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(opens in new tab) [ Click on the image to see it in hi-res ] So as it turns out, Ethan Hawke is a pretty good liar. Just last week we reported that work had begun on filming Before Midnight , a sequel to Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before …

Roughly five minutes in, an incendiary bullet from Judge Dredd’s hand-cannon cooks a thug’s brain inside his own skull. He drops, glowing like a human halloween pumpkin. Dredd grimaces. Call it a statement of intent. The helmet stays on and the gloves are off in screenwriter Alex Garland’s grim, ultraviolent …

Today’s hot superhero rumour has DC lining up its long-awaited Justice League movie to go directly into competition with The Avengers 2 , with Batman On Film reporting that the film is being lined up for summer 2015. The site claims that a DC source has revealed the studio’s plans …

The Inbetweeners bandwagon continues to roll on, with the launch of an American series and talk of an American movie now being followed by a proposed sequel to the original feature film. Leading man Simon Bird (Will in the show and movie) has been discussing the possibility of a big …

Leigh Francis, one of the shrewdest comics of the noughties (man with big chin pisses pants = career), has made the perilous walk from terrestrial TV to cinema. It’s a move that crushes him just like it crushed Dad’s Army , Steptoe , On The Buses and many better British …

One of the holy grails of modern horror, the extended version of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed has had its European premiere at FrightFest. The Cabal Cut sticks more closely to both the book and Barker’s cinematic vision. Even die-hard fans have to admit that the original version of Nightbreed is, in …

Joe Johnston’s adaptation of The Rocketeer celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, and Disney was clearly paying attention, with the studio reportedly planning to remake the comic-book adventure for a new audience. Vulture reports that Alan Horn, the new studio head of the Mouse House, is keen to revive the …

The Avengers has released a brilliant gag-reel online ahead of its upcoming release on DVD and Blu-ray, and it seems to confirm that filming on the superhero smash was every bit as fun as we’d imagined. And so we’re treated to the sight of Thor miscontrolling his hammer, Hawkeye getting …

It seems that the Expendables phenomenon continues to grow, with the action extravaganza having kick-started Arnie and Sly’s flagging careers, set up a potential second sequel, and now apparently having spawned an all-female incarnation. According to Variety , Dredd producer Adi Shankar is keen to see a troop of female …

For all its desperate attempts at tension, suspense and edge, this Brit-thriller is dismally dull. Two men – club-owning businessman Ian (Kenny Doughty), and assassin Issac (Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson) – are separately ordered to kill each other. Able to track their opponent’s location via GPS, they have 12 hours to …