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Joe Queenan: A henchman should be menacing. He’s meant to kill, torture and maim. But with John Wick and The Equalizer, we get poorly trained incompetents. Even the henchcrow in Sleeping Beauty would put them to shame
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Charles Gant: A single performance of the hit stage musical beamed to cinemas across the country edges out Denzel Washington’s action thriller
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Phil Hoad launches our new weekly series of reports with the lowdown on The Maze Runner – No 1 in 50 countries – and the latest Transformers, this year’s only $1bn blockbuster
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Charles Gant: Film adaptation of Laura Wade’s play Posh makes an unimpressive debut, while stop-frame animation The Boxtrolls retains the UK crown for a second week
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Summer 2014 scared film-makers used to breaking records with bland blockbusters, but it began a new cycle of varied successes
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Dean Burnett: With Susan Greenfield’s new book and the movie ‘Lucy’ both showing established brain myths are practically worn-out, we need some new ones, to keep neuroscientists employed
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