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Following hot on the heels of Patrick Stewart’s teasing comments last week, Famke Janssen has also suggested that an X-Men return might be on the cards for her character, Jean Grey. The last we saw of her, Jean was lying dead in the arms of Wolverine, having been almost entirely …

Like many struggling writers, true-crime novelist Ellison (Ethan Hawke) spends far too much time in his room watching films. What’s harder to swallow is that none of them are Insidious , with which Scott Derrickson’s slick horror shares much of its DNA (not to mention its producers). Both movies feature …

At the beginning of Trainspotting , Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner are both seen barrelling down Princes Street in Edinburgh, a pair of security goons hot on their heels. Seconds later, McGregor’s Renton takes some steps down to Calton Road, a good half a mile away from where he was …

Spearheaded by a strikingly self-assured turn from Elle Fanning, this ’60s-set coming-of-ager follows two teenage girls whose bond starts to crumble under the emotional and political pressures of adulthood. Director Sally Potter shrewdly weaves the domestic drama – centred on the shifting dynamics between Ginger (Fanning), her parents (Christina Hendricks …

Salim Akil’s film is a loose remake of the long-forgotten ’76 film of the same name, a semi-fictional biopic of The Supremes. This version tells the same well-worn story: aspiring singer/songwriter Sparkle (American Idol alum Jordin Sparks) forms a girl group with her sisters during the Motown era and faces …

The Hobbit has continued its recent publicity push with a brand new poster featuring a full complement of Dwarves, clocking in at 13 in total. We don’t know what the collective noun is for dwarves, but there are a lot of them. Ginger ones, grey ones, handsome ones… you name …

[brightcove]1688476237001[/brightcove] Having shied away from an on-screen appearance in his last few films, Quentin Tarantino is set to return to the spotlight in Django Unchained , in which he is set to make a cameo. TV star Rex Linn has revealed that QT was so enamoured with his character Tennessee …

Having run aground slightly toward the end of the noughties, the X-Men franchise is in rude health once more, with long-awaited sequel The Wolverine finally making its way towards cinemas, and X-Men: Days Of Future Past also in the pipeline. All this success seems to have piqued the interest of …

The casting rumours surrounding Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming sci-fi spectacular Robopocalypse are coming thick and fast, with Ben Whishaw the latest name supposedly on the Beard’s wish list. The film is based on the book of the same name by Daniel H Wilson, which is set in a future where a …

Senator Robert Kelly (X-Men) The Politician: Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison), an anti-mutant politician who leads and brews up a fearful and hostile public attitude towards mutants. He proposes to ban mutant children from schools and supports the Mutant Registration Act. Slimiest Moment: When Magneto (Ian McKellen) uses a machine …