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It was the fifteenth and final wave. Our base was in shambles with only a few percentage points of integrity left, and Arty and Big Willie were laying siege upon it with their massive weaponry. Crippled from a recent run-in with a swarm of suicidal Blitzers, we piloted our mobile …

It’s certainly getting bigger, but is it getting better?

Poor, poor Alice. It’s not bad enough she lost her family, her home, and has been institutionalized for eleven years – no, now her only escape, Wonderland, is in shambles. To save her mind and her imaginary friends, she must get to the bottom of something – she’s not sure …

Slapping on a swaggering explanation mark, this Congolese crime rumble is just happy to be here. Fuelled by its own vagabond brand of Afro-exploitation, it sees smuggler raconteur Riva (Patsha Bay) arrive home with a stolen shipment of precious gasoline that makes him a boozing, womanising playa in corrupt Kinshasa. …

Unlike fellow Czech expat Milos Forman, Ivan Passer never saw his US career really take off. But he directed a subversive masterpiece in Cutter’s Way (1981) a paranoid noir thriller. One night Richard bone (Jeff bridges), a Santa Barbara gigolo, sees a mysterious figure dump a body in a trashcan. …

Ginnifer Goodwin’s helpless romantic is in love with her chiselled former study buddy Colin Egglesfield, but he’s just about to tie the knot with her best friend, Kate Hudson. What to do? In the world of Something Borrowed, the hypocrisy comes thick and fast as Goodwin jumps into bed with …

Kevin Bacon as a mutant Nazi! Rose Byrne in her pants! Nicolas Hoult done up like Sully from Monsters, Inc! And these aren’t even the best things about Matthew Vaughn’s vibrant, sprawling, ensemble origin story (well, maybe the Bacon bits…). A franchise reboot reminiscent of JJ Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek …

The skin we’re in 6.05 “The Rebel Flesh” Writer: Matthew Graham Director: Julian Simpson (opens in new tab) THE ONE WHERE A solar tsunami brings the Doctor, Amy and Rory to an acid pumping station, where the workers use a substance called “the Flesh” to create artificial doppelgangers (or “gangers”) …

Bald-headed bruiser Jason Statham is DS Tom Brant, a grizzled London copper who plays by his own rules, takes no prisoners and other assorted clichés, in Elliott Lester’s throwback of a serial-killer movie, based on the novel by Ken Bruen. A seedy, shirtless mass murderer calling himself The Blitz is …

As a writer/director (he also acts), Tom McCarthy specialises in the regeneration of social misfits. The Station Agent has an antisocial dwarf (Peter Dinklage, who else?) moving into a disused New Jersey rail station before gradually succumbing to friendship and love. In The Visitor, Richard Jenkins plays an emotionally withdrawn …