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“The little band who couldn’t” is the affectingly bittersweet hook for Drew DeNicola’s loving doc about the almost-rise, demise and rediscovery of early ’70s US alt-pop beauties Big Star. Critics, musos and family members pop up to revere a band who spun melancholy into magic over three albums, before bad …

With no bells, whistles or fanfare, the Dardenne brothers – Jean-Pierre and Luc – have been writing, producing and directing their own brand of Belgian naturalism since the ’90s. Before that they made documentaries. Ignored by the multiplexes, but loved by the critics, their modest, moving films sound eminently missable. …

A new teaser has arrived online for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For , in which Eva Green vamps it up as the film’s premiere femme fatale. This new video establishes her link to Josh Brolin’s Dwight, and includes a snippet of their potentially censor-bothering sex scene, before she …

Praise the lords Lets get one thing out of the way right now. Lords of the Fallen is a lot like Dark Souls. Its a brutally hard, dark, medieval-styled action-RPG in which merciless enemies combine with a iterative gameplay loop in order to teach mastery by way of many, many …

SFX recently had the chance to chat with Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, screenwriters of Captain America – The Winter Soldier and the talent now shaping the shield-slinger’s third big screen adventure. Here’s what they had to say about conspiracies, comic books and whether the Falcon could ever step into …

I don’t know about you, but when I played Rollercoaster Tycoon, my goal was always to create the most insane, death-defying loops, and then send my patrons flying off the track as fast as possible. Microsoft and Frontier seems to get this, and has announced Screamride during their Gamescom 2014 …

The controversial career of arms trader Viktor Bout was fictionalised in 2005’s Lord Of War , but truth trumps fiction in Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s enthralling doc. Centred on Bout’s entrapment and trial by America, the directors dare to ponder how villainous this “merchant of death” was. Such sympathy …

Written by Dutch Southern and steeped in Jim Thompson-style noir, Simon and Zeke Hawkins’ low-budget debut shows genuine promise. When Texan teen B.J. (Logan Huffman) steals the local psycho’s money for one last hurrah with best friend Bobby (Jeremy Allen White) and girlfriend Sue (Mackenzie Davis), he lands everyone in …

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 …

The Dark Knight – Six Flags, USA The Ride: A family-friendly ‘Wild Mouse’ roller coaster, The Dark Knight is a dark ride (it’s indoors) located at the Six Flags theme parks in the U.S. The Movie Connection: The ride story hooks in neatly to the movie (the ride launched to …