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Nearly two and a half years after it finished filming in 2022, the long-awaited Red Sonja reboot is finally being released in 2025. It had been years since the project was first announced before things finally got moving on in 2021, when Tasha Huo (Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft) was brought on board to pen the script, and M. J. Bassett (Silent Hill: Revelation) was brought in to direct. The film stars Matilda Lutz (Revenge) in the titular role made famous by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 original.

Per Deadline, Red Sonja will be released in the UK later this year after Signature Entertainment acquired UK and Irish rights to the film, which has already been sold to multiple international markets by Millennium Media. A firm release date has yet to be set, and it remains unclear when the movie might make its way to U.S. soil. Still, Begüm Kayacan Parodi...

There have been so many great fantasy movies over the years that never received the box office love they deserved. As a genre that relies on viewers letting themselves be swept away by alternative worlds and stories of magical wonder, sometimes it takes a while for the value of a fantasy story to be recognized by viewers, and it is only years or decades later that a fantasy film takes its rightful place as a cult classic. Other times, movies that should have been great were handled badly, and subpar films were released that didnt reach their full potential.

Some of the biggest box office flops of all time were in the fantasy genre, as this was a style that can feel overly campy and needlessly self-important if not presented well. Its a fine line to walk, and while the best fantasy movies ever have pulled this off well, other...

If you think Red Sonja is a cinematic low for Arnold Schwarzenegger, hold onto your popcorn! Helmed by Richard Fleischer and penned by Clive Exton and George MacDonald Fraser, this 1985 flick might not have snagged any Oscars, but it does offer a buffet of campy fun and over-the-top sword fights.

Fans of the Austrian Oak, however, argue that this sword-and-sorcery movie isn’t even close to his worst film. That dubious honor goes to Hercules in New York (1970), the actor’s debut flick.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brigitte Nielsen in Red Sonja (1985) | Credit:

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Schwarzenegger’s first big screen outing, directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, has been widely panned. The movie’s reputation is so poor that fans often scratch their heads, baffled by how the actor went from this flop to a superstar. One especially puzzled viewer even asked, “How did he become a star?”

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Regarding movie stars during the 1980s, it does not get any bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger, who spent this decade starring in some of the most iconic action movies ever produced. From his breakout success in Conan the Barbarian to the timeless appeal of The Terminator, this Austrian bodybuilder managed to become one of Hollywoods most bankable stars and earn his place as a touchstone of modern popular culture. With a skill for playing no-nonsense heroes who had little issue with leaving bodies and carnage in their wake, the only thing more unstoppable than Schwarzenegger during the 1980s was his career.

Many of the best Schwarzenegger action movies were released during the 1980s, as his ongoing rivalry with fellow action hero Sylvester Stallone meant they pushed one another to continually up the stakes and make increasingly intense, over-the-top action movies. Schwarzenegger played fantasy warriors, unstoppable killing machines, and skilled Special Forces officers during this time,...

Red Sonja & Mystique Cosplayers: Maitland Ward & Grip Goddess In the times of sword and sorcery, amazonian Red Sonja avenges her sister's death and deposes an evil queen. With box-office superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger ("Eraser," "True Lies") and Golden Globe-winner Sandahl Bergman ("Conan the Barbarian"). Actors: Brigitte Nielsen, Ernie Reyes Jr., Pat Roach, Paul L. Smith, Sandahl Bergman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger Director: Richard Fleischer * Screenwriters: Clive Exton & George MacDonald Fraser...

Lee Evans is heading on a new 51-date stand-up tour called 'Monsters' in 2014, it has announced.

It will be Evans's biggest ever tour, even surpassing his hugely successful 'Wired and Wonderful', 'Big' and 'Roadrunner' shows.

From 2002 to 2011, Evans performed for over 1,605,000 people on his four live arena tours.

Later this year, Lee will return to treading the boards of the West End, starring alongside Sheila Hancock and Keeley Hawes in Clive Exton's new play Barking In Essex at the Wyndham's Theatre in London.

The 'Monsters' tour starts on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at Bournemouth International Centre, before visiting Brighton, Nottingham, Sheffield, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Aberdeen, Liverpool, Newcastle, Dublin, Belfast, Wembley Arena and Cardiff.

Evans will also play four nights at London's O2 Arena, where he will film his tour DVD.

Tickets for the shows go on sale on Monday, May 20 at 9am.

Watch a clip of Lee Evans's 'Roadrunner'...

★★★★★ The BFI follow up their release earlier this year of Volumes 1 and 2 in the classic BBC Christmas Ghost Story series with six more blood chilling tales for cold winter nights, produced by Rosemary Hill and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and Derek Lister. As well as three stories from the master of Victorian menace M. R. James, another period tale is included this time by Charles Dickens, as well as contemporary frighteners from Clive Exton and John Bowen.

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A remake of Straw Dogs reminds us that 1971, which also spawned A Clockwork Orange and 10 Rillington Place, was a wonderful annus horribilis of shock cinema in Britain

Recently, in honour of this week's release of the Straw Dogs remake, an interviewer from Film 2011 listened to me indulgently while I rambled on the subject of 1971 And All That.

1971 was the year of highly controversial and violent movies like Sam Peckinpah's original Straw Dogs and Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. It was also the year of Dirty Harry, and I have myself blogged about William Friedkin's 1971 film The French Connection, a pretty brutal film positively drenched in 1971-ness. What was it that made the year 1971 the annus mirabilis (or horribilis) of shock cinema in Britain? It could have been something to do with the fact that this was the year of John Trevelyan's retirement as a markedly liberal director of...

British-born director known for Anne of the Thousand Days and Mary, Queen of Scots

The film and television director Charles Jarrott, who has died of cancer aged 83, began his career during a golden period of British TV drama, working on Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play in the 1960s alongside writers and directors such as Ken Loach, Dennis Potter and David Mercer. Both series were presided over by the Canadian producer Sydney Newman, who encouraged original work – what he called "agitational contemporaneity" – and had an astonishing impact. But in 1969 Jarrott's career took a different turn when he left for Hollywood, thereby increasing his income a hundredfold, while having to contend with far less adventurous material. His best films were his first, two Elizabethan costume dramas, Anne of the Thousand Days and Mary, Queen of Scots, enlivened by the Oscar-nominated performances of Richard Burton (Henry VIII), Geneviève Bujold (Anne Boleyn) and...