Simon Columb reviews Election from BFI Southbank’s Alexander Payne retrospective…Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. So the age-old saying goes. Election, Alexander Payne’s second feature, hit cinema screens in 1999 and immediately found a fan-base by deconstructing this mantra and showing it in all its school-emblem colours. Kicking off Reese Witherspoon’s career and […]

Sherlock returns to BBC One on New Year’s Day at 9pm for the first of a three episode run starring amongst others Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss, and Una Stubbs. The big question which has led to so many forum/pub/front room arguments is how did Sherlock (Cumberbatch) managed to survive his plummet to the […]

After the box-office success of this year’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jon M. Chu is currently hard at work with screenwriter Evan Daugherty (Snow White and the Huntsman, Divergent) developing the story for the as-yet-untitled G.I. Joe 3. The director has previously discussed the possibility of Rachel Nichols’ Scarlett returning after sitting out the second movie, and now […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… This week, The Dissolve writes about the new 100 Alamo Movies list:“The company currently has 18 theaters and plans to open another five next year. Seven of the 100, including Brazil, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, and Raiders Of The Lost Ark, will be shown in all […]

Luke Graham with four Christmas comedown movies…The holidays are a magic time of year, with snowflakes, miracles and family cheer. For many people, the Christmas and New Year period are the highlights of their year. Well, enough of that. Now that it’s January, it’s time to get back to real world. Here are four films […]

Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Batman vs. Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Justice League: War, and more….After debuting the […]

It’s good to be in with Judd Apatow. At the premiere of Girls, the producer told MTV that he has already seen Paul Rudd (This Is 40) in full Ant-Man gear from next year’s Marvel Phase Three movie.“I’ve already seen Rudd suited up in our personal lives together but I’m super excited for him. There’s […]

We already know that Bryan Singer is cramming as many mutants as possible into this year’s X-Men sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past, but we can now add another familiar face to that list with Girls star Evan Jonigkeit revealing to MTV that he’s set to play a younger version of a character from Singer’s […]

Before he joins up with the rest of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mark Ruffalo is at the Sundance Film Festival where he’s promoting his latest film Infinitely Polar Bear, but that didn’t stop the actor from giving a few thoughts on the script for the upcoming Avengers sequel, as well […]

Paul Risker chats with Jeremy Teicher, writer-director of Tall as the Baobab Tree… It was at the 56th BFI London Film Festival that I first met writer-director Jeremy Teicher who was there to present his film Tall as the Baobab Tree. It remains a startling work, and one which exudes an almost effortless quality, a […]