When Franco Zeffirelli’s film version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was released in 1968, it made the two lead actors, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey,
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Jack Bond obituary
The Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí refused to cooperate with anyone wanting to make a film about him – until 1965, when he was finally
Father of the Bride and Baby Boom director Charles Shyer dies aged 83
Charles Shyer, the director of Father of the Bride and Baby Boom, who formed a successful comedy film-making partnership with his then wife Nancy Meyers,
Diabel review – canine sidekick along for ride as dour war veteran biffs bad guys
Here is a film from Poland that is proof that when a macho action hero has a canine sidekick, it makes him at least 64%
Rebel Wilson weds Ramona Agruma in Sydney – and this time it’s for real
Rebel Wilson has married wife, Ramona Agruma, for the second time in Sydney and this time it was legal. Wilson, the Australian actor and director,
The best films of 2024 … you may not have seen
Drugstore June I can’t really blame anyone for not seeing Drugstore June in theaters, considering that scattered, super-limited run lasted just a few weeks. (I
Olivia Hussey, star of 1968 Romeo and Juliet film, dies aged 73
Olivia Hussey, who starred as a teenage Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, garnering her a Golden Globe, died peacefully at her
Nickel Boys star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘If we see something wrong and don’t say anything, we’re participants’
There is a scene in Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s new film in which she gives a hug unlike any other hug you’ll see on screen. The film
‘I had to make the vampire as scary as possible’: Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers on how folklore fuelled his film
We are all drawn to archetypal stories. Fairytales, folktales, fables, myths: we tell them over and over again because they always have meaning in our
Baby Driver actor Hudson Meek, 16, dies after fall from moving vehicle
The teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said. Meek, 16, was hurt on December