Ryan Leston
Location
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Expertise
Movies, TV, Comics
- Ryan is a freelance movie journalist and film critic.
- He's previously written for entertainment sites such as Yahoo! Movies, NME, and IGN, as well as British print publications, The Guardian and The Telegraph.
- He has covered numerous industry events during his career, including the Oscars, BAFTAs, San Diego Comic Con, Star Wars Celebration and several prominent film festivals.
Experience
Ryan has worked as a film journalist for almost ten years, starting with Yahoo! Movies back in 2012. He specialised in pop culture entertainment, covering breaking Star Wars and Comic Book Movie news before stepping up to cover movies in general. He has written for numerous film publications including IGN, NME and Digital Spy among others, and has been published in the UK print publications, The Guardian and The Telegraph. He also works as a film critic, recently covering the 78th Venice Film Festival and has attended numerous junkets and red carpet events, including the Oscars, BAFTAs and others. His passion for movies was encouraged by a local video store owner as a teen, and he has gone on to pursue a career writing about film.
Education
Ryan has a bachelor's degree in Creative & Professional Writing from the University of South Wales as well as a Masters in News Journalism from Cardiff University.
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Stories By Ryan Leston
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Tom Cruise has played iconic roles in both sci-f and action films, but has yet to make his MCU debut. We think any of these characters would be a perfect fit.
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Highway to the danger zone!
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The third Moon Knight alter ego, Jake Lockley, might have appeared earlier than you think.
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Revered director Steven Spielberg wasn't always so, well, revered.
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Studio confidence in Spider-Man was so low that Sony reluctantly bought the movie rights for just $7 million in 1998.
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They may be the Bad Guys, but they're not *bad* guys.
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Horrors abound in Hereditary, but there's a whole lot more to it than that.
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Hawkins, Indiana is now home to some of the weirdest tales you can find in the American Midwest.
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A world-famous comedian taught a world-famous filmmaker a valuable lesson.
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While the rift between the two Joker stars may not have been serious, it was no laughing matter, either.
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'The brilliance of Wes Anderson is that his characters are complicated.'
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Iko Uwais delivers bone-crunching action in Gareth Evans' hit movie The Raid, but unfortunately for those involved, that's because some of it was real!
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'Time Lords have this little trick, it's sort of a way of cheating death, except, it means I'm gonna change.'
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'We needed to throw everything we could at the script as fast as we could.'
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Why didn't Terrence Howard return for Iron Man 2? That's a question Howard himself had been asking for years.
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Okay, so what's going on with the Morbius post-credit scenes?
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Choose or Die, a new horror flick coming to Netflix next month, is kind of like a haunted version of the new Jumanji movies. (Kind of.)
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You've heard that voice before.
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It's tough for a man who looks like THAT to have a body double.
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Let's talk about the ending, and what it means for a third season.
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The new streaming series looks to be a loose adaptation of the classic video game series.
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The Adam Project features a weapon that director Shawn Levy swears is not a lightsaber, but it does bear a resemblance. Here's how the movie avoided a lawsuit.
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The scene in question is part of the film's incredible opening sequence — the greatest in Bond history. And it has a surprising inspiration.
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Phoenix said no to Doctor Strange, but he expressed interest in a future MCU role. Which Marvel character should he play? We've got a few ideas...
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"Kill Bill" is one of the best American martial art films in existence, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the performers underwent intense training.
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Landmark American crime drama "The Sopranos" is renowned for its authenticity. And there's a reason the show rang so true to life.