62, played youngster Alex Kintner in the Steven Spielberg hit which premiered in 1975.

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3 w. ago Best hidden gems on BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4 and My5 to stream for free

TV fans have shared their top hidden gems across BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4 and My5 – from gritty dramas to underrated comedies, here’s what to stream right now...

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3 w. ago ‘Marty stop that! You can’t do it!’: Scorsese reveals he toyed with buying a gun to threaten film studio

Proposed edits to his movie Taxi Driver made the director so furious, he threatened to take the law into his own handsOscar-winning film director Martin Scorsese threatened to buy a gun when in a rage at a film studio, according to a new docuseries about his life. After suggested edits to his 1976 movie Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, he flew into such a fury that he began threatening to take the law into his own hands.“Marty was very upset,” says Steven Spielberg. “We get a call at the office: ‘Steve, Steve, it’s Marty. Can you come over to the house? They want me to cut all the blood spurting, they want me to cut the guy who loses his hand.’” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Masterpiece' action movie shoots up Netflix charts days after 'terrible' remake drops

The Steven Spielberg film was initially released in 2005 and it has seen a resurgence in popularity.

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