July, 2014

• 2 July

  HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 COMPETITION

  

  WIN! A COPY OF THE ART OF HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (opens in new tab) To celebrate the release of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 on 11 July , we’re giving three lucky readers the chance to win a hardback copy of The Art Of How To …

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June, 2014

• 25 June

  SFX Issue 250 On Sale Now

  

  Break out the party hats and pop the champagne! It’s here – issue 250 of the galaxy’s greatest SF magazine. To celebrate, we reveal the top 250 moments in sci-fi, fantasy and horror… as decided by YOU! Plus a free True Blood poster with every print edition! Get your copy …

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• 24 June

  SFX 250 PREVIEW! Why Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Faced Up To The Elements

  It’s quite literally gorillas in the mist. And chimpanzees in the rain. The sequel to 2011’s Rise Of The Planet of the Apes had a very different production to its predecessor, according to director Matt Reeves. So when he got the job for the biggest performance capture movie in cinema …

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• 24 June

  New Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes featurette shows off VFX: watch now

  

  Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes has released a new featurette online, showing off the film’s remarkable visual effects in all their glory. The technological whizzes at WETA have been helping out in that regard, with director Matt Reeves describing the studio as having taken “a quantum leap forward”. …

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• 23 June

  The Golden Dream review

  

  From the handheld opening shot of a kid barrelling through slums, a spirit of rough-hewn urgency drives debut director Diego Quemada-Díez’s drama about four Guatemalan teenagers trying to cross the border into the US. Casting non-professionals (Brandon López and Karen Martínez foremost) in the lead roles, Quemada-Díez channels Sin Nombre …

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• 20 June

  Chinese Puzzle review

  

  Following Pot Luck (2002) and Russian Dolls (2005), Cedric Klapisch’s charming-but-choppy trilogy culminates with… more of the same. Pinballing off his ex-partner, his lesbian bestie, and an old flame, Romain Duris’ restless novelist Xavier plunges into a Green Card -style fake marriage that threatens to turn this sophisticated New York …

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• 20 June

  Guardians Of The Galaxy: CineEurope footage reaction

  

  Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige was in Barcelona this week to present footage from Guardians Of The Galaxy , Marvel’s latest big-screen hopeful. Harking back to the days when taking Iron Man to market seemed like a risky proposition, Feige was enthusiastic about presenting something new. “It’s very important that …

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• 18 June

  Colin Firth drops out of Paddington

  

  Colin Firth will no longer be lending his voice to Paddington Bear in the forthcoming big-screen adventure, leaving producers with something of a headache ahead of the film’s proposed release date. Firth explained to Entertainment Weekly that, “after a period of denial, we’ve chosen ‘conscious uncoupling'”, in reference to Chris …

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• 16 June

  25 Greatest Film Noirs

  

  DOA (1950) The Noir There’s a lot of debate about what makes a proper film noir (for the record, this list excludes any of the ‘neo-noirs’ like Blood Simple, Chinatown, Blade Runner and Se7en that would otherwise have made the cut), but there’s no question about Rudolph Maté’s classic. “I …

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• 13 June

  Harrison Ford breaks ankle filming Star Wars: Episode VII

  

  Star Wars: Episode VII has suffered its first major hiccup during filming, with Harrison Ford having broken his ankle on the set of the forthcoming space sequel. The injury is said to have been caused by the door of the Millennium Falcon, with THR reporting a clarifying statement from Disney: …

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