Jason Korsner

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Rachel (Emily Blunt) rides the same train every day from the suburbs into Manhattan. Every day, she sits by the window and watches the same houses and the same people as she passes.

She c […]

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Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) are brothers – very different brothers – in small-town modern-day Texas.

Toby is clean-cut and respectable and had a go at being a family man, but i […]

The Raindance Film Festival is to present its inaugural Auteur Award to the veteran British director Ken Loach.

He’ll be presented with the honour at an event at the festival on 29th September, at which the […]

The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, a Fellowship, on the acclaimed British artist and director, Steve McQueen.

McQueen rose to prominence when he won the Turner Prize for modern art in 1999, with a […]

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Since we last met him, in 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, the rogue CIA hitman Jason Bourne has been off the grid, making a living bare-knuckle fighting in central Europe. But fellow ex-o […]

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USS Enterprise captain, James T Kirk (Chris Pine) is questioning whether he’s following his vocation, and considers giving up his job in favour of a promotion that will see him commanding fro […]

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Young model Jesse (Elle Fanning) is just sixteen when she arrives in LA to try to make.

Naive from the outset, her simple beauty finds her an agent who gets her jobs that other, more e […]

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It’s December 1970.

Sitting watching TV alone in his Graceland mansion, Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) – yes – THAT Elvis Presley – gets annoyed by what he’s seeing. It looks very much like […]

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This tale of tales is the telling of three dark sixteenth century fairytales, each set in neighbouring kingdoms.

In one, the Queen of Longtrellis (Salma Hayek) strikes a deal with a s […]

The distributors Entertainment One have been good enough to offer our UK readers (sorry foreign visitors) some goodies to coincide with the upcoming release of Elvis & Nixon, as the name would suggest, the rather […]

The British director Ken Loach has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time. Ten years after winning the Palme d’Or for his story of Irish nationalism, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, the […]

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Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian Jew at Auschwitz, chosen by the Nazis to be a member of the Sonderkommando; under threat of death, he and his comrades have to herd gas chamber victi […]

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Colonel Powell (Helen Mirren), from British military intelligence, has been hunting a cell of Al Shabaab terrorists for years and has finally tracked them to a safe-house in a tiny village in K […]

The Cannes Film Festival has picked one of its most regular visitors – and one of the most prolific directors – to open this year’s event, with Woody Allen returning to take centre stage on the first night for a […]

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It’s a year and a half since Superman (Henry Cavill) saved the planet from an invasion, led by his fellow Kryptonian General Zod, causing a fair amount of destruction in the process. One of the […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens won the most awards at the Empire Awards, being honoured as the Best Sci-Fi, for its visual effects, for director JJ Abrams and for its lead actors John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, […]

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?In the early 1950s, Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is a studio executive – or more accurately, a fixer – for Capitol Pictures.As he’s trying to keep the studio’s blockbusters on track and its […]

At an Oscars ceremony where there was as much talk about who was not nominated as about who was, there were a number of big surprises, not least in the top category.

Spotlight was a surprise Best Picture […]

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The fashion world has moved on in the fifteen years since the “really, really ridiculously good-looking” male models Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) were strutting their […]

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By 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) is the most in-demand screenwriter in Hollywood, but he doesn’t keep his political leanings secret. He’s a member of America’s communist party, and whi […]