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You’d hope that, emboldened by the success of its predecessor, Red 2 would come out swinging. Instead, it opens with a shot of a Costco sign, rubbing our faces in the fact this isn’t the product of creative vision but rather a proven seller intended to pad some coffers. Inside …

Ex-model Pippa (Daisy Lowe) – a recluse after a disfiguring accident – has her sanctuary shattered when bitchy crim Kayleigh (Eliza H. Bennett) gatecrashes her flat. Tobias Tobbell’s micro-budget thriller aims high, with nods to Panic Room and Repulsion . But this is yet another under-powered, clichéd Brit-crime fiasco. A …

Over the last few weeks, a rumour has been steadily building that all may not be well behind the scenes of Star Wars: Episode VII . The problem as reported, has revolved around the fact that Abrams is unwilling to shoot the movie in the UK, as it would involve …

Book Of Eli (2010) The Brawl: Martz (Evan Jones) takes offence to Eli (Denzel Washington) shooing a cat off a bar, and just won’t drop the subject – until Eli confronts him in typically bloody fashion. Coolest Scrap: When things get out of hand, Eli uses a machete to hack …

Fox has yet to conduct its official panel at this year’s Comic-Con, but the more eagle-eyed attendee will already have spotted a new reveal from X-Men: Days Of Future Past . A new booth has sprung up outside the convention centre sporting the Trask Industries logo, where a disembodied robot …

Tom Cruise’s forthcoming sci-fi vehicle All You Need Is Kill has undergone a title change, with the film now to be referred to as Edge Of Tomorrow . The new title fits in quite nicely with the film’s time-loop plot, as Tom Cruise’s military man finds himself reliving his last …

Swaggering down mean streets previously occupied by Elite Squad and various Ringo Lam skull-crackers, Everardo Gout’s Mexican crime epic starts with a bracingly stylised snarl and ends in a muddle. Covering 12 years linked by three footie World Cups, the frantic action subjects idealistic cop Lupo (Tenoch Huerta) to a …

Despite garnering fairly lukewarm reviews across the board, Alice In Wonderland was hugely lucrative for Disney, so much so that a sequel always seemed inevitable. The original’s $1 billion worldwide take was at least partly down the presence of star name Johnny Depp, and so Disney will be thrilled to …

Pacific Rim imagines a world in which humans pilot giant robots (Jaegers) to fight off the onslaught of humungous interdimensional aliens (Kaiju), hellbent on ravaging Earth. Being a Guillermo del Toro picture, there’s a ridiculous amount of detail loitering in the background. From the tech that goes into building the …

For movie fans, Pixar’s Californian studios are infamous. As the place that birthed some of the greatest animations of all time, a peek behind the Steve Jobs-designed doors is a rarity. So you can understand why we were more than a little excited to visit the Emeryville base for an …