Action and adventure
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Sony aims for an Avengers-style franchise as Disney announces its revisionist take on the legendary outlaw
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Wong Kar-wai’s strained story about Bruce Lee’s trainer lacks the emotional power of his best work, says Peter Bradshaw
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James Luxford: While Marvel continued to turn out films with darker themes and sharper writing, other superheroes and sci-fi villains have had trouble keeping up
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Info dump on 4chan from alleged Lucasfilm employee puts new film on a par with 1977’s Star Wars and claims JJ Abrams is locked in battle with Disney over key issues
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Sony and MGM are have announced the name (Spectre) and cast (yep, Christoph Waltz) for the new James Bond movie. Stuart Heritage followed the excitement
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The second instalment of the trilogy is padded out with superfluous characters and a plot that deprives us of swordplay, writes Mike McCahill
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Review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 review – Seymour Hoffman brings wit and gravitas to a spiky media satire
4 / 5 starsThe penultimate instalment of The Hunger Games franchise is lower on action than its predecessors, writes Mark Kermode -
Idris Elba’s star power isn’t enough to save this thriller that deserves to go straight to DVD, writes Mark Kermode
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The Guardian Film Show The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Homesman, Winter Sleep and Get On Up: the Guardian film show – video reviews
Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard join Xan Brooks to review the week's big releases
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Parent to a legion of crap imitations – I blame it for Shrek – the hype over Tarantino’s film renders it almost meaningless. So, would I go back and strangle it at birth, asks Stuart Heritage
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Japanese actor known for playing the tough outsider in action and gangster movies
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Ben Child: Reports from Batman v Superman suggest Zack Snyder is shooting the iconic Wayne parents’ murder scene. Why?
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The Equalizer, John Wick and The November Man are just the latest films with Russian gangsters. Joe Queenan dissects Hollywood’s most predictable casting cliche
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News: According to the Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, the shoot for Bond 24 will begin in the next few weeks, with two-time Oscar winner Waltz set to play a conflicted character
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Students aim to raise £40,000 for fan film about a wizard expelled from Hogwarts with crowdfunding campaign
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Forget the five-star reviews and out-of-this-world technical wizardry – Alfonso Cuarón’s epic space odyssey is the cinematic equivalent of a drum solo, writes Alan Evans
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Director Francis Lawrence manages to thrill despite working with a thin story, creaky script and limp special effects
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Star and director’s decision to work together on new Bourne project throws Jeremy Renner’s offshoot into doubt, writes Luke Holland
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Tom Cruise has been pictured hanging off the side of a plane while filming Mission Impossible 5, while Christopher Nolan frequently rejects digital trickery. But is their quest for the ‘real’ worth taking?
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Trailer park Fast and Furious 7: watch Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in the trailer for the car racing action film - video
Watch the trailer for Fast & Furious 7, the last of the franchise to feature star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash while the film was in production
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s accident-chasing cameraman is a direct descendant of characters in classics such as Network, Broadcast News and even Anchorman. Steve Rose scans cinema history for a small-screen newshound who isn’t an amoral egomaniac
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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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Hollywood is set to saturate cinemas with high-octane superhero films until 2019, but Marvel pioneered the “universe” concept and its newly-announced slate of interlinked films looks ready to outpower the rest.
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This second world war drama is a rousing, old-fashioned film, even if it doesn’t live up to the hype, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Keanu Reeves blasts back in a full-throttle action film that twists the conventions of the genre to exhilarating effect, writes Jordan Hoffman
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The original James T Kirk has mooted the possibility of a return with threequel director Roberto Orci
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Trailer leaks online, a week before intended preview, but Marvel follow up by tweeting official HD version within hours
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This Japanese live-action version of the manga and anime classic has a fun futuristic spin, even if the dialogue and performances are stilted, writes Anna Smith
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David Ayer’s film, set in a tank at the tail end of the second world war, adds kerching to kaboom, finally knocking Gone Girl of the American box office top spot
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Producer Michael Bay’s attempt at repackaging the recurrent reptiles in live-action form is over-rehearsed, insubstantial, shiny and empty, writes Mike McCahill
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What you should watch this week Why you might like to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this week - video review
The 80s cartoon about the crimefighting reptiles has got an all-action reboot courtesy of Michael Bay, and Andrew Pulver explains why it might be worth watching
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Julius Avery’s debut feature is slow in patches with wonky writing but is handsomely packaged and shows off his potential, writes Luke Buckmaster
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Can you identify the real-life whistleblowers whose stories have inspired films?
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Downey to be given prominent role in third Captain America film, which will see Steve Rogers and Tony Stark on opposite sides in the Marvel civil war
Topics
- Science fiction and fantasy
- Drama
- Marvel
- Superhero movies
- Thriller
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Comics and graphic novels
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
- John Wick
- Crime
- JJ Abrams
- The Equalizer
- James Bond
- Most overrated films
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Brad Pitt
- Fury
- Keanu Reeves
- George Clooney
- Robert Downey Jr