It's 25 years since Die Hard was released. Yippee-ki-yay to that, says Tim Walker

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Looper (15)

“This time-travel crap, just fries your brain like a egg...” maintains Jeff Daniels's cerebral thug, and the first hour of this mind-bending sci-fi is a little too mind-frying.

Editorial: Today's fish and chip paper?

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Die Hard trailer equations (or, explosive maths)

The trailer for A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth film in the Die Hard, er, trilogy, has just been released. Here's all you need to know about it in numbers:

Bruce Willis plays a sheriff leading a search party in 'Moonrise Kingdom'

Man with the child in his style

Wes Anderson's films are as formally distinctive as Peter Greenaway's, and sometimes as maddening. They are pictorial things, but less in the way of a film than, say, a graphic novel. Where Greenaway thinks like a painter, Anderson uses the camera like a cartoonist, each frame hyper-composed in colour and composition, an eccentric mini-work of art in itself. What the frames don't have is much sense of physical or emotional movement from one to another. It's the same with the dialogue. People in Wes World don't overlap in their conversation – a character says something, then there's a pause, then another character replies. Again, it's like the thin white lines dividing one box from another in a comic strip. Some find the effect very charming.

Moonrise Kingdom (12A)

Wes Anderson, 94mins. Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Edward Norton

Someone's late for dinner at Wes Anderson's 1965 scout camp, set in New Penzance

Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, 100 mins, 12A

Two romantic runaways from scout camp try to keep ahead of the all-star posse on their trail

Shining stars: Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton and Bruce Willis in Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom'

Tarantino of the 2000s who's out of this world

Cannes curtain-raiser Wes Anderson is still the king of quirk, says Tim Walker

Shining stars: Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton and Bruce Willis in Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom'

Tarantino of the 2000s who's out of this world

Cannes curtain-raiser Wes Anderson is still the king of quirk

Marcos Baghdatis's racket-smashing antics caught the eye of Jimmy Connors

Melbourne Diary: Novak – The Movie

There were times in the past when Novak Djokovic's appetite for a battle was called into question, but the fighting qualities the Serb showed in winning three Grand Slam titles last year and becoming world No 1 have been recognised in Hollywood. Djokovic is making his screen debut in The Expendables 2, which is due to be released later this year.

DVD: Armored (12)

Nimrod Antal neatly sets up this this heist thriller before allowing everything to unravel in the last 15 minutes.

Guy Adams: The latest Bruce Willis flop shows why Disney's boss got fired

The weekend's US box office figures provide a very topical illustration of the harsh financial realities that lay behind the recent cloak-and-dagger sacking of Disney’s studio head Dick Cook.

Guy Adams: Bruce Willis gets married, Demi Moore's bottom gets Twittered

There’s a touch of genius about the way Demi Moore has subtly managed to upstage her ex-husband Bruce Willis (pictured together above), while also staying publicly matey with him, throughout the nine years since their divorce.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG)

Coming from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production stable, this family comedy initially had me assuming the brace position.

Nothing To Lose, by Lee Child

How I fell for an utterly addictive anti-hero with arms the size of Popeye's
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