17 h. ago Next James Bond Latest Odds 2026: Here are the 14 stars tipped to be the new 007

2026 is set to be the year when we finally find out who will be stepping into the shoes of the world’s most famous fictional spy.

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17 h. ago 'Perfect' blockbuster called 'the best spy film' on TV today and it's not James Bond

The 1996 blockbuster starring Tom Cruise airs for free on BBC One tonight at 8:30pm and is available on iPlayer

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19 h. ago 'Legendary' war film based on 'unimaginable' true story is a must

The film, starring Benjamin Bratt and James Franco, tells the true story of the 1945 Cabanatuan rescue mission

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8 d. ago Terminator 2D: No Fate review – the least bad Terminator game in a long while

PC, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox; Bitmap Bureau/Reef EntertainmentArcade specialists Bitmap Bureau ply their craft in this retro remake of James Cameron’s action film. But Terminator 2D is at its strongest when colouring outside the director’s linesLike Arnie’s pulverised cyborg at the end of T2, the Terminator franchise has lumbered on long past the point of being properly functional. Every film since Judgment Day has been a disappointment or an outright disaster, and its video game spinoffs haven’t fared much better. While some half-decent ones have emerged, such as 2019’s Terminator: Resistance, there hasn’t been a great Terminator game in about 30 years.So it makes perfect sense for Terminator 2D: No Fate to attempt to fix our broken future by travelling back to the past. Developer Bitmap Bureau appeals to the series’ heyday by retelling the story of Judgment Day through a medley of retro 80s and 90s playstyles. The result is a charming and frequently thrillin...

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1 week ago 'Ultimate blockbuster' is 'perfect in all aspects' and on Film 4 tonight

An action thriller starring a British actor who has made it big in Hollywood had fans on the edge of their seat and ‘blows other blockbusters out the water’

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1 week ago Arnold Schwarzenegger's future in the Terminator franchise revealed as James Cameron teases new film

James Cameron is planning to revive the Terminator franchise with a cast of fresh faces. 

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1 week ago Russia claims its spy chief held ‘lengthy’ phone call with new head of MI6

Blaise Metreweli took office as the first female MI6 chief in October

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2 w. ago Avatar: Fire And Ash reviews: £300million third film is panned by critics who slam 'three hour hunk of nonsense' and urge director James Cameron to 'quit while he's ahead'

The third film in James Cameron's record breaking Avatar franchise has been widely panned by critics, ahead of its UK release on Friday.

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2 w. ago Avatar: Fire and Ash review – James Cameron takes 3D cinema to a spectacularly wild dimension

James Cameron, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña are back with a $400-billion epic that will leave your mind blown

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2 w. ago Avatar: Fire and Ash review – witchy new sex interest can’t save this gigantically dull hunk of nonsense

The third Avatar chapter erupts with volcanic world-building and thunderous action yet remains a vast, dazzling spectacle in search of an emotional arcOn and on and on it goes. The planet-sized movie franchise of Avatar continues to spin massively in the cosmos – yet without affecting the tides in any other world. Maybe Avatar is the cosmos and its originator James Cameron is the new L Ron Hubbard; the creator, or rather prophet, of a new belief system involving big blue creatures with pointy ears that flap and twitch when they talk, to whom we will all one day be required to bow down when they float past. And while the rest of the cinema industry has quietly abandoned 3D without ever quite admitting it, theatres showing James Cameron’s giant new three-hour hunk of nonsense are still handing out the 3D specs to the customers.The first film was about human invaders seeking to exploit and colonise the weird tall blue Na’vi people in another galaxy for their mineral resources by piloti...

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2 w. ago James Cameron joins exclusive club of billionaire film directors – and still has another Avatar release to come

His forthcoming Avatar instalment is already projected to make at least $200m at the box office

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2 w. ago Hollywood ‘devastated’ at death of director Rob Reiner and his wife

Reiner was known for directing movies including A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally.

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2 w. ago Knives Out fans ‘work out’ surprising James Bond Easter Egg in Netflix trilogy

Netflix viewers have just uncovered a surprising link between the Knives Out thriller series and Daniel Craig's famous James Bond franchise.

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3 w. ago Ella McCay review – James L Brooks returns with a sorry mess of a movie

Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Albert Brooks, Rebecca Hall and Woody Harrelson are among the stars lost in the writer-director’s baffling misfireElla McCay, a new comedy drama written and directed by James L Brooks, feels like a relic, and not just because it’s set, seemingly arbitrarily, in 2008. Broadly appealing, well cast, neither strictly comic nor melodramatic, concerning ordinary people in non-IP circumstances, it’s the type of mid-budget adult film that used to appear regularly in cinemas in the 90s and aughts, before the streaming wars devoured the market. Even its lead promotional image, turned into a life-size cardboard cut-out at the theater – Emma Mackey’s titular Ella in a sensible trench coat, balancing on one foot as she fixes a broken block heel – recalls a bygone era of films like Confessions of a Shopaholic, Miss Congeniality or Little Miss Sunshine, that would now go straight to streaming.To be clear, I miss these types of movies, and want to see more of them. I ...

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3 w. ago James McAvoy film set in Dundee council estate to close film festival

James McAvoy’s directorial debut was filmed in Dundee and Glasgow

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3 w. ago Premiere date confirmed for James McAvoy’s directorial debut

Actor’s film will be shown at next year’s Glasgow Film Festival

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3 w. ago UK premiere of James McAvoy’s directorial debut to close Glasgow Film Festival

California Schemin’ will be shown at the event next year.

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3 w. ago Outlander star lands major role in new James McAvoy film set in Scotland

Outlander fans can watch the star in a very different role away from the Starz period drama series

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4 w. ago Exclusive: James Norton on Planet Health Stories and House of Guinness season 2

The Independent spoke exclusively to Happy Valley actor James Norton about new film collection Planet Health Stories and his hopes for House of Guinness season two.

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4 w. ago New James Bond Latest Odds: Here are the 15 frontrunners to become 007

There are still a fair few actors in the running to become the world’s most famous secret agent.

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