The first image has appeared online from Jay Roach’s Trumbo , featuring Bryan Cranston as the titular screenwriter who cracked the Hollywood blacklist. The film will tell the real-life story of Dalton Trumbo, the world’s highest-paid screenwriter back in 1950, who found himself thrown in prison for refusing to answer …

The feature debut of Irish director brothers Rob and Ronan Burke, Standby is a gentle, funny rom-com for which the term ‘heart-warming’ might have been coined. Alan (Brian Gleeson, son of Brendan) lives a dead-end life, manning the tourist-info desk at Dublin airport, when back into his life swims Alice …

Jessica Chastain has revealed that a meeting has taken place with Marvel over an undisclosed role, although the star has confirmed it is not Captain Marvel. “We’ve talked about aligning our forces in the future,” Chastain told MTV (opens in new tab) of her relationship with the studio. “And here’s …

Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs biopic just can’t seem to catch a break, with THR (opens in new tab) reporting that leading man Christian Bale has now dropped out of the production. According to the report, Bale withdrew from the role of Apple’s co-founder just one week after being “confirmed” by …

There’s a bit at the beginning of Gears of War, appropriately referenced in our feature on inappropriate jump-scares (opens in new tab), in which Epic’s inaugural chainsaw carnival wrong-foots you with a hint that it might be a horror game. After trekking through Marcus’ deserted, decaying prison for a little …

Wait dreaming no longer! Hallowe’en is a special time of year. So special, in fact, that we couldn’t let our celebratory Halloweek go by without making a very special effort to do a very special thing indeed. To that end, we’ve resurrected the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft, master of fevered …

If you hadn’t heard, Nintendo released two new versions of its 3DS handheld system in Japan earlier this month–search-engine-confoundingly named New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS LL (aka XL). So how come Old Nintendo 3DS owners in the US and Europe aren’t gritting their teeth this very moment, internally …

Scream Rocket Torture–that most brutal application of pain–was first discovered by an unwitting ‘Adam 1’ in the biblical Garden of Eden. After accidentally pulling out a lock of Eve’s precious hair, Earth’s first woman quickly reciprocated with the old ‘bamboo up the fingernails’ treatment, followed by several hours of ‘electro-sponge’ …

Marvel has reacted to DC’s recent announcement of forthcoming films by unveiling a mammoth slate of Phase 3 projects, including release dates for Black Panther , Captain Marvel and more. Phase 3 will get underway with the release of Captain America: Civil War on 6 May 2016, followed later that …

Ethan Hawke is adding an interesting role to his filmography – he’s starring as jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in a biopic that has just started shooting in Canada. Hawke has worked closely on the development of the project, which could put him in line for awards chatter, given how biopics …