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X-Men: Days of Future Past scored big on the Memorial Day box-office weekend earning an estimated $111 million over the four-day weekend in the US. Internationally, it was Fox’s biggest ever opening, with $302 million in total. The US opening ranks Days of Future Past just behind The Last Stand …

The first, and still the best, adap of a Hemingway novel. In this 1932 classic from director Frank Borzage, set in WW1 Italy, Gary Cooper is the US ambulance driver who falls for Helen Hayes’ English nurse and goes AWOL to join her – to find she’s pregnant with his …

It’s probably safe to say that Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River , hasn’t gone down as well as would have been predicted at the Cannes Film Festival. Cannes audiences are notoriously quick to turn on a project, and the reaction to Gosling’s film has been distinctly mixed. Read Total …

Fronting riot grrrl instigators Bikini Kill and pop feminists Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna was an outspoken voice for women in ‘90s US punk’s macho moshpit. It’s hugely moving, then, when Sini Anderson’s docu-portrait reveals her quieted by illness. Scuffed archive footage, talking heads and chats with Hanna and husband/Beastie Boy …

Total Film took part in the X-Men X-Perience Global Tour last night, by standing on a rainy blue carpet and chatting to some of the stars and creators of the awesome X-Men: Days Of Future Past . And while we were there, we got a little bit of a scoop. …

Godzilla has unveiled a bumper batch of new footage online, with the release of no fewer than five clips from Gareth Edwards’ forthcoming reboot. The new clips show off plenty of human action from the likes of Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche et al, while there is also some monster-based chaos …

“This is war, man, not fucking hopscotch!” barks P.K. Sullivan (Gage Munroe) – a pint-sized General Patton – to his troops, a group of all-American 12-year-olds playing soldiers in the woods. Truth is, it’s a bit of both. Although their ‘guns’ can’t actually hurt, their emergent killer instincts can, and …

In a battered, isolated farmhouse somewhere in a war zone, a grieving may lays out the corpse of his wife. His two children over nervously. Then trucks approach. The father grabs his shotgun – but it’s not troops, but a small travelling circus. They pitch camp; their aged ringmaster is …

Star Wars Rebels has released a full trailer, rather fittingly on May the 4th – the unofficial Star Wars day (‘May the 4th be with you!’, geddit?) Set between the events of movies Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope , the animated series has …

Sam Mendes has been talking to US chat show host Charlie Rose about what attracted him back to the director’s chair for Bond 24 , with the primary motivation seeming to be a sense of unfinished business. “I started a number of stories that were incomplete,” explains Mendes. “I cast …