George Saunders’s dark, challenging sci-fi story has its edges sanded off in the streamer’s new Chris Hemsworth-starring adaptation. For a company that built its name shaking up an entire industry, Netflix is starting to seem decidedly risk-averse, writes Louis Chilton
As the last film in the franchise, ‘Carry on Columbus’, turns 30, Geoffrey Macnab looks back on what made the innuendo-filled, bawdy movies so popular – and whether they would stand up today
James Mangold’s 1997 New Jersey-set police thriller starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro was supposed to be the new ‘Goodfellas’ but, as its director-writer tells Geoffrey Macnab, it was beset by problems caused by its executive producer, Harvey Weinstein
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