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Ben Affleck, it turns out, has learned a lot from his long and fruitful movie career – especially when it comes to being the butt of all jokes. Sad Affleck, complete with Simon and Garfunkel track, did the rounds last year, and it sounds like the Batman actor still has …

You may have heard of a tiny show by the name of Game of Thrones ending after season 8 in 2018, and yet we still don’t know just how many episodes are left in the (presumably) shorter final season. If one of HBO’s head honchos has his way, we could …

The karambit duel in The Raid 2 is the best movie fight (opens in new tab) of all time. It has to be. In a film stuffed with incredible combat and martial art scenes, it’s the grand finale; the violent end to the movie’s violent delights. Director Gareth Evans starts …

Not to be outdone by its American cousins at the Golden Globes (opens in new tab), BAFTA have announced its nominations for the 2017 BAFTA awards. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (opens in new tab) is up for Outstanding British Film, with Zootropolis (opens in new tab) hoping …

Will Beall is the script writer for 2018’s Aquaman movie and also penned an early draft of 2017’s Justice League (opens in new tab). So when he says that those movies will help steer DC’s movies into becoming more fun, well… he would know. In a recent interview with Collider …

In Duncan Jones’ (Moon, Warcraft) upcoming sci-fi flick Mute (opens in new tab), a man who cannot speak must venture into the dark and seedy underbelly of a Blade Runner-esque version of Berlin to find his missing love. Also in Duncan Jones’ upcoming sci-fi flick Mute, society now uses paper …

Star Wars Rebels has just dropped a mid-season trailer for the third season into our laps just before its return this weekend and, oh boy, is it special. The legendary Mandalorian darksaber shows up and Mon Mothma makes her first Rebels appearance but the big news is a rematch 18 …

Let’s face it, the first half of The Walking Dead season 7 (opens in new tab) shambled along slower than the walkers, roamers, bobbers – or whatever nifty new name the showrunners have for ‘zombie.’ But the second half of the season promises to see Rick turn into “a man …

The twelfth – twelfth! – Doctor Who Christmas special goes easy on the festive decoration. No flesh-eating snowflakes, no sentient alien tinsel, no Weeping Angel plonked on top of the tree. The Return Of Doctor Mysterio riffs on an altogether more recent tradition: the comic book blockbuster, those shiny, mega-budget …

Star Wars: Rogue One (opens in new tab) isn’t your typical Star Wars story. There isn’t an opening crawl, there are heroes that don’t want to be heroes and there are, shock, horror, no Jedi. Things could have been very different though – Jedi were included in various early drafts …