Movies

With a resounding 92 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes, 2018 Indonesian action thriller The Night Comes for Us is a masterclass in raw storytelling and visceral intensity. Written and directed by Timo Tjahjanto, the project was originally conceived as a script, then adapted into a graphic novel, before eventually …

It was a time before CGI, before Marvel and most importantly before Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to do light comedies. 1980s action flicks were in a time of Ronald Reagan and when action films weren’t trying to tell society how to live their lives – they are about good guys, bad …

The Hollywood hunk turns 42 today, as many fans continue to cross their fingers that Amazon will cast him as the next James Bond. The blockbuster actor is best known for playing Superman, but only two of his DC movies made his Top 10 movies on IMDb. Meanwhile, fans blocked …

This classic gangster film is the best movie of all time, according to Rotten Tomatoes and is available to stream on two platforms. The Godfather (1972) is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and NOW TV. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo’s best-selling …

Amazon Prime viewers can tune into a “lesser known masterpiece”. The gripping military drama first released in 1989 is now available to watch on the streaming platform. It has received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike who have branded the gritty tale a must watch. Pekka Parikka’s epic The …

Prime Video subscribers have only a couple of weeks left to catch Guy Ritchie’s star studded action comedy The Gentlemen. The 2019 movie has been available on the streaming service but will leave on May 18 meaning there is less than a fortnight to catch it. Guy wrote, directed and …

What makes a movie the best of all time? Is it the cinematography, the character development or the shock factor? There are many reasons that a film can stand the test of time. From comic book blockbusters to gangster thrillers, would you count any of these in your top 10? …

A beloved Heath Ledger film, hailed by fans as his finest performance, is leaving Prime Video this month. Brokeback Mountain, which premiered in 2005, will mark its 20th anniversary this December. The drama is among Ledger’s most acclaimed roles, with many fans contending that he deserved an Oscar for his …

One war movie is such a “masterpiece” it received a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, ranked as the top war film on its site, and was hailed the “best war movie ever”. Now streaming on Netflix, the 1988 animated tale isn’t what you’d expect from a war film, but critics …

It stars one of the greatest Hollywood actors of all time, was made by one of its most famous directors and is based on a book by one of the world’s best-selling authors. So perhaps it’s not a big surprise that it went on to be called “the scariest horror …