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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, …

With Doctor Strange casting rumours continuing to come thick and fast, Deadline reports that Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch are two of the names on Marvel’s current shortlist. With Scott Derrickson now officially confirmed as director on the project, Marvel is keen to get things moving on the casting front, …

A new poster has arrived online for Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes , in which Caesar mounts up to lead his troops into battle. Clutching some heavy-duty firepower and riding his horse like a pro, it’s clear that the ten intervening years since the first film have seen …

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 …

Marvel is certainly moving quickly on its Daredevil TV series this week. Having installed Steven S. DeKnight as the new showrunner , the studio has now cast Brit star Charlie Cox as the man without fear. The studio made the announcement soon after the casting rumour hit the internet yesterday …

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 …

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty-inspired new movie Maleficent opens in cinemas this week, so we caught up with stars Elle Fanning and Sam Riley to talk all things fairytale. According to them, despite co-starring with a scary-looking Angelina Jolie as the titular bad fairy, the set wasn’t as scary as you might …

Despite its lunges of violence, fractured family relationships and coarsely handsome visuals, David Michod’s follow-up to his acclaimed debut, Animal Kingdom , is an altogether different beast. Set in an impoverished near-future ’10 years after the collapse’, it opens with the steely-eyed, close-mouthed Eric (Guy Pearce) squinting at a desolate …

J.J. Abrams has spoken from the set of Star Wars: Episode VII in a video that also gives us a first glimpse at the film’s special effects. Yep, we’ve seen our first creature on a Star Wars: Episode VII set, which is just a bit exciting. He’s even carrying several …

With cameras finally rolling on Star Wars: Episode VII , the steady stream of casting and plot-point rumours have gradually ground to a halt, but fortunately, we’re now at the stage where the first images are emerging from the production. Today’s nugget isn’t a new on-set image, but rather a …