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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 …

Ever since David Fincher claimed to have changed the ending of Gone Girl for his big-screen adaptation of the bestselling novel, there have been outraged fans demanding to know exactly what has been altered from the source material. Now, Fincher has always been an idiosyncratic character, and when asked to …

Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89 at her home in New York, after a big-screen career that spanned seven decades. The news was broken by the Bogart estate, with the statement: “With deep sorrow for the magnitude of our loss, yet with great gratitude for her amazing …

MGM and Paramount are set to begin casting their remake of swords-and-sandals classic, Ben-Hur , with Tom Hiddleston thought to be in line for the title role. Deadline reports that Hiddleston is the studios’ first choice for the role, with contact thought to have been made, albeit in a preliminary …

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 …

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 …

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles might only have been open in the US for a week, but Paramount has already seen enough to confirm an official release date for the sequel. According to Deadline , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 will open in the US on 3 June 2016, with Paramount …

Eli Roth’s forthcoming cannibal drama The Green Inferno looks to have hit a fairly major snag, with distributor Open Road Films having postponed the film’s release. Deadline reports that the delay is a result of financier Worldview Entertainment getting cold feet over the publicity commitment struck by its former CEO, …

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 …