We’re diving into a diverse set of premium and free new releases for the iPad this week, with the paid options headlined by Pulse: Volume One, a striking and original rhythm game, as well as Siege Hero HD, which sort of plays like a first-person Angry Birds. And then there’s …

Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Mia Wasikowska have joined Jim Jarmusch’s latest – a ‘crypto-vampire love story’. The as-yet-untitled film will take pace against the desolation of Detroit and Tangier, and is set to film in Germany, Morocco and Detroit in early 2012. No plot details as yet, but Jarmusch …

Hot young things Jackson Rathbone and Erika Christensen have joined Paul Williams’ new film The Idiot . The Twilight actor and Flightplan actress will star as lovers in the feature adaptation of the Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The thriller follows a man returning to Russia from a Swiss hospital …

The first three Dragon Quest games and their 16-bit remakes are heading to the Wii. Square-Enix announced that Dragon Quest 25th Anniversary Commemoration: Famicom & Super Famicom Dragon Quest I•II•III would serve as part of Dragon Quests 25th anniversary. To sweeten the deal, Square will include as-yet -unannounced bonus items …

Hello fright fans, my name’s Sam Ashurst and I’m Total Film’s resident cult horror expert. I spend so much time banging on about ’70s giallo movies, ’80s VHS trash classics, ’90s serial killer flicks and ’00s foreign chillers that TF have finally decided to give me my own column. Possibly …

Did Alice really burn her own family to death as a child? We presume not, but who knows? She is completely, utterly mad, and as 10 years in an asylum and round-after-round of vintage therapy sessions have proven useless, only the memories she recovers in Wonderland can reveal the truth. …

A Prophet made big waves when it premiered in Cannes two years ago, and Revolver Entertainment are hoping to take a slice of the same cake with British prison drama Feltham . The film is about a young man who gets himself incarcerated at the young offender’s institute in Feltham, …

Imagine my surprise when I walked into an Ocarina of Time appointment and immediately heard “today you’ll be playing the Water Temple.” After fainting, barfing, then barfing until I fainted again, I was able to shed off 13-year-old PTSD long enough to try the new 3D version of said temple, …

SFX Blogger Alasdair Stuart immerses himself in the virtual world of Cylons

Woody Allen has got Cannes ’11 off to a lightly likeable and aptly French-flavoured start with his latest, Midnight In Paris. Echoing Allen’s Manhattan, the movie opens with an extended montage of postcard views of the French capital. If you think this is the writer/director romanticising Paris out of all …