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The James Clayton Column: No blockbuster season, no flops and no bombs?

James Clayton Feature May 17, 2013

As the summer movie season brings speculation about flops and bombs, James argues that, for viewers, there's no such thing as failure...

The James Clayton Column: Star Trek into Original Series lightness

James Clayton Feature May 10, 2013

The arrival of Star Trek Into Darkness has James looking back at the original series, and the moments that could appear in future movies...

The James Clayton Column: Why is Hollywood attacking America?

James Clayton Feature May 3, 2013

With Olympus Has Fallen set in the White House and Iron Man 3 featuring The Mandarin, James looks at Hollywood's attacks on US soil...

The James Clayton Column: the potential perils facing Marvel

James Clayton Feature Apr 26, 2013

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe enters phase two with Iron Man 3, James ponders the dominant position Disney has in movie entertainment...

The James Clayton Column: Rethinking remakes as original premakes

James Clayton Feature Apr 19, 2013

What if time were running backwards, and the remake of The Evil Dead actually came first? We'll let James explain this one...

The James Clayton Column: If Tom Cruise were consigned to oblivion

James Clayton Feature Apr 12, 2013

The release of Oblivion leaves James pondering the hole left in cinema had Tom Cruise never existed...

The James Clayton Column: Corrupted innocence and kids going dark

James Clayton Feature Apr 5, 2013

The release of Spring Breakers leaves James pondering the loss of childhood innocence in the movies...

The James Clayton Column: In search of savage prehistoric cinema

James Clayton Feature Mar 22, 2013

As The Croods arrives in UK cinemas, James recommends leaving civilised society behind and reveling in the freedom of being a Neanderthal...

The James Clayton Column: Welcome to the punchy title

James Clayton Feature Mar 15, 2013

With Welcome To The Punch's striking title in mind, James offers some more interesting film names for recent hits...

The James Clayton Column : Why The Wizard Of Oz is wonderful

James Clayton Feature Mar 8, 2013

In anticipation of Sam Raimi's Oz The Great And Powerful, James explains why 1939's The Wizard Of Oz is one of the finest films ever made...

The James Clayton Column: Why Russell Crowe rocks

James Clayton Feature Mar 1, 2013

To mark the release of Broken City, James trains a spotlight on the sterling work of actor Russell Crowe...

The James Clayton Column : Hansel & Gretel - sacred cow killers

James Clayton Feature Feb 22, 2013

With Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters out soon, James salutes the fact that, in cinema, no myth, legend or fairytale is sacred...

The James Clayton Column: Oscar nominees for new award categories

James Clayton Feature Feb 15, 2013

As the Academy Awards come round again, James introduces a few new Oscar categories of his own...

The James Clayton Column: Wreck-It Ralph blasts through nostalgia

James Clayton Feature Feb 8, 2013

As Wreck-It Ralph invokes videogame nostalgia, James looks at how movies tell compelling stories by delving into a rose-tinted past...

The James Clayton Column: Arnie, Stallone and Willis - the power rankings

James Clayton Feature Feb 1, 2013

With Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Willis all in cinemas this year, James takes a look at their current and forthcoming action movies...

The James Clayton Column: Searching for mystery missing villains

James Clayton Feature Jan 25, 2013

With Zero Dark Thirty in UK cinemas, James thinks back to cinema's other great mysteries and manhunts...

The James Clayton Column: Quentin Tarantino - Necromantic movie maestro

James Clayton Feature Jan 18, 2013

As Django Unchained revives the spaghetti western, James salutes Quentin Tarantino's ability to reanimate forgotten actors and genres...

The James Clayton Column: Fantasy Gangster Squad League

James Clayton Feature Jan 11, 2013

With Gangster Squad out in UK cinemas, James assembles his own fantasy gang of movie mobsters...

The James Clayton Column: Macho Les Miserables and gender-coding genres

James Clayton Feature Jan 4, 2013

As the makers of Les Misérables pitch their movie as being "for blokes as well", James ponders the topic of gender-specific genres...

The James Clayton Column: 2012 - the mirrorverse movie year

James Clayton Feature Dec 21, 2012

With 2012 drawing to a close, James looks back over the year's movies - as seen from a strange alternate universe...

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