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Following our Christmas break, Cape Expectations (opens in new tab) is back and bigger than ever. We’ve got contributions from Chiwetel Ejiofor, Steve McQueen, Jonah Hill, Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone, but that’s not all! There’s shades of Wayne’s World 2 as Sam & Gav have moved their sofa …

Magician duo Penn and Teller specialise in illusion, so there is a logic of sorts to them dedicating their doc to a Texas inventor’s quest to make a copy of a Johannes Vermeer painting. Using mirrors, a camera obscura and hundreds of meticulous man-hours, Tim Jenison does indeed craft his …

NBC latest movie-inspired TV show looks to have bagged a leading lady, with Zoe Saldana set to star in the forthcoming Rosemary’s Baby miniseries. Having enjoyed success with the Mads Mikkelsen-starring Hannibal , the network is bringing Ira Levin’s 1967 horror novel to the small screen, with Saldana set to …

Steve McQueen’s direction can feel like having your hand held up to a flame. Your reflex is to recoil, but McQueen’s unflinching camera holds you in place, forcing you to experience the physical disintegration of Hunger ’s Bobby Sands or the self-flagellating excesses of Shame ’s sex addict, Brandon. 12 …

Marvel have announced Thor: The Dark World (opens in new tab) ‘ s One-Shot, and it’s going to be called All Hail The King . For the uninitiated, Marvel One-Shots are short films that are canon within the Marvel universe. So, stuff like Agent Carter , which expanded Hayley Atwell’s …

Edgar Wright has joined in the end-of-year list-making fun by revealing his top 20 films of 2013, and listing them on his blog. While noting the caveat that there are still some key releases he has yet to watch, the director has selected his pick of the year, with the …

The Coen Brothers’ new film Inside Llewyn Davis is one of the most hotly-anticipated films of 2014, and we’ve gotten our hands on an exclusive featurette that goes behind the scenes of the film. Taking a look at the folk music created specifically for the movie, Chris Thile of the …

At one of the most heart-wrenching moments of Shakespeare’s brutal political tragedy, Coriolanus declares that “it is no little thing to make mine eyes sweat compassion”. The same could sometimes be said of theatre audiences, now more used to the manipulation and intimacy of cinematic drama than the unvarnished immediacy …

The Terminator franchise is expanding beyond the already-confirmed big-screen reboot, with Skydance and Anapurna planning a new TV series to be created in conjunction with the next film. The new series is being written and produced by Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller, while the writers of the new film, Laeta …

It’s a generally accepted rule that stories require a beginning, a middle and an end (even if Jean-Luc Godard felt that they didn’t necessarily have to be in that order). But do those rules apply if you’re stretching a single story over three epic films? The Two Towers (the middle …