“I will have my vengeance, in this life or.. no, you’re basically all going to die”

God, things are sexy, aren’t they? So many things that there are, and all of them sexy. Baths, cooking, pithy conversations in a descending elevator – all you need is Anne Hathaway, some improbably witty back and forth with a chiselled titaniMAN, and boom – fruitful flesh-grappling is in the air. Except, of course, that it never is. Not really.

When you consider that Primer and A Scanner Darkly DIDN’T make it onto our list of top 10 movies that mess with your mind, doesn’t your brain hurt a little when you consider what actually did?

A dark, ambitious re-imagining of Swan Lake, with the classic ballet itself handily packed inside like an instructional Russian doll, Black Swan is visually and psychologically mesmerising. A master of suspense, Aronofsky’s sumptuous direction ensures that we never lose concentration for a moment – which, actually, may be just as well. For all its beauty, upon closer inspection it may be that there’s less originality present in Black Swan than the reviews would have us believe. But does it matter? Probably not.

We all heard the rumours last month that director Darren Aronofsky was thinking about taking on the sequel to the underwhelming Wolverine. Well kids, it seems like the myth has become fact.

From black swans to metallic mutant wolves? Director Darren Aronofky, of Pi, Requiem For A Dream and the upcoming Black Swan is in talks with Hugh Jackman about directing the sequel to Wolverine.