I am one with my aircraft. Piloting through the mustard-colored skies, I weave a parabolic path through a seemingly endless array of bullets, bombs, and bandits. I cut my engines, let my jet plummet to the ground like a lead weight, training my sights on my prey. With a squeeze …

In our regular polarising-opinion series, Total Film writer Paul Bradshaw asks, ‘Is it just me? … or was The Lone Ranger the best movie of last summer? Waterworld. Cutthroat Island. John Carter. All more successful than last summer’s $250m runaway train, The Lone Ranger . Worse still, everyone knew it …

If you hadn’t heard of Cheap Thrills , just know this – it’s the movie that stunned last year’s FrightFest. A dark horror comedy, it revolves around a simple conceit with countless perverse possibilities. Faced with eviction and redundancy, a struggling family man heads to the bar and meets up …