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We spoke to Scott Adkins about awesome martial arts epic Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear (out on DVD and Blu-ray on May 12 – expect a feature on the site soon) and while we had him, we decided to ask about another epic martial arts franchise, The Raid . If …

There are three certainties you can count on in life: death, taxes, and Dynasty Warriors. The famous button-mashing hack-n-slasher is known less for its innovation between titles and more for releasing a new, slightly upgraded edition every handful of months. The latest iteration in the series is (deep breath) Dynasty …

UPDATE: We’ve spoken to Sony, the Bond 24 teaser is indeed a fake – just as we thought. Expect an official announcement soon. For the full story so far, see below. Bit of a strange one this. We’ve received a press release announcing the title of Bond 24 – which …

Making high-quality video games ain’t cheap. If you aren’t some massive corporation putting millions of dollars behind a project, chances are you’re scraping together anything you can to get a game finished and out the door. Such is life for the indie developer. The costs of making an engine from …

Who’ll follow 2013 winner Chris Beckett ? (opens in new tab) The shortlist for the 2014 Arthur C Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel of the year 2014 have just been announced. The books in contention are: God’s War by Kameron Hurley (Del Rey) The Disestablishment of Paradise …

After years of rumours and speculation, Ivan Reitman has confirmed that he will not direct Ghostbusters 3 . The director of comedy classics like Kindergarten Cop, Junior, Twins and the previous two Ghostbusters movies will leave the project, but will stay on-board to help Sony’s Amy Pascal find a new …

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 …

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 …

A version of this article originally posted February 21, 2013. Part man. Part machine. All ninja Once upon a time, the term cyborg called to mind man-machine combinations like Robocop. Those augmented humans boasted the firepower of tanks, but had the limited mobility to match. Flash forward to today, where …

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 …