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In the latest instalment of the X-Men film series, X-Men: Apocalypse will be bursting onto the big screen in May 2016. Bringing together all our favourite characters from both the original trilogy and the ‘first class’ gang, Apocalypse features Oscar Isaac as the eponymous villain who is intent on...

Having read a number of negative reviews, I went into Pan with relatively low expectations. After all, there have been so many movies and re-makes about Peter Pan in the past, how could this one offer any originality or flare? However, I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Stylistically,...

Director Joe Wright’s Pan is the latest retreading of J. M. Barrie’s fairy tale great, and explores the origins of Peter Pan. With the Jurassic World trailer released on the same day, you may be forgiven for overlooking this first glimpse of Pan. But from Hugh Jackman’s highly theatrical performance of Blackbeard, to...

There is something to be applauded in a director who doggedly explores original ideas in this age of Hollywood sequels. The genius behind 2009’s District 9, Neil Blomkamp, has created the new sci-fi film Chappie. Chappie is an artificially intelligent robot, created by Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), who has...

In anticipation for Christopher Nolan’s wormhole wandering in his pioneering sci-fi epic Interstellar, our writers have united on a voyage to discover some of the most ambitious films ever to have been made. War and Peace The production notes for the 1967 Best Foreign Language Picture winner, War and Peace...