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Big Game is director Jalmari Helander’s second foray into feature-length film and I was as lost watching it as I can imagine he was trying to put together such an abomination. Big Game is a coming-of-age story in which a boy is required to hunt down an animal whilst...

“This is a story about the future and the future can be scary”. As opening lines of films go, this one really works to set up the movie well. Not much had previously been revealed about Tomorrowland during production, nor in the trailer, only that it was about a new world and achieving...

Let’s be honest, Kristen Stewart had a rough time after Twilight. In its wake, she’s been haunted by memes of her ‘one-expression’ acting-style, not to mention association with melodramatic ‘teen-cinema’. But all that could be about to change. Following her turns in Camp X-Ray and Still Alice, Clouds of Sils Maria is a thought-provoking psychological...

Elijah Wood is back, and continuing to differentiate himself from Lord Of the Rings. Cooties sits comfortably in his new-found genre home, horror. However, it’s unlike anything you’ve seen him in before. Unless you can think of another film with teachers fighting zombie schoolchildren. Political correctness aside, there are numerous opportunities for...

It’s yet another Steve Jobs film, as apparently the world needs more of a man who is the embodiment of the marmite principle. This time it’s Michael Fassbender’s turn, and this first look trailer shows about five seconds of him in the title role. Adapting Walter Isaacson’s authorised 2011 biography of...

Hollywood has an enduring love affair with American educational institutions. It romanticises all manner of sporting forwards and backwards, pays tribute to the myriad of social sects – helpfully arranged into frats and sororities – and now lavishes love on the (unnervingly) ebullient musical troupe. University acapella group the...

With the maze trials now over and phase two beginning for Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and the Gladers, it’s time to enter the Scorch in this dystopian teen fiction sequel. Picking up straight from where last year’s The Maze Runner left off, we delve straight back into the action, and with...