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Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them could be on the brink of landing a director, with Alfonso Cuarón reportedly in talks to helm the project. According to reporter Nikki Finke, the Oscar-winning director is “deep in talks” with Warner, having previously directed third film in the …

John Turturro’s fifth film as director comes with a gilt-edged premise: Woody Allen as a would-be pimp, touting Turturro’s reluctant gigolo to horny Manhattan housewives (led by Sharon Stone). It’s tailor-made for Allen; not only is he as funny as he’s been in years, he and Turturro make a wonderful …

Exciting news for film fans, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street is available to buy right now – which means in a few easy steps you can be watching it on your laptop / iPad / whatever-you-want, via iTunes (opens in new tab) , Blinkbox (opens in new tab) …

Dating from 1962, Ozu’s sublime final film (and one of his only two in colour) plays variations on his perennial themes of marriage and inter-generational tensions. Chisû Ryû, Ozu’s favourite actor, is the elderly widower who comes to wonder if he’s being selfish in relying on his unmarried daughter to …

Subtlety and restraint aren’t words you tend to associate with tentpole blockbusters, particularly not those featuring hulking great monsters. The latest incarnation of Toho’s iconic kaiju might be the tallest ever, clocking in at around 350ft, but the movie itself isn’t afraid to build to the stomping with baby-steps, favouring …

It’s almost exactly a year since Troma announced they were in talks with Arnold Schwarzenegger to appear in the Toxic Avenger remake (opens in new tab) , and it would appear those talks are still ongoing. When we asked Schwarzenegger about the project during a recent Sabotage junket, he said …

No stranger to wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, has landed a role in Terminator: Genesis . Game Of Thrones director Alan Taylor is to head up the sequel which is intended to be the first of a brand new Terminator trilogy. Smith is reportedly taking on a …

The first clip from X-Men: Days Of Future Past has arrived online, in which Mystique infiltrates Boliver Trask’s briefing on his latest anti-mutant gadget. The fact that said gadget is a Mutant Finder means that her cover doesn’t last for long, but by that point, she’s already where she needs …

Hans Gruber Die Hard (1988) The Character: One of the most charismatic and marvellously evil baddies of 80s cinema – the tower block-seizing German terrorist intent on destroying John McClane. The Beard: 80s Wall Street chic. Strokability: Sure, he’d likely you fling you out a 40 storey window shortly after, …

Scream 2 (1998) The Moment: Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and Dewey (David Arquette) watch a tape in a campus lecture hall, only to discover that it’s footage shot by the Ghostface killer of all of his victims thus far. Why It’s Great: The final shot of this grisly montage is …