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Zombies can’t keep diaries, but if they did they’d be pretty repetitive, something Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett’s ambitious sequel to their 2006 DV horror could also be accused of. Following a unit of soldiers across post-apocalyptic England’s snowy, corpse-strewn wastelands, it’s shot first-person, shakey-cam style. Despite an extremely bleak …

As if we weren’t excited enough about Guillermo del Toro’s next project, the news that Idris Elba could be joining Pacific Rim is enough to crank up our anticipation to dangerous levels. According to The Wrap, Legendary Pictures is ‘interested’ in signing the British actor for an unspecified role. It’s …

Hello fright fans, my name’s Sam Ashurst and I’m Total Film’s resident cult horror expert. I spend so much time banging on about ’70s giallo movies, ’80s VHS trash classics, ’90s serial killer flicks and ’00s foreign chillers that TF has finally decided to give me my own column. Possibly …

To life’s many great imponderables – Where did we come from? What’s our purpose? Does God exist? Why did they make a fourth Scream movie? – we can now add the following question: would watching The Beaver without any awareness of Mel Gibson’s monster raving loony antics make it a …

Begged by John Waters to “make another old-school Gregg Araki movie”, the filmmaker duly obliges with an unhinged, saucy frolic that harkens back to such earlier favourites as The Doom Generation and Totally F***ed Up. The latter is one way to describe Smith (Thomas Dekker), a film studies student at …

Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class opens in cinemas next week, and it’s already generating a healthy amount of positive buzz from early press screenings. In a new chat about the film, Vaughn threw around a few ideas regarding a possible sequel to the prequel. Spoilerphobes beware, his comments give away …

In the wake of Tim Burton’s mega-successful Alice In Wonderland redo, Sony have picked up a movie treatment that puts a new spin on the Little Mermaid fairytale. The studio have bought the rights to Carolyn Turgeon’s novel Mermaid: A Twist On The Classic Tale , while Country Strong director …

Invisibility You know you’ve got it when: You go all see-through, obviously. Made famous by: Sue Storm ( Fantastic Four ), Sebastian Caine ( Hollow Man ), Violet Parr ( The Incredibles ), Harry Potter How would you use your power? Handy if you wanted to spy on your boss, …

Samuel L Jackson The Site: SamuelLJackson.com (opens in new tab) Design: A stark, blocky look centred around a traditional blog layout. 3/5 Content : Fulsome. The news is regular, and there are well-maintained stashes of photographs and interviews. 3/5 Star Input: It’s official, but it doesn’t look like Big Sam …

Lars Von Trier has been declared ‘persona non grata’ by the Cannes Film Festival following his claim to be a Nazi. The controversy kicked off on Wednesday when, in a press conference for his new film Melancholia , the Danish director said that he “understood” and “sympathised” with Hitler. Seemingly …