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THE COUNTDOWN: Remember the time Chris Evans spent his Marvel hiatus directing a romantic comedy? Of course you don’t – because it was one in a long lineage of speedily forgotten flops directed by overly indulged movie stars, writes Tom Fordy

The origin point for all modern psychological horror can be traced back to three classic Hitchcock thrillers.

Before Netflix became the hub of reality shows and streaming slop, it was the home of bold genre TV like the Wachowskis' 'Sense8.'

Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' almost fell apart thanks to studio meddling. But now, with a new Criterion release, it's considered an all-time sci-fi classic.

'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' secretly changed the modern blockbuster as we know it. And it's now available on 4K Blu-ray.

THE COUNTDOWN: Not everything can be ‘The Big Lebowski’ or ‘Clueless’, as proven by the absolute trainwrecks that passed through cinemas in the Nineties billing themselves as comedies. Ed Power surveys the worst of them, from the Culkin-less ‘Home Alone 3’ to the Bill Cosby ghost film no one (thankfully)…

'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' may not be a great movie. But you could never call it boring.

What if I told you 'Johnny Mnemonic' is better than 'The Matrix'?

THE COUNTDOWN: As the man behind ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ and ‘Asteroid City’ unveils his latest film, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, Clarisse Loughrey ranks the output so far from one of modern cinema’s most aesthetically rich and emotionally astute filmmakers

'Tomorrowland' was never the family-friendly crowdpleaser that Disney hoped for. But that's a good thing.

'Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist' was Paul Schrader’s original version of the retooled 'The Exorcist: The Beginning.' In the end, 'Dominion' prevailed.