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Matt Damon recently reasoned that it would be tricky for him to do another Bourne film after The Bourne Legacy tinkered with the events of that universe, but from the sounds of his latest interview, he could still be open to the possibility. “Neither of us is against it,” he …

At a time when horror movies had turned to schlock, Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (2007) brought emotional care to screen scares with an adult fairytale about clinging onto the impossible even when all hope seems lost. For his follow-up, he tackles similar themes with far greater ambition yet no …

Having finally put Batman to bed with The Dark Knight Rises , Chris Nolan is busy answering superhero questions once more, this time regarding Superman comeback vehicle Man Of Steel . Nolan is a producer on Zack Snyder’s movie, and has been describing what we can expect from Supes and …

Watch out, someone’s spiked the eggnog. Cornelia Funke’s festive kids’ book is manhandled into a cheap German pantomime, complete with Dogtanian dubbing and the kind of frighteningly surreal plot that gives grown-ups waking nightmares. A shaggy young Santa is chased out of Christmastown by the dastardly Goblynch and his army …

Pete Doherty makes his first big-screen outing in this sterile stab at Alfred de Musset’s 1836 confessional. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, casting the former Libertines frontman as Octave, the debauched Parisian, but the novelty soon wears off. Suffocated by Sylvie Verheyde’s lifeless direction, …

Despite the many times Christopher Nolan has spoken about The Dark Knight Rises in terms of concluding a trilogy, there are still fans hoping the director will change his mind and return for a fourth outing. However, Nolan has been speaking about the future of Batman, and couldn’t have made …

The first trailer has arrived online for alien horror flick Dark Skies , in which Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton find their quiet suburban home subject to some very strange goings on. When their son complains of nightmares, and things start getting rearranged around the house, the couple are perturbed, …

Zack Snyder has been helping to whip up some more excitement for Man Of Steel , confirming that the new trailer will preview before The Hobbit , and talking a little about what we can expect from his star-studded cast. “I can’t wait for The Hobbit ,” says Snyder, “so …

Hot off The Fighter , the Oscar-winning comeback that marked his first feature since 2004’s I ♥ Huckabees , writer/director David O. Russell is evidently making up for lost time. With two films in two years he’s taken a leaf out of Terrence Malick’s playbook, only in a far more …

Ryan Gosling’s face looks like it has been battered to a pulp in the first promo poster for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives . Revealed over at The Film Stage (opens in new tab) , the OGF poster promises a film of brutal violence, with the Drive director and …