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Batman: Assault On Arkham DVD review . This animated movie is set in the Arkham videogame universe during the five year gap between Arkham Origins and Arkham Asylum , but aside from the name the two share little DNA. There’s no consistency in character design, for example; Amanda Waller seems …

Shep Gordon is the greatest talent manager you’ve never heard of, not to mention a raconteur, bon viveur and all-round jammy bastard. That’s if you believe the hype of this wildly entertaining documentary co-directed by Mike Myers. But when it’s the likes of Michael Douglas and Sylvester Stallone doing the …

Acclaimed Filipino director Lav Diaz has made films ranging between five and eight hours, so his latest, clocking in at a mere four-hours-and-10-minutes, and his first in colour, is a walk in the park. A transposition of Dostoevsky’s Crime And Punishment , it sees disillusioned intellectual Fabian (Sid Lucero) commit …

Ronan Keating’s tattooed torso plays a supporting role in this winsome comedy, a saccharine-sweet affair whose modest charms come so thickly coated in treacle it should probably carry a health warning. Case in point? The ‘sink song’ webcam vids Keating’s bored wife (Laura Michelle Kelly) posts online while he’s off …

Talal Derki’s Sundance Jury Prize-winning doc, shot over two years, provides an unflinching insider’s view of the Syrian conflict which has killed thousands and forced millions from their homes since 2011. Focusing on a small band of rebels led by charismatic national football player Abdul Basset Al-Sarout, extraordinary frontline footage …

Sand book review . There’s no doubt that Hugh Howey can really write. Anyone who breaks through from the clamour of the self-publication sector, as Howey famously did with the novellas that eventually made up his dystopic Woo l, arguably has to be a better storyteller than those boasting the …

Coming on like a feature-length Foster’s advert, Boyd Hickin’s genial man-com stars Stephen Curry as a sadsack Melbourne chap who lives in his mate’s garage and plays cricket with an enthusiasm bordering on mania. When his team, the Abbotsford Anglers, get a chance to tour India he jumps at it, …

Ray Doewood never asked for the power to read minds, he was fine with his mundane life as a hardhat tester. But when he’s ironically hit on the head on his way home one night, an alien fugitive decides Ray’s brain is the best place to take refuge. With a …

Troubled teen Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) thinks she’s found the perfect surrogate when she begins babysitting for new neighbour Linda (Jessica Biel), the spitting image of her dead mother. Yet Linda has secrets of her own… Francesca Gregorini’s film stands or falls on a central mystery as silly as it is …

Groundhog Day (opens in new tab)-meets- Starship Troopers (opens in new tab)is the pitch for Doug Liman’s first foray into sci-fi since the disastrous 2008’s Jumper (opens in new tab)saw a would-be franchise unravel before it got going. Thankfully this smart, taut actioner is of the standard we usually expect …