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Never trust a lord who asks you for money

07.10.11
Everybody loves a lord. Just look at all those hapless people taken in by Eddie Davenport, the playboy conman... more

Melancholia - review

30.09.11
Controversial director Lars von Trier has a gorgeous vision of the last days of the Earth - but the end is a long time coming ... more

Kirsten Dunst admits to depression at Melancholia premiere

29.09.11
Kirsten Dunst revealed at the premiere of her new film Melancholia that she and director Lars Von Trier shared their own experiences of depression... more

London's 25 hottest tickets

20.09.11
From Rihanna's 10-night run at the O2 to Michael Sheen's Hamlet and the London Jazz Festival, there's plenty to look forward to between now and Christmas ... more

Tying the knot isn't the greatest prize in a girl's life

07.07.11
A mere 12 days after its release - a cinematic record for me - I finally saw Bridesmaids. It was as funny as everybody said it was... more

Cannes Film Festival: Melancholia is a beautiful looking art movie

18.05.11
There is no one left at all at the end of Melancholia after a huge planet of that name, 10 times bigger than earth, hits us full on. But this is no Hollywood epic, full of special effects and clichés... more

Cannes Film Festival: Triumphs of warmth and humanity

18.05.11
Despite grandiose, and often impressive, competition entries two simple but beautifully expressed films have woken up Cannes to a different kind of cinema... more

We really do need to talk about Kevin

15.04.11
Just one British film, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, will compete for the Palme d'Or at next month's Cannes Film Festival ... more

Claudia Winkleman to share Film 2010 screen with journalist Danny Leigh

11.08.10
A movie critic will co-host Film 2010 - Jonathan Ross's former show - with Claudia Winkleman... more

Karen Gillan: just what the doctor ordered

21.05.10
Karen Gillan is a revelation as Amy Pond, the new Doctor Who's glamorous, tough-talking sidekick. Meet the temptress of the Tardis, says Matthew Sweet... more

Charlotte Gainsbourg: to hell and back

26.02.10
As the child of France’s most famous bohemians, Charlotte Gainsbourg always used art to exorcise her demons. So it is no surprise that she turned to the gory film Antichrist and the music of the MRI scanner to get over her near-death experience... more

Just Another Love Story is melodrama with humour

24.07.09
Ole Bornedal’s cryptic mixture of marital drama, horror and film noir would make most sense as an hors d’oeuvre, to be sampled just before seeing Lars von Trier’s Antichrist.... more

Antichrist is shockingly bad

24.07.09
Lars Von Trier goes all out for controversy with Antichrist - his tale of a couple wracked with sexual guilt and ends up with a pretentious abomination.... more

Censors should grow up over Brüno and sex

25.06.09
The censors can’t agree on Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest atrocity, in which he impersonates a gay Austrian fashion pundit ... more

Teenage star misses Cannes premiere after giving birth

14.05.09
The teenage star of a British film in Cannes will miss her premiere because she has just had a baby.... more

Movies to watch out for at the Cannes Film Festival

13.05.09
A total of 1,000-plus films are on offer at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Nick Roddick rounds up a few that might be worth a look... more

Loach and Cantona look for prizes at Cannes

23.04.09
Ken Loach, Eric Cantona and Andrea Arnold will fly the flag for Britain at this year’s Cannes Film Festival... more

The Cannes crew

20.04.09
We won’t know who’s made it until Thursday but for now here’s our own dream line-up... more

Where's David Brent when you need him?

28.02.08
The Boss of it All sees a Danish setting, a determinedly workshop atmosphere and lots of jumpcuts, but is like a poor rerun of The Office.... more

A crazed look at the porn industry

18.10.07
Princess - a hypnotic thriller about the evils of the porn industry - may be controversial, but get past the headline-grabbing details and you will discover something intimate and disturbing.... more

How 007 made us love him

05.02.07
Bond, Borat and British cinema - our Evening Standard film awards judges reveal how they chose the winners.... more


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