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James Gunn isn’t your garden variety, cookie-cutter Hollywood director. For a start, he’s only really directed one film that you could class as a Hollywood blockbuster. That film is Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy , and it’s pretty much the biggest film hitting screens this year. Though he claims to …

The man responsible is Sharknado scripter Thunder Levin (whaddayamean, “People are actually paid to write these movies?” Show some respect!), who says he was just as surprised as everyone else when his creation blew up into a social media phenomenon. “That was just the most surreal night of my life”, …

Headin’ down to San Diego There are many, many gaming and comic conventions throughout the year: but there’s only ONE San Diego Comic-Con. The five day affair takes over the California town every July, and at its the core of the convention are the thousands of vendors selling basically anything …

Another version of this article originally posted on July 17, 2013. Pro tips Tired of having to share your precious game time with your two-year old sibling that can’t even grasp the concept of a 2D platformer? Are you sad that you had to take your once-loved pet cat “for …

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 …

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) The Road Trip Moment: En route to California for little Olive’s beauty pageant, the Hoover family suffers a major setback when grandpa Edwin (Alan Arkin) dies. Why It’s Crazy: The family sneak his body out of the hospital, pile him into the van and illegally transport …

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 …

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 …

Do you remember E3 2011? When everything Sony said was underpinned with an assurance that 3D was the future–and PlayStation 3 was going to be right at the heart of that future? Well, that didn’t last long. Sony cannily recognised that its customers didn’t share that vision, and quietly got …

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The Tragic True Story: On 22 August 1972, John Stanley Wojtowicz attempted to rob a bank (along with Salvatore Naturale and Robert Westenberg) in order to pay for the sex reassignment surgery of Wojtowicz’s transgender partner, Ernest Aron. Wojtowicz was arrested but Naturale was killed by …