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Angelina Jolie won’t be directed by David Fincher in the new version of Cleopatra – the Se7en filmmaker has dropped out of the project due to his busy schedule. That’s not surprising considering how slow production on Cleopatra has been. Fincher last showed an interest in it way back in …

Twenty years after Baraka , his last globe-trotting banquet for the senses, Ron Fricke returns with a sequel of sorts… or, Samsara being a Sanskrit word for the circle of existence, a cyclical continuation. Four years in the making, Fricke’s film is a non-verbal tour of the rituals and patterns …

FrightFest 2012 is creeping into London town this Thursday 23 August, and Total Film has 40 tickets up for grabs to two of the festival’s hottest events. TF ’s exclusive guest at this year’s Fest is Italian horror icon Dario Argento, the director of Giallo classics Suspiria , Deep Red …

Keira Knightley is in talks to join the as-yet-untitled Jack Ryan reboot, according to The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab) . Should she sign on the line, the movie will mark her first blockbuster appearance since Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End . In the time that’s followed …

Having convinced America aliens were invading in 1938, Orson Welles mused on art-as-deception in this 1974 pic considered his last classic. Jumping off from a BBC commission about art forger Elmyr De Hory, Welles uses blink/ miss editing to stitch up a mischievous mash of mock-doc, magic show, lecture and …

28 Weeks Later. Predator 2. xXx: State Of The Union . Just a few of the pictures that have tried to perpetuate a franchise without their original stars on board. To their number we can now add The Bourne Legacy , a continuation of the Robert Ludlum-inspired spy series without …

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001) The Film: John Madden’s often infuriatingly saccharine period romp in which an engaged woman falls for an Italian commander while her beau is off fighting the war. Bale Intensity: Bale clearly wasn’t happy with the material here, seeming to regret signing on by delivering a stilted, …

[brightcove]1627314831001[/brightcove] The Expendables 2 is flexing its well-oiled muscles for an all-out assault on the summer box office, and in order to whet our appetites further, has released a cool new banner poster posing its key players in a mock-up of the Last Supper. And so, we have Stallone in …

Christian Bale is in a good place career-wise, and not just because of the impressive box-office performance of his last Bat-movie, The Dark Knight Rises . He has recently completed shooting on revenge thriller Out Of The Furnace , as well on working two new movies with his The New …

Cars (2006) The Accusation: Not even the removal of all of the humans from Pixar’s auto-centric adventure could stop the sense of deja vu that Lightning McQueen’s exile in a small town was a reprise of Michael J. Fox’s experiences in Doc Hollywood . The Spark Of Originality: Actually, this …