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The first full trailer has been unveiled for Joe Carnahan’s Stretch , in which Patrick Wilson’s limo driver needs $6,000 by midnight in order to pay off some pressing gambling debts. With a threat having been made against his life, Wilson takes on a gig with an unpredictable billionaire, who …

Ridley Scott has been speaking about two of the hotly-anticipated sequels he’s currently working on, with updates on both Blade Runner 2 and Prometheus 2 . According to Scott, the script for Blade Runner 2 is now complete, and progress now depends on finding time in Harrison Ford’s busy schedule. …

Jeremy Renner has been discussing his future as Hawkeye, and has hinted that the character may be cropping up in Captain America 3 . It had previously been rumoured that Hawkeye would follow in the footsteps of Black Widow and take on a supporting role in Cap’s story, and judging …

“I’ve gone mainstream,” mutters Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) when the case of his missing wife, Amy Elliott Dunne (Rosamund Pike), leaps from local to national news. The same might be said of David Fincher, whose 10th film, based on the same-titled bestselling crime-thriller by Gillian Flynn, sees the filmmaker focus …

Yet another young adult novel gets squashed into a bland, Saturday afternoon time-waster. Brenton Thwaites ( Oculus ) stars as young adult Jonas in a grey-colored world where emotions are seeped out of people’s lives via medication, resulting in a harmonious but humdrum existence for all. Jonas is chosen to …

Sony is set to plunder the ‘90s for its next horror remake, with the studio set to breathe new life into slasher caper I Know What You Did Last Summer . Written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson, the original was part of the late-‘90s boom in teen slasher movies, bringing …

When a ballet teacher pushes her students for more “Attack!” in Kenneth Elvebakk’s frustrating documentary about teenage boys yearning for a life in ballet, you know how she feels. Elvebakk follows three Oslo boys as they try to locate their centre of balance. The lads are affable and talented but …

The imaginative whimsy of Belleville Rendez-Vous and The Illusionist is both present and correct in Sylvain Chomet’s live-action debut, a gentle charmer with dark elements in which music plays a pivotal role. So does the mutely expressive Guillaume Gouix, on double duty as both the silent piano prodigy trying to …

50/50 What happened to you 2011? Those folks back in the ’50s seemed certain that the whole damn planet would be in jetpacks by now, not to mention the fact that Earth still hasn’t colonized the stars. Gah, NASA hasn’t so much as encountered the Biker Mice from Mars, let …

In our regular polarising-opinion series, Total Film writer Matt Looker asks, is it just me? … or are The Matrix sequels just as good as the first film? “I love The Matrix . The first one, obviously – not the sequels.” It’s a distinction I’ve heard so many times that …