Tag Archives: Historical

Persuasion, the Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, is out in selected cinemas today before it arrives on the streamer next week – and the reviews are in.  The movie sees Dakota Johnson star as Anne Elliot, a young woman living with her snobby family who are on the …

The DC Universe has seen its fair share of Crises, including the current Dark Crisis, but none are more iconic than 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. That’s why it’s the endpoint for Mark Russell and Mike Allred’s Superman: Space Age, a three-part limited series that explores Superman’s life in the …

“If it had been made up, it might have seemed a bit too much, actually,” Colin Firth tells Total Film. We’re discussing the real-life events that inspired the actor’s latest movie, Operation Mincemeat, a World War II story about two British intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew …

You’ve started watching Vikings: Valhalla – or want to, anyway. There is, however, an unfortunate roadblock getting in the way: Valhalla is a sequel to the series Vikings which aired on The History Channel and Amazon Prime Video. Should you watch Vikings seasons 1-6 before starting Valhalla on Netflix? It’s …

Jack Quaid is the latest actor to join the star-studded cast of Oppenheimer, the next movie from Christopher Nolan, Deadline (opens in new tab) reports, as Universal Studios officially confirms the film’s cast.  Cillian Murphy will star as Robert Oppenheimer, the man who developed the atom bomb. Oppenheimer was an …

Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy has teased a dark final season for the hit show – “dark as fuck,” in fact, is how the actor described it in an interview with Esquire (opens in new tab). Murphy plays Tommy Shelby, part of the notorious Shelby crime in interwar Birmingham. But …

A new month means new movies and shows on Netflix – and we’re spoilt for choice this February. When it comes to Netflix Originals, there are plenty of new series to get stuck into. Historical epic Vikings: Valhalla arrives on our screens this month, along with drama Inventing Anna, which is …

Anthony Mackie is set to star in Desert Warrior, a new historical epic from Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt, Deadline (opens in new tab) reports.  Set in 7th Century Arabia, the movie will follow a princess (Aiysha Hart) who is forced to escape from the …

New images have revealed the first look at SAS: Rogue Heroes, the new TV show from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.  SAS: Rogue Heroes is set in Cairo, Egypt, in 1941 and follows the formation of the UK’s Special Air Service (AKA the SAS), a unit that specializes in things …

The first trailer for Vikings’ spin-off Vikings: Valhalla has been released by Netflix, with the series confirmed to be coming in 2022. Vikings: Valhalla is set 100 years after the History Channel’s original series, at a time when the Vikings had overrun England, taken control of Normandy in France, and …