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This year’s big superhero face-off will be the first live-action Batman film helmed by someone other than Christopher Nolan for nearly two decades – and new director Zack Synder has revealed that the director found it difficult to hand over the Wayne reins. Speaking to Empire magazine (opens in new …

Lauren Cohan has been playing zombie apocalypse survivor Maggie Greene for five years now on AMC’s The Walking Dead, but it looks like she’s about to see what it’s like on the other side of the grave. Entertainment Weekly (opens in new tab) reports that Cohan will play the role …

And the Oscar goes to…? From the director of Adam Sandler’s The Cobbler comes the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar, an ode to old-fashioned journalism with nary a shred of sentiment or, one histrionic scene aside, sensationalism. Tom McCarthy’s sobering drama demonstrates disciplined filmmaking built upon scrupulous storytelling, clear-eyed …

Michael Fassbender will soon be reprising his role as (young) Magneto in the new X-Men film out later this year, but rather than taking on the role of the big bad, as he has in the past, this movie will see him serving a new master in the form of …

X-Men: Days of Future Past decimated the established timeline of the franchise. Wolverine’s time-hop to 1973 led to mutants being exposed to the public many years earlier, and if you stuck around for the final scene, a ton of character resurrections. It wiped the slate clean, effectively undoing the events …

In order to bring Star Wars: The Force Awakens to life, JJ Abrams insisted on a combination of digital and practical effects, a feat that lent the space opera sequel an edge of fanboy-approved cool. The result (opens in new tab) is quite a contrast compared to the CGI-heavy prequels. …

Mutantkind was on the brink of extinction in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but for this summer’s followup, X-Men: Apocalypse, it’s the whole world on the line. Speaking in a new Q&A video, writer Simon Kinberg called Apocalypse “the biggest X-Men movie we’ve ever done,” a proclamation made possible by …

Ever since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (opens in new tab) was announced, rumours have persisted that because it takes place before Star Wars: A New Hope Darth Vader may make an appearance. The rumour has never been confirmed, but some new information suggests that it could be a …

We’ve heard it from Deadpool (opens in new tab). We’ve heard it from Ryan Reynolds (opens in new tab). But now it’s official – Deadpool (opens in new tab) will be rated R. The news comes to us via Box Office Mojo (opens in new tab), who report that Deadpool …

The best scares from the nineties The ’90s. When a horror movie won the best picture Oscar. When the Japanese sent their vengeful spirits worldwide. When the found footage phenomenon took off. When cool directors like David Lynch and David Fincher decided to give horror a new respectability, and new …