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Remaking John Sturges’ crowdpleaser – a western beloved by even those normally left saddle sore by the genre – might be considered sacrilege… except that the hallowed 1960 picture is itself a remake. Sturges transposed Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai from Japan to Mexico, with a septet of sharpshooters …

It takes a brave man to make a feature film out of a British sitcom – and a braver one still to make one out of a British sitcom that hasn’t been on TV for 13 years. Thankfully, David Brent: Life on the Road gives Ricky Gervais’ monstrous middle manager …

Cast and crew gave each other tattoos. Writer/director David Ayer (Training Day (opens in new tab), Fury (opens in new tab)), an ex-Navy man, used military tactics to reduce his cast to a state of physical and mental exhaustion. A psychiatrist was available on set. Cara Delevingne, playing a witch, …

Largely dismissed as an artistic and commercial disappointment – despite landing a Best Song Oscar nod for Helen Reddy tearjerker ‘Candle on the Water’ – 1977’s Pete’s Dragon might seem an odd choice to receive a CGI makeover. But not half as odd as the Mouse House handing the directorial …

If you’ve ever thought that one of those Escape Rooms, where you’re locked in with buddies and have to solve puzzles to win your freedom, sounded like fun, then Zero Time Dilemma is right up your alley. Its version of escape rooms comes with rather more murder, but the core …

It was somewhere between rescuing a burly American moe-obsessive dressed like a Saturday morning cartoon version of a Gwar member and helping a friend audition for a role in a TV procedural about a magical sneezing detective directed by Kuen Taranchino that I realized something: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE shouldn’t …

Most shooters cast you as a one man war striding into battle on a cloud of bullets, carving a path through the enemy like an angry lawnmower with guns. Homefront is a bit more like ringing the soldier’s doorbell and then running away. It’s all set in an America invaded …

“At least we all agree, the third one is always the worst,” concludes Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), leaving the multiplex after seeing Return of the Jedi (opens in new tab) with her fellow Gifted Youngsters.  It’s a bold gag, but X-Men: Apocalypse never quite disproves her assertion. That’s not to …

“At least we all agree, the third one is always the worst,” concludes Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), leaving the multiplex after seeing Return of the Jedi (opens in new tab) with her fellow Gifted Youngsters.  It’s a bold gag, but X-Men: Apocalypse never quite disproves her assertion. That’s not to …

Superhot appears almost too simple at first glance. Every one of its white, texture-less stages give off a feeling of clinical, cold sterility; each of the red, faceless crystal ‘guys’ you gun down shatters into a thousand unfeeling pieces. Even its gameplay is stripped down to minimalist essentials, giving you …