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If you feel the need to watch a faith film, you could do far, far worse than this one, a decently staged musical treatment of the nativity that feels like a Christian version of a live action Disney movie. Mary (Fiona Palomo) is a heroine in the mould of Belle from Beauty and the Beast or Jasmine from Aladdin: bookish and dreaming of a world in which she gets to make her own life decisions, instead of being married off to some guy called Joseph (Milo Manheim) whom she’s never met. Luckily, he turns out to be quite puckish…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAntonio Banderas has said that his heart attack was “one of the best things that happened” in his life.The Spanish actor explained that the shock experience in 2017 had helped to give him a better perspective on his life.Banderas raised the subject while discussing his new film, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish where he plays the cat we first meet in Shrek 2 in 2004.The new film sees the…

Antonio Banderas is a class act but there’s only so much class he can reasonably be expected to supply. Taking what was presumably an attractive paycheque, Banderas stars in a movie whose essential personality could only be appreciated if Blockbuster Video were to be brought back to life, just for one week, so this could be placed in the straight-to-video bin next to every till.Veteran screenwriter W Peter Ilff (who co-wrote Point Break) has dug this one out of his desk drawer and Australian adman-turned-film-maker…

Shrek, was a cultural phenomenon, a meme machine, a formative film for many (myself included), and it’s always exciting when we get more stories from Far, Far Away, even 20+ years after the first film's release. So far there have been four installments in the Shrek franchise, with various spin-offs here and there, like Antonio Banderas’ solo outings as Puss in Boots, but the question of Shrek 5 still remains. Lucky for us, the actor behind the iconic cat is opening up about the likelihood of a fifth film. Banderas was…

Although Harrison Ford’s Dr. Henry Jones Jr. will reunite with John Rhys-Davies’ Sallah, next summer, most of the Indiana Jones 5 cast is comprised of new faces. This includes Antonio Banderas, an actor who’s no stranger to adventure moves thanks to his outings as Zorro, voicing Puss in Boots and starring in Uncharted. Now we finally have some details straight from Banderas himself on how he fits into Indiana Jones 5, which will be Ford’s final time playing the fedora-wearing title protagonist.We learned that Antonio…

Image: LucasfilmJon Kasdan talks about the importance of the Willow RPG and Ghostbusters 2 to the new series. Jeffrey Dean Morgan teases his arrival on The Boys. Plus, Terry Matalas talks about making Picard’s final season feel even more like Star Trek: The Next Generation. To me, my spoilers!Indiana Jones 5Antonio Banderas revealed to Collider his role in Indiana Jones 5 is “almost a cameo.” My character is very little; it’s almost a cameo. He’s just a friend of Indiana’s character, and he’s looking for him because he…

It appears that Antonio Banderas trusts his Unchartered co-star Tom Holland so much that he would let him portray one of his most iconic characters. The Puss in Boots actor, 62, shared screen space with the Spider-Man star, 26, in director Reuben Fleisher’s action adventure that released earlier this year. During a recent interview, Banderas was asked if he would be interested in reprising his role as Zorro in the follow-up to the 1998 hit, The Mask of Zorro. Also Read: Shakira’s legal wrangle…

Legacy sequels to continue to be in vogue, and given the lack of franchises the studio has at its disposal, we’re a little surprised that Sony hasn’t yet opted to take a crack at a third Zorro. It’s been 24 years since Antonio Banderas first donned the mask in Martin Campbell’s phenomenal opening installment, and 17 since he returned for the vastly inferior sequel. The leading man might be 62 years of age, but that’s younger than Anthony Hopkins was in The Mask of Zorro, so a potential threequel could mark a fitting…

Antonio Banderas owes his life to a drag queen. “It was 1976,” says the 59-year-old Spanish star. “And the front wheel of my motorbike went into a ditch and, boom! I hit a car and my head hit the tank. Bam! Then this person” – he poofs up an imaginary wig, smoothes down an imaginary dress – “who was working a corner for clients, came from nowhere, got in the middle of the road and stopped a car to take me to hospital.” He rolls up his trousers to reveal a scar on his calf. “The kick stand got me here. Blood everywhere.…

via Sony Quentin Tarantino talks about a lot of projects he’s working on that never end up getting made, and with the two-time Academy Award winner sticking to his guns about his next feature film being his last, we can forget about seeing them in live-action. However, the writer and director has been dabbling in other forms of media recently, so perhaps we could see several of his abandoned efforts brought to life as novels, comic books, plays, scripted podcasts, or maybe even TV shows. Either way, one that any…