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Santa Claus. He's rather like the parent we eventually shipped off the the old folks' home after we became tired of all the loud and annoying antics. But that's not how it should be! Discovering the flaws of your loved ones should bring you together, not tear you apart — at least that's the message of Aardman Animations' Arthur Christmas. And the film's star, James McAvoy, is here to tell us why Santa Claus doesn't care about you (and why that's OK). More »
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We last saw Charles Xavier forever physically altered by his dear friend Erik Lehnsherr — so what's next for the leader of the X-Men? The actor who played the young Professor X, James McAvoy has a few ideas about Charles' future. And it starts with deflating Xavier's giant mutant ego. More »
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There are many actors who help make science fiction and fantasy awesome, but there are some faces you see again and again. And some actors just automatically brighten the screen whenever they appear. No matter what movie or TV show they're in, they make it better. More »
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Are superpowers a blessing or a curse? Are mutants more like ethnic minorities, or queer people? For too long, TV shows and movies have been asking these same old questions, without really finding any interesting answers. More »
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An odd assembling of the X-Men: First Class cast graces the cover of Total Film. Get a better look at Emma Frost's underoos, and Mystique in both mutant and "normal human" mode. More »
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Need to amuse the kiddies while you recover from your Friday-night excesses? Gnomeo and Juliet is a remarkably pleasant film to watch with a hangover, featuring tons of Shakespearean in-jokes, garden gnome slapstick and Elton John cameos. It's the sort of film that's funny when you're barely awake, and it won't make your headache any worse, even though it's in 3D. More »
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2010 was a great year for CG animated movies from the "other" studios: How To Train Your Dragon and MegaMind both rocked. But can Gnomeo & Juliet finally equal Pixar with its strange/cute retelling of Romeo and Juliet? More »
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Reports are swirling that Kevin Bacon, the affable center of the Hollywood universe, is in talks to play a baddie in X-Men: First Class. But which enemy of the X-Men will Bacon portray? We have some ideas. More »
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So Wanted ended with a pretty final resolution for Angelina Jolie's character. But she's supposedly coming back for the sequel. We asked director Timur Bekmambetov how she could return, and his answer was as simple as curving a bullet. Spoilers... More »
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Wanted is on-course to be one of the most successful R-rated movies ever: Its opening weekend was the most successful June opening for an R-rated movie, and the sixth-most successful R-rated opening in history. Now the original comic book's creator Mark Millar is talking about what to expect from the future of the Fraternity in light of the movie's success. More »
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Wanted is one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen, but also one of the most beautifully filmed. And its scream of strangulated middle-class frustration will lodge in your mind afterwards. Wanted, which opens tonight, is like a John Woo remake of Falling Down, the story of a shlubby white-collar worker who finally, violently, breaks free. Spoilers follow. More »
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You may have thought that the all-seeing, future-predicting loom of life was the craziest thing about Wanted. As it turns out, however, Mark Millar and J.G. Jones's graphic-novel-turned-film has even more implausible scenarios to feed your fantasies. For example, there's the way Wesley (James McAvoy) can "bend" the trajectory of a bullet shot from his gun. Sounds unlikely, but could a bullet in real life actually be shot in a way that would make it curve through the air? Read on to find out (very light spoilers). More »
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There was a lot of initial fan outrage that Timur Bekmambetov's movie version of Mark Millar's "If supervillains ruled the world" comic Wanted ditches the costumes, superpowers and even plot of its source material. But early reviews of the movie seem to suggest that the comic's biggest selling point - that it's a fun, dumb actioneer with pretentions to depth - still remains, but now has added gun porn, jokes and Matrix effects, to boot. More »
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In a move to gain street cred for his characters, Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov did away with the kooky superhero outfits from Mark Millar's original graphic novel. Yet he chose to include a totally bizarre plot device, the loom of life. In a new batch of Wanted pictures, you can see both Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) and Sloan (Morgan Freeman) messing about with one of these magic looms, which determine the fate of everyone. I'm going to have to call shenanigans because I, personally, believe that a man dressed up in shiny long johns is way more plausible than a fabric-of-life loom. Click through for loom-related spoilers, and more Wanted pictures. More »
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July's Wanted may be the most perfect distillation of office-drone wish-fulfillment ever, judging from this new full-length trailer. As you may have seen in the previous teaser trailers and clips, James McAvoy is a nebbish stuck in a boring white-collar job — until he finds out he has an amazing talent and a thrilling destiny. It's good to see that he doesn't spend the entire film squealing like a little boy at a summer-camp hazing. This is our first real glimpse of his transformation into a super badass, and this time the Atonement... will be yours. More »
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This new featurette about June 27's Wanted praises how true to the Mark Millar comic the super-assassin movie will be. But watching the bit where James McAvoy's character hits his boss with a computer keyboard so hard, the man's teeth and the computer's keys fly through the air and spell "FUCK YOU," it feels more like a tribute to an old Asterix comic. In any case, turns out it doesn't matter that Wanted jettisons the entire plot of Millar's comic, as long as it duplicates some of the wildest action sequences involving bullets passing through exploding heads. This featurette, courtesy of Empire Magazine, gives a good sense of just how hard Wanted works to earn its "R" rating. [Empire Online] More »
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