You may have found Neds, Peter Mullan's gritty film about working-class delinquents in Glasgow tough going. Compared with Tyrannosaur, it was a romp, a teddy bears' picnic... more
Plan B's Brits triumph was a liftime in the making, drawing on his angry teenage years spent drug-dealing, cell-hopping and body popping. Hermione Eyre meets Ben Drew, music's new messiah... more
Between them, BBC Films’ Christine Langan, C4’s Tessa Ross and UK Film Council’s Tanya Seghatchian can lay some claim to 33 of the nominations for
Sunday’s Baftas. Does this mean that talent spotting and nurturing is women’s work, Nick Curtis asks them... more
British film-maker Shane Meadows returns with this low-budget improvised comedy, which follows a roadie called Le Donk and his rapper lodger Scor-Zay-Zee.... more
Big Brother is to be axed after a final series next summer. The popularity of the reality show has plummeted, with viewing figures for the current series barely reaching two million... more
The winners of the Golden Globes are yet to be named, and the Oscar nominations are still to come - but one British actress has already collected a string of awards this year.... more
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more
Shane Meadows's new film Somers Town, funded by Eurostar, opens tomorrow. Set in the rundown neighbourhood between the euston, St Pancras and King's Cross stations, it tackles homelessness, urban friendship and the area's migrant population. And yet Meadows gives the city a raw beauty. At times London resembles the Left Bank of Paris... more
British actresses were sensationally snubbed at the Baftas in favour of an unknown French starlet. Julie Christie and Keira Knightley both lost out in the best actress category to Marion Cotillard, the 32-year-old star of La Vie En Rose about the life of the Parisian singer Edith Piaf... more
Shane Meadows delves deeper into his own past in This Is England, his extraordinary new film about a lonely 12-year-old who finds comfort from a gang of skinheads.... more
The Brits threaten to clean up at the Oscars - but can our film industry sustain the good form? Charlotte O'Sullivan looks ahead to the movies that could take next year's prizes.... more
This is England sees British director Shane Meadows at his best with outstanding performances from 12-year-old Thomas Turgoose and Stephen Graham.... more
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