Tag Archives: Total Film

The Unknown Known review

The gloves are off, as America’s foremost documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (sorry Michael Moore) gets in the ring with former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In office during 9/11 and the subsequent Iraq war and invasion of Afghanistan, Rumsfeld has, depending on your politics, a lot to answer for. Morris …

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Eight exclusive X-Men: Days of Future Past images

X-Men fans, rejoice! Our latest issue – the ULTIMATE MOVIE PREVIEW – is full of incredible X-Men: Days Of Future Past exclusives featuring all your favourite mutants from Bryan Singer’s star-packed sequel. To celebrate, we’ve got eight exclusive new images – you can check them out below. Inside the issue, …

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Suzanne review

While it only pops up in the end credits, covered by Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen’s gentle, mystifying song ‘Suzanne’ seems like a guiding light for French writer/director Katell Quillévéré’s second feature. The lines “You know that she’s half crazy/But that’s why you want to be there” certainly chime with the …

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A New York Winters Tale review

Imagine a flying horse. Now, imagine that horse is really a dog. Now, imagine that it’s also a guardian angel sent to watch over the soul of a roguishly charming petty criminal. This is all literally true within the narrative of Akiva Goldsman’s spectacularly barmy directorial debut, but it’s also …

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Unforgiven review

A Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood’s multi-Oscar winner? Not as redundant as it sounds: Japan’s samurai movies have long mined one another for atmosphere and backdrops. This preserves the 1880s time period, plot and much of the same dialogue – though boots the action across the Pacific, where Ken Watanabe’s …

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20 Amazing Actors Who Have Never Done A Comic-Book Movie

Hollywood is now well into the business of making superhero movies, and, with so many film adaptations of properties once confined to the pages of a comic, it’s amazing that some fully established actors and actresses haven’t seen a single sniff of superheroics on their CV. But that can all …

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Three new images arrive from Guardians Of The Galaxy

Guardians Of The Galaxy has released a trio of new images on the eve of the first official trailer, giving us a good look at the weird and wonderful characters that make up Marvel’s latest super-team. There’s a great ensemble image, featuring Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and Chris Pratt alongside …

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Stalingrad review

Bidding to be ‘The Russian Saving Private Ryan ’, Fedor Bondarchuk’s film loosely retells the true story of Pavlov’s House: a single platoon that managed to hold a building, 300 -style, for a year against waves of Nazis. It’s a cinematic no-brainer, of course, but one that is marred by …

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