Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn re-team for an emotionally breathtaking, aesthetically brilliant and immensely violent thriller set amongst US expatriates in BangkokIt may not win the Palme D'Or, but it could win the Walkout D'Or, a gold trophy of a cinema-seat banged up into the upright position. Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set...

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JC Chandor’s remarkable second feature (after 2011’s Margin Call) is a story of a man lost at sea. There is only one actor (Robert Redford as the sailor) and no dialogue at all outside the short voice-over at the beginning of the film and the expletive that Redford yells in the depths of his despair.

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All the news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette on day eight of the Cannes film festival

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Baz Luhrmann's high-society adaptation had little chance of surviving a box-office collision with the Fast & Furious franchiseThe winnerIt's not unusual for film franchises to hit their commercial stride with the second or third installment: Austin Powers and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy are a couple of notable examples. But it's rare for a series to keep on building as it matures into...

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A new trailer for the Superman reboot Man of Steel has been released today.

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Look into my eyes – and help us find the best examples of mind control in filmThis week's Clip joint is by writer Nia Jones; follow her on Twitter .We've covered on clip joint, but how about scenes involving manipulation of the human brain?1. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)This adaptation of Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate is an intense political thriller with wonderful performances...

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Watching Nicolas Winding Refn’s lurid, ultra-violent and frequently preposterous Bangkok-set revenge thriller, you can’t quite believe that he once directed an episode of Miss Marple for British television. Only God Forgives is stylised, Grand Guignol filmmaking, as far removed from the world of Agatha Christie as you can imagine.

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Less camp than Terence Stamp but just as menacing, the new Kryptonian villain looks poised for a box-office bloodbathThe final trailer for forthcoming Superman reboot has debuted on the web, and this time it's all about Michael Shannon's General Zod. Essayed by Terence Stamp in Richard Donner's original 1978 Superman and its 1980 sequel, the Kryptonian supervillain's 21st-century incarnation is...

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