Practical Magic 2: the Owens sisters return, and so do the candles (trailer).
There are certain films that arrive not so much as movies, but as seasonal weather patterns. The original Practical Magic
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy unwraps grief, gore and enough bandages to bankrupt Boots (Mark Kermode film review).
There are certain things cinema simply cannot leave buried. Dracula rises every decade or so for another nibble, Frankenstein gets
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Signal One sends first contact to a billionaire’s island (scifi film trailer).
Signal One is the sort of science fiction film that begins with a question humanity has been asking since the
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Mortal Kombat II arrives to punch cinema in the plot glands (Mark Kermode movie review).
Mortal Kombat II has now cartwheeled into cinemas, dragging with it several realms, a worrying number of sharp objects, and
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Odyssey: When Nolan’s ancient Greece gets the IMAX Treatment (trailer).
There are remakes, there are reboots, and then there’s Christopher Nolan deciding to have a go at The Odyssey, which
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Speed Demon: horror film, The Nun, The Demon, and the 5:42 to Doomsville (trailer).
If there’s one thing horror cinema has taught us, it’s that demons have a strong preference for enclosed spaces. Houses,
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The Dog Stars: A man, a dog, and the end of the world directed by Ridley Scott (trailer).
There’s a particular flavour of apocalypse that Ridley Scott seems to favour. Not the loud, explodey sort where cities are
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Godzilla Minus Zero: Because Things Clearly Weren’t Miserable Enough Already (trailer).
There are sequels, and then there are sequels that look at the smouldering wreckage of the previous film and say,
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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (trailer).
There are prequels, there are sequels, and then there are those slightly unnerving narrative time-loops where Hollywood digs up a
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Supergirl: Hangover in Space (With Occasional Laser Violence)
If Superman is the polite chap who holds the door open and says “after you,” Supergirl appears to be the
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