📽️ Tolkien meets Zulu: why the Battle of Helm’s Deep almost ruined Peter Jackson.

Furious studio bosses, tight budgets, wet and miserable actors…

Making The Two Towers' hellish 40-minute siege scene was a battle in itself, writes Ed Power.

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telegraph.co.uk/films/0/tolkie… From his vantage point high above Dry Creek Quarry, Peter Jackson was king of all he surveyed.

He was s getting into the business end of his adaption of the Tolkien novels. All around him – hour by torturous hour – the epic battle of Helm’s Deep was unfolding.

How Bend It Like Beckham changed British culture.

The coming-of-age film shaped how society viewed the Indian diaspora – and women's football. Those it inspired reveal their stories 👇

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telegraph.co.uk/films/2022/04/… What finally made women’s professional football compete with the men’s game?

The Lionesses certainly helped, as did society’s push to champion female role models post-#MeToo.

👉 The third reason is perhaps more surprising: Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 hit, Bend It Like Beckham

❌ Why Will Smith snapped.

As Hollywood reels from the actor’s violent Oscars outburst, we uncover the deep-rooted tensions that led up to it. 👇

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telegraph.co.uk/films/2022/03/… Will Smith has a therapist, and she has a name for his nice-guy persona: Uncle Fluffy. “Fluffy was jovial, talented, smart, generous. Uncle Fluffy needed everyone to like him,” Smith writes in his memoir.

➡️ At the Oscars on Sunday night, Uncle Fluffy abruptly left the building

❓How did the smack, which will go down in Hollywood history, come about?

From Chris Rock’s past digs at Jada Pinkett Smith to how Will Smith will handle his new reputation, this is how it went down 🧵👇
telegraph.co.uk/films/0/will-s… 📅Chris Rock and the Smiths have known each other since 1995, when Rock starred alongside Smith in a dual cameo on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Rock cross-dressed as the two sisters Maurice and Jasmine who Smith had to take on a date to keep his job

🏆 It's Oscars day!

Ahead of tonight's ceremony here are @robbiereviews's predictions for Best Actress, Director and more ⬇️

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telegraph.co.uk/films/2022/03/… 🎞️'The 2022 Oscar season has largely been a sedate old affair – But then, on March 13, the Baftas happened'.

'The picture painted by these precursor ceremonies was very different to what many had expected to see...'

So, who will get the gongs tonight? 👇

From a job in Sainsbury’s to a $1.9 billion film and now an Oscar nod – @robbiereviews finds out how Andrew Garfield conquered Hollywood

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telegraph.co.uk/films/0/andrew… At 21, Garfield was renting a room in “a mouse-infested flat” in north-west London, and making ends meet behind the Starbucks counter in a nearby branch of Sainsbury’s.

His proudest gig to date was a Doritos advert where he played air guitar with a tortilla chip

🎬Twenty years after the film’s release, @TheTomFordy explores how Black Hawk Down is still considered one of the most accurate depictions of modern war.

But some critics say it distorts the context of the battle

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telegraph.co.uk/films/0/black-… 🗣️Ridley Scott had said he intended to “take [the viewers] into a war that they would normally never experience.”

The film’s technical advisers included Colonel Tom Mathews, who had led a unit of the 160th SOAR into Mogadishu

☄️In Netflix's star-studded new film Don’t Look Up, astronomers discover that a new comet is speeding towards Earth

❓But, would a nine-kilometre comet really give us six months to live?

Here's Nasa's verdict ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/films/0/dont-l… 🚀Dr Amy Mainzer is a professor of planetary science at University of Arizona, and principal investigator of Nasa's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Neowise) mission.

➡️She served as scientific adviser on the film

📽️On-screen romances between old men and young women are the norm.

But in 2003, The Mother tried something different when Daniel Craig starred alongside Anne Reid, 32 years his senior.

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telegraph.co.uk/films/0/daniel… Examine the average age gap between James Bond and his love interests, and it’s the pattern that’s the problem.

📸LMK

🍿Put down the popcorn and crack open the marmalade...

📽️Paddington 2 has been named the best film of all time.

@susiegolds explains why this cinematic masterpiece has finally got the recognition it deserves

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telegraph.co.uk/films/0/rotten… 🧸The story of the little bear from Darkest Peru discovered on a train station platform by the good-natured Brown family has captured the hearts of millions

📽️This month it knocked Citizen Kane off the top spot on Rotten Tomatoes