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He may not return to direct Guardians of the Galaxy 3 – he was fired last year due to some questionable tweets from 2008 – but James Gunn’s presence will still be keenly felt in the cosmic threequel. That’s because, as Chris Pratt confirms, his script is still attached to …

Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez had a good rule for creating masterpieces like Of Love and Other Demons and 100 Years of Solitude: don’t ever look back on a work you’ve declared finished or you’ll go insane. The idea, according to Marquez, is that no creative work is ever truly finished, …

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auditorium… along comes an earworm even deadlier than Everything is Awesome. Behold Catchy Song, which (repeatedly) insists: “This song’s gonna get stuck inside your heaaaaad…” Yes. Yes, it does. Question is, does the film follow suit?  If not …

1. Resident Evil 2 Remake brings a horror classic back from the dead It’s hard to overstate the importance of the Resident Evil series. It’s not the only horror game around but it was one of the first to see a breakthrough success, coining the term ‘survival horror’, as well …

I love me some Avengers 4 (opens in new tab): Endgame toy leaks. Far away from the ever-watchful eye of Marvel Studios, you can always count on some big reveals and spoilers to be spotted in a random store shelf anywhere in the world.  Case in point? We could very …

The mule might well describe Clint Eastwood: stubbornly making his own kind of films despite his advancing years and increasingly old-fashioned tastes. This, his 37th film as director, shares DNA with some of his ’70s output in its casual racism, depiction of women as whores or angels, and a masculine …

The Star Trek Discovery season 2 (opens in new tab) premiere is here! It’s felt like a long, long time since we left Michael, Stamets, Saru, and co. standing jaws agape at the USS Enterprise but, thankfully, you’ll be pleased to know that the show got back in its groove …

With Star Trek Discovery season 2 (opens in new tab) very nearly here (it premieres in the US on CBS All Access today, before hitting Netflix in the UK tomorrow), it’s time to look back at the incredible Star Trek Discovery season 1 ending and recap where we left things …

The John Wick 3 trailer is here and it pushes the envelope in pretty much every action-packed direction you could want: we’ve got motorcycle swordfights, we’ve got neon-lit close quarters combat, we’ve got The Chairman from Iron Chef America fixing John with an unnerving stare. We even have a couple …

Watching the first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home (opens in new tab), I now understand how Aragon must have felt when Gandalf appears upon the hill at the battle of Helm’s Deep, having apparently cheated death at the hands of a very angry Balrog. Spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War …