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Ben Affleck has had a lot on his plate recently: actor, director, producer and even full-time meme (opens in new tab). That workload, though, seems to have gotten the better of him as he has jointly made the decision with Warner Bros. to step down from directing standalone Bats flick …

2013 was a great year for horror. We got The Conjuring (opens in new tab). We got the gleefully brutal Evil Dead (opens in new tab) remake. We got the slippery, seductively insidious charms of Stoker (opens in new tab), and the surprisingly good, refreshingly straight-laced Child’s Play sequel, Curse …

If the Marvel Cinematic Universe has one big flaw it’s that, Loki aside, its villains are pretty bland and one-dimensional. But have no fear, Spider-Man: Homecoming’s (opens in new tab) Vulture looks to buck the trend with Michael Keaton saying people are actually going to “like him.” Michael Keaton has …

On paper it looks like a scam. The sort of take-the-money-and-run job that Renton (Ewan McGregor) pulled before striding off into the freeze-framed future at the end of Danny Boyle’s 1996 era-defining masterpiece. Get the gang – director Boyle, novelist Irvine Welsh, under-sung screenwriter John Hodge, producer Andrew MacDonald and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …