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As We Approach The 20th Anniversary Of Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King, I Can’t Stop Thinking About This Endearing Viggo Mortensen Behind-The-Scenes Moment

An official documentary reveals a heartwarming Viggo Mortensen moment from the filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

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Forget Viggo Mortensen breaking his toe, this resurfaced Lord of the Rings interview shows the true danger behind one of the trilogy's most iconic battles

The Battle of the Black gate was shot in a pretty treacherous location

Total Film

Leo: Bloody Sweet review – leave your logic at the door for rampaging action yarn

The Tamil version of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence is wildly enjoyable, packed full of hyenas, car chases, fight scenes and, of course, song and dance

The Guardian - UK

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Toronto film festival 2023 roundup – solidarity, swearing, swimming and one standout film

While a clutch of directorial debuts by actors mostly misfired, a return to form for Alexander Payne and award-worthy performances by Jamie Foxx and Jodie Comer offered plenty to get excited about

The Guardian - UK

Vicky Krieps on the feminist Western 'The Dead Don't Hurt' and how she leaves behind past roles

Vicky Krieps stars in Viggo Mortensen's feminist Western “The Dead Don’t Hurt” as a woman assaulted while her partner is away fighting for the Union army

The Independent UK

The Dead Don’t Hurt review – love blossoms amid violence in Viggo Mortensen’s western

The star directs, writes, composes and acts in this beautifully shot and sombre film about an old-school hero in a 19th-century frontier community fraught with tragedy

The Guardian - UK

Meet Catty Bradshaw! The stars who take home pets from sets

SJP’s kitten! Sophie Turner’s dire wolf! Viggo Mortensen’s entire stable of horses! Some celebs just can’t say goodbye to their on-screen animals

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Emily to Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Emma Mackey is excellent in a smart biopic of the Wuthering Heights author, and Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch will have you toe-tapping non-stop

The Guardian - UK

Masterpieces and oddities: Cormac McCarthy’s bleak, bold and batty films

From the exemplary adaptation of No Country for Old Men to the offbeat screenplay for The Counselor, McCarthy’s sparse style lent itself to cinema

The Guardian - AU

Cormac McCarthy only signed 250 copies of The Road so son could sell them and ‘go to Las Vegas’

US author was famously averse to promoting his own material

The Independent UK

Eureka review – booze, bird souls and Viggo Mortensen in barmy yet rich experimental enigma

The Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso is back with another rewardingly weird journey into the unknown

The Guardian - UK

The 10 worst Oscar Best Picture winners of all time, from Braveheart to Green Book

OSCARS 2026: Geoffrey Macnab chooses the more ridiculous films to have ever won Hollywood's most prestigious award

The Independent UK

Actor Frank Vallelonga Jr. of ‘Green Book’ fame found dead in Bronx; suspect charged with dumping body

NEW YORK — An overdose victim whose corpse was dumped on a Bronx sidewalk was identified Thursday as the son of a onetime Copacabana bouncer played by Viggo Mortensen in the Oscar-winning movie “Green Book.”

Tribune News Service

Matt Hancock may cause the UK to combust with embarrassment

Hat Mancock. Matt Halfcock. The Oatmilk Tray Man. The wandering member for West Suffolk. He who makes Alan Partridge look like Viggo Mortensen. Making fun of former health secretary Matt Hancock is like shooting fish in a barrel. No, wait, it’s like shooting a fish that spends its entire life…

Evening Standard

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Tan France Had An Embarro Encounter With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau So Awkward Even I’m Flustered

Time to get those queer eyes checked.

The Guardian - UK

Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s slightly creaky tribute to his own past

The body horror auteur returns to favourite themes, if not the peak of his powers, as Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart star in this playfully grisly tale of surgery as the new sex

The Independent UK

Crimes of the Future review: S&M kitsch and an arch Kristen Stewart result in mid-tier Cronenberg

In its lesser moments, the body horror maestro’s new film is clunky and very close to self-parody

Evening Standard

Crimes of the Future movie review: absolutely barking but ultimately satisfying

Cronenberg’s latest prioritises atmosphere over plot but Kristen Stewart’s performance makes everything feel urgent

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TV tonight: deja vu dating in the search for love

More matches, mis-matches and awkward moments in First Dates Hotel. Plus, Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Pinocchio to Thor: Love and Thunder – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Tom Hanks – who else? – plays Geppetto in Disney’s remake of the nosy classic, while Chris Hemsworth’s hammer-wielding god is back for another comic adventure

Bangkok Post

Thai cave rescue revisited

The historical true events behind Amazon Prime's original film Thirteen Lives are already widely known. Now director Ron Howard is bringing his own version of the chilling human survival drama to the screen.

ABC News

Thirteen Lives brings Thai cave rescue story to life with measured realism from director Ron Howard

The perilous journey of a junior soccer team trapped in a cave by floodwaters captured the world’s attention in 2018 and is the focus of this new film by Ron Howard.

The Independent UK

‘Watch this movie – your hearts will be on fire’: Thirteen Lives viewers blown away by Thai cave rescue film

Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen star as cave divers in the new movie

Asharq Al-Awsat

Review: ‘Thirteen Lives’ Gets Lost in Sprawling Rescue Story

Twenty-seven years ago, Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13” saluted men with the right stuff — quiet courage and grace under pressure. This summer, he’s returned to that magic number for a similar rescue tale but traded the vastness of space for a film deep underground. “Thirteen Lives” is a dramatization of…

The Independent UK

In ‘Thirteen Lives,’ Ron Howard directs the Thai cave rescue

Ron Howard learned years ago on “Apollo 13” that knowing the outcome of a story is different from knowing the story itself

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