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The Beautiful and the Pointless

By Esmé Holden

If sex scenes, or any other type of scene, don’t need to serve the plot, do they need to serve anything at all?

The Old Rose scenes in Titanic are important, actually

By Yasmin Omar

As James Cameron’s generation-defining blockbuster turns 25, it’s high time to reconsider the narrative value of the film’s often-maligned framing device.

Avatar: The Way of Water

By David Jenkins

A gaudy blue folly which encapsulates James Cameron’s strength as an image-maker, but weakness as a storyteller.

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Why it’s high time we started appreciating the art of 3D cinema

By Ben Schwartz

As Avatar 2: The Way of Water heads into cinemas, it's worth reconsidering the strange, polarising world of 3D, and what it can bring to the big screen.

50 films to look forward to for the rest of 2022

By Hannah Strong

Halfway through the year, we offer up 50 upcoming movies to keep on your radar.

Plug your ponytail into the first trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water

By Charles Bramesco

Kate Winslet, Michelle Yeoh, and Edie Falco are among the additions to the sci-fi mega-franchise’s cast.

Avatar will reclaim its all-time box office record with a Chinese re-release

By Charles Bramesco

Put that in your Infinity Gauntlet and smoke it, Avengers: Endgame!

The 100 Best Films of the 2000s: 100-76

By Little White Lies

Part one of our bumper survey of the noughties, featuring Avatar, Borat! and Requiem for a Dream.

The 30 best films of 2019

By Little White Lies

Counting down our favourite feature-length releases from the past 12 months.

How Sarah Connor kept the Terminator franchise running

By Amanda Keats

Linda Hamilton’s return in Dark Fate reminds us why her complex heroine is so vital to the series.

Edward Furlong will return to the Terminator franchise for Dark Fate

By Charles Bramesco

The actor is finally old enough to reprise his T2: Judgement Day role.

James Cameron: ‘Soon we’ll have AI creating movies – and it’ll suck’

By David Jenkins

One of the most successful filmmakers of all time talks Alita: Battle Angel, Avatar and the future of cinema.

Alita: Battle Angel

By David Jenkins

Robert Rodriguez’s latest is that rare beast: a throwback, effects-driven science fiction epic that runs on an infectious sense of fun.

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Halloween and the art of retconning a franchise

By Victoria Luxford

Why pretending the past never happened can be the best thing for a film series and its fans.

Every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie – ranked

By Little White Lies

From Commando to Conan, Terminator to Twins, we size up the cultural icon’s ample body of work.

How the Alien saga went from trilogy to franchise

By Ethan Vestby

Ever since its unlikely resurrection in the late ’90s, the sci-fi horror series has continued to evolve.

Everything we know about Avatar 2

By Eve Watling

Sigourney Weaver’s return plus other early details about James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi sequel.

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