With ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ arriving in cinemas, Joe Ellison explores the discreet emergence of state-sponsored messaging in everything from Russian epics and ‘Captain Marvel’ to the army ads that seem to always play before your film starts
As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at fighter jet films, and says if it hadn’t been for directors like Howard Hawks and Howard Hughes who reached for the sky before him, Cruise’s Top Gun films would never even have left the ground
After the announcement that Geoffrey Rush is starring in a new biopic, ‘Raised Eyebrows’, about Groucho Marx in his declining years, Geoffrey Macnab looks back on what made him one of America’s greatest comedians
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