Like Jane Austen in Tel Aviv, Rama Burshtein’s debut is a warm, watchful slant on marital mores in an ultraorthodox Jewish community. Our torn heroine is Shira (Hadas Yaron), an 18-year-old urged to wed new dad Yochay (Yiftach Klein) when his wife, Shira’s sister, dies. The resulting pickle may seem …

Michael Bay has responded angrily to reports that he had “apologised” for elements of the Transformers films, and has clarified his comments on the visual style of the new film. “No I did not ‘apologise’ for any of the Transformers movies,” says Bay on his official blog. “I did not …

Ben Affleck has commented on his casting as Batman in a lengthy interview with Playboy magazine, in which he explains that his version of the character will not attempt to compete with Christian Bale’s. “I don’t want to give away too much, but the idea for the new Batman is …

Adapting her own short story Virginia Gilbert directs this whimsical drama about two British couples that meet in rural France. Husband and wife Joseph (James Fox) and Brenda (Brenda Fricker) have long since slipped into staid retirement, but a chance meeting sees Joseph become gently infatuated with arty twentysomething Suzanne …

Though he’s been as prolific as ever over the last seven years (from Katrina and Michael Jackson docs to 2012 religious drama Red Hook Summer ), Oldboy marks Spike Lee’s first UK cinema release since 2006’s Inside Man . Sadly, this remake of Park Chan-wook’s revered revenger isn’t the comeback …

Following the 50th anniversary of the good Doctor, top SF author Alastair Reynolds writes for SFX about his admiration for the show (opens in new tab) Alastair Reynolds is a scientist and science fiction author, famous for, among many others, his Revelation Space series of novels. In 2009 he signed …

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Let us know what you think about Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary episode, and your comments could live forever in a future issue of SFX (opens in new tab) SFX ’s letters pages feature a regular section called Hot Topic , where we invite you to comment on the burning sci-fi …

Online functionality is not common in the Zelda series, but as mentioned in our Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds review, the latest entry actually uses the 3DS StreePass for online battles. Taking on other Zelda players is fun, but getting everything set up can be tricky, plus there …

Paranormal Activity (2009) The Movie Life Lesson: If you happen to live in a haunted house, you’ll fall sound asleep every night. Why It’s Impossible In Real Life: No one with any semblance of smarts would stay in a haunted house, home to a demon with a penchant for tearing …