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Big Hero 6 follows the young prodigy Hiro as he rebuilds the healthcare robot Baymax into a superhero. It is an odd age we live in when Disney is increasingly well known for its superhero output whilst its traditional animation ...

By the time Jupiter Ascending actually hit cinemas, most of us expected the worst. It was delayed several times for ‘script improvements’ and other vague problems as a result of performing not so well for the studio’s focus groups. As ...

Whiplash tells the story of Andrew Niemann (Miles Teller), a student and drummer at a prestigious New York conservatorium, charting his course as he falls under the sway of the overbearing and terrifying instructor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons). It is ...

Foxcatcher is a film with a lot of pedigree. Director Bennett Miller has ample chops with Capote and Moneyball under his belt; Mark Ruffalo is a redoubtable casting choice; and since Magic Mike, Channing Tatum has been setting himself up ...

Kingsman: The Secret Service is brilliant. It’s fun, fast, clever, and original within a genre that tends to fall on its laurels. The film is undeniably British, but I do hope it does well with an international audience, as I ...

I had heard of Hemlock Grove some time ago, recommended to me for the weird mystery and excellent werewolf transformations. Since then, I’ve had it recommended to me several times over. So I found it particularly interesting that after a ...

Adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s book series of the same name, Outlander is a new series for the Starz cable network. The show debuted on August 9th, 2014 and is currently on a mid-season break, starting again on April 4th. The ...

Sitting in the darkened cinema watching Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), I continued to have the same thought rolling through my mind over and over again: ‘This is brilliant.’ With each new plot twist my smile widened. I ...

Did you get a wad of cash for Christmas? Any gift vouchers for book stores? Good news is, I know exactly what you need to buy with that money. Doesn’t a story about a nun with a gun sound amazing? ...

The Thousand Dollar Tan Line is the first book in a new mystery series based on the Veronica Mars television series and film. The series is written by the show’s creator Rob Thomas with Jennifer Graham. The second book in ...