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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 …

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”. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …