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The first rule of a successful spoof is ensuring audiences know the original material, so why the makers of this puerile, borderline-misogynistic, flatulence-obsessed pastiche of Eclipse actively alienate and vilify Twi-hards is anyone’s guess. Equally bemusing is why Twi-haters over the age of 15 might find any of the low-rent, …

The British hoodie genre edges uncomfortably into the world of professional football in Danny Donnelly’s grimy debut. Rising star Adam Deacon plays a premiership hotshot struggling to keep his shady past off the pitch after running into an old council-estate mate. David Ajala stands out as the psycho-gangsta blackmailing him …

When Top Gear went to India for its Christmas special, the show was deemed offensive enough to prompt an official complaint. Presumably the Indian High Commission will be more receptive to Michael Winterbottom’s newest, even if it does paint the country as one riven by gender inequality and class divisions. …

Danish master Carl Dreyer’s ( The Passion Of Joan Of Arc ) penultimate film, Ordet ( The Word ) treats its intensely emotional subject matter – religious conflict, death in childbirth, a possibly miraculous resurrection – with cool, austere restraint. It’s set, and largely shot, in a village in Jutland …

The Dictator is the latest character-based comedy from Sacha Baron Cohen, and he’s been causing a bit of controversy with regards to Oscars 2012. There has been speculation that Sacha Baron Cohen has been banned from this Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, due to fears among academy members that he will use …

A new red band trailer has been released for childbirth comedy Friends With Kids , and pleasingly, it’s much funnier than the green band effort that arrived last month. Whereas that teaser seemed distinctly light on jokes, this new, foul-mouthed offering seems much more in keeping with the comic capabilities …

[brightcove]1213024251001[/brightcove] Tie-in toys for Marvel’s The Avengers may have revealed one of the big, villainous threats our heroes will face in the upcoming epic. Anyone with a dislike of spoilers or spurious, toy-based evidence should run along now. Go. Gone? Right then, we’ll continue. Toy lines (or candy lines for …

Despite Jessica Chastain originally being linked to the role , Naomi Watts has been officially cast as Princess Diana in Caught In Flight . The film will be directed by Downfall ’s Oliver Hirschbiegel, and it will focus on the final two years of Diana’s life. Watts said of her …

Page 394 The Scene: Snape’s mastery of his classroom is epitomised by his contemptuously drawling instruction to “turn to page three hundred and ninety four.” It doesn’t look much written down, but somehow Alan Rickman manages to make it sound like a threat… The Awesome: Rickman is perfect as Snape, …

In the ’90s, the LAPD ’S Rampart division imploded due to widespread corruption. The word “rampart” itself brings to mind outdated defences – things that don’t bend but break. Perhaps the latter is more relevant to Oren Moverman’s ( The Messenger ) second film. A James Ellroy ( LA Confidential …