Sam Mendes has been talking to US chat show host Charlie Rose about what attracted him back to the director’s chair for Bond 24 , with the primary motivation seeming to be a sense of unfinished business. “I started a number of stories that were incomplete,” explains Mendes. “I cast …

A little reminder: the World Science Fiction Convention returns to London after 49 years. Sign up now… As you may know, the World Science Fiction Convention (this year dubbed Loncon ) is going to be held in London this August – for the first time since 1965. The guests of …

Kirsten Dunst’s 2012 mirror-world movie Upside Down was slammed in the US, but Yasuhiro Yoshiura’s anime fable makes nifty work of a similar world-inverted motif. At heart it’s a coming-of-ager about two teens and their oppressive elders, with the clever spin that youngsters Age and Patema occupy alternaworlds with opposing …