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Imagine if you woke up tomorrow and the world had forgotten The Beatles. If you were an aspiring musician at the end of their tether you couldn’t wish for a better gift. This is the genius concept of...

T2 Trainspotting is a gritty drama dealing with the harshness of middle-age in a left-behind society. Its characters must deal with past sins, including betrayal, aggravated assault, self-loathing and drug...

Welcome to By the Book, where we compare books with their cinematic adaptations. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling, or are the authors turning in their graves through these unholy...

Trainspotting was arguably the definitive British film of the 1990s - packed to bursting with iconic scenes, and reflecting the exact state of the nation’s youth in 1996. With the sequel about to be...

The skagboys are back in town, and this time their drug of choice is not heroin, but nostalgia. Tackling sequel Porno, John Hodge delivers an intelligent adaptation that could have perhaps used some more...

1. The Flash loses its director. Again. Just four months after jumping on board, Rick Famuyiwa has departed Warner Bros’ adaptation of The Flash citing “creative differences”. According to The...

What Steve Jobs does best is selling the vision of Steve Jobs. A carnivorous, heartless ego has never looked more appealing or lonely. Fassbender is supreme, bristling with authority and an unquenchable...

Ever since Stanley Kubrick turned the sci-fi film into an art form, the rise of the intelligent sci-fi thriller - more cerebral than shoot-em-up - has been slow but steady. Now Christopher Nolan, the king of...