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Not long ago we were all staring mutely at the first Arkham game and marvelling (DC-ing?) that someone had finally done justice to a Batman game. “How is it even possible to get these things wrong?” we asked, cracking a thug to sleep with the grim fist of twilight vengeance. …

British documentary-maker Lucy Walker ( Waste Land , Countdown To Zero ) continues her eclectic career with this moving tale of snowboarder Kevin Pearce. A Winter Olympic hopeful, set to make the US team in 2010, Pearce fell from his board during a practice session, hit his head and suffered …

Polish director Malgoska Szumowska’s follow-up to Elles is a more modest but sometimes muddled tale of a gay priest torn by desire. Andrzej Chyra brings quiet depths to Father Adam, whose feelings for a young man in his rural flock drive him to drink. Emotional meltdowns and elliptical narrative leaps …

It’s almost three months to the day until Christmas is upon us again (sorry), and we’re already getting the turkey sweats just thinking about it. Which is as fitting an excuse as any to escape to the Future web for shiny game, tech and film-related awesomeness… CVG Where’s the Yeti? …

Joss Whedon might have scored a veritable mega-hit with The Avengers , but according to the director, he still could have improved upon its structure. “When I think of a great film, I think of something that’s either structured so perfectly like The Matrix or made so lovingly like The …

Like a Westworld for the terminally twee, Austenland is a theme park in which female guests cavort with Darcy-ish actors like forgotten Bennet sisters. This is where the borderline psychotic American Austen fan Jane (Keri Russell) heads as a mid-30s crisis hits hard. Too witless to be a decent comedy, …

The first trailer has arrived for crime caper Dom Hemingway , in which Jude Law’s ageing safecracker emerges from a long stretch in prison anxious to claim the money owed him for keeping his mouth shut… Unfortunately for him, it isn’t quite a straightforward as all that, as said money …

Jeff Bridges has been talking about latest movie R.I.P.D. , but instead of giving it the old PR flannel, he’s revealed that he’s none too partial to the finished film. “I had such a great time working on that movie,” said Bridges in an interview with GQ . “I remember …

In this second montage of jumpy frights from Saw duo James Wan (director) and Leigh Whannell (writer), an old dude with clairvoyant powers uses lettered dice cast to receive messages from the other side. One is almost tempted to wonder if similar tactics were used to write the script, which …

While the majority of Christmas movies aim for chocolate-box sentiment, Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa was a refreshingly black-hearted antidote to the usual surfeit of festive cheer. Understandable then that the prospect of a sequel has generated plenty of enthusiasm, although according to star Billy Bob Thornton, it may yet be …