Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is a true labor of love for the filmmaker. We’ve seen him tackle mainstream blockbuster material with Pacific Rim and Hellboy, but this new, surreal love story has more in common with his adored 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth.

It holds the same gentle dark fantasy backbone, using dense colours to tell its story, which follows a mute woman, Eliza (Sally Hawkins), who works as a janitor in a mysterious government laboratory. She keeps in the background,…
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20th Century Fox is reportedly looking to cast a Man of Steel star as Cable in Deadpool 2.
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Many people have been to the cinema, got comfy in their seat and sat back to enjoy the film only to drop off for some sleep. A-list actors have such “normal” problems too, even Michael Shannon (<strong>Nocturnal Animals</strong>) has admitted to doing so recently on a plane trip.
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As you’ll probably already have sussed out, General Zod – Superman’s arch-nemesis from Man of Steel – is making a comeback of sorts in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: in the trailer, we briefly see the Kryptonian commander in a body bag. Clearly, the villain is still dead – but according to Shannon, he may be a corpse, but he can still have a few lines. Speaking to Cinema Blend, he revealed:

‘Yeah, I say some stuff… But not a whole lot! I mean, I am dead. I’m just like a ghost. It’s…

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Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is a true labor of love for the filmmaker. We’ve seen him tackle mainstream blockbuster material with Pacific Rim and Hellboy, but this new, surreal love story has more in common with his adored 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth.

It holds the same gentle dark fantasy backbone, using dense colours to tell its story, which follows a mute woman, Eliza (Sally Hawkins), who works as a janitor in a mysterious government laboratory. She keeps in the background,…
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There is something to be said about a late 19th Century period drama that holds attention and meanders around three of the most influential men in history. Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) — all iconic giants of race to illuminate the world. A brisk, pivotal slice of their legacies are on display in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War. Here we have a clash of geniuses, they stop at nothing to reign supreme, taking…
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Fashion icon Tom Ford follows up his superb debut film A Single Man with the equally sublime drama, Nocturnal Animals — packed with the same keen attention to detail, beautiful colours and chilling, yet delicate storytelling.

Ford’s second turn in Hollywood is a picture supported by its ultra talented A-List cast. Amy Adams stars as introspective art dealer Susan Morrow. She’s on her second marriage, worries that her mother’s cynicism has cursed her life and she can’t seem to…
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Jeff Nichols’ Loving is an emotional, political and handsomely crafted period drama.
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12 Strong features a strong cast featuring Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals), Michael Pena (Ant-Man) and Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight). It chronicles the first group of soldiers who were sent to war after 9/11.
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An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forver when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.
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An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.

Read our review of the film here.
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A psychosexual noir love story, set in Las Vegas and Paris, about love, obsession, sex, betrayal, revenge and, ultimately, the search for redemption.
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