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The first official trailer for Terry Gilliam’s latest mind-melting offering The Zero Theorem has landed on the internet and it already looks enticingly bizarre. The Zero Theorem spent a lot of last year doing the rounds at various festivals, and some footage was released from the film for a short …

The casting news for Warner Bros’ new live-action Peter Pan movie keeps on coming: the studio has announced that Hugh Jackman has said “aye aye” to playing Blackbeard in the film. The Wolverine (opens in new tab) star joins Garrett Hedlund, who it was announced last week will be playing …

The best sports films are less about sport than sportspeople. As the calibre of filmmakers – J.J. Abrams, Stephen Frears, Jay Roach – also planning movies about Lance Armstrong suggests, Alex Gibney’s documentary has a corker in cycling’s fallen angel. It might have been good enough had Gibney made his …

In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s decision to shelve his next movie (opens in new tab) , Western The Hateful Eight , after its script leaked, new details about the project have surfaced online. According to The Wrap , the script for The Hateful Eight is split into five chapters, …

Marvel has taken advantage of the Warner Bros’ delayed Batman Vs Superman (opens in new tab) movie and moved up the release of Ant-Man (opens in new tab) to 17 July 2015. Edgar Wright’s comic-book adaptation of Ant-Man , starring Paul Rudd as the title character, with Michael Douglas recently …

Another trailer for Gareth Evans’ unrelenting martial arts sequel The Raid 2 has landed on the interwebs, and with it comes another look at the film’s incredibly fast-paced fist-fighting. Whereas the first film took place almost entirely within one tower block, this follow-up opens out the action to the whole …

No hard feelings might’ve been a more appropriate title for this unpunchy dramedy. Not only do the combatants fail to muster much animosity for one another, they also seem incapable of incurring anyone else’s wrath, regardless of their cock-ups. What good is a boxing flick that’s unkeen on conflict? The …

More than any other festival, Sundance has acted as the launchpad for some of the most interesting, cool and uniquely voiced directors of modern cinema. This year, it could just be writer and first time director Maya Forbes who kickstarts her major movie career, thanks to the sweet, warm, funny …

12 Years A Slave has been named Best Picture at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, with Lupita Nyong’o also winning Best Supporting Actress and John Ridley scooping Best Adapted Screenplay. The Critics’ Choice Best Picture has corresponded with Best Picture at the Oscars six years out of the last seven, …

Kiefer Sutherland has been discussing the status of the 24 movie during promotion for 24: Live Another Day , the new 12-episode series that will begin production in the next few weeks. And when asked whether the forthcoming series would be telling the story initially earmarked for the movie, Sutherland …