Shambolic, depressed thirtysomething Eddie (Bradley Cooper) has writer's block but then stumbles across a pill that allows him to use his whole brain... more
Oscar-winning Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails isn't the only rock musician moving into the movies - Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood both have film scores out this month... more
Just as the war and British stoicism informed the Bafta- and Oscar-nominated film, so they also shaped the character of its director's family, as Tom Hooper explains to Johanna Thomas-Corr... more
Oscar favourite Colin Firth was acclaimed Actor of the Year at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards for his portrayal of stuttering monarch King George VI... more
The Old Vic director on setting his latest production in the vaults of Waterloo station, getting a CBE, his answer to the arts cuts and waiting for Woody to call... more
Hit movie The Social Network is the compelling true tale of the geeks who set up Facebook. So what happened to the group after the venture went viral? Nick Curtis reports... more
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time novelist Mark Haddon turns his attention to another kind of psychological disability in his first stage play Polar Bears.... more
All hopes are on Kate Winslet, Danny Boyle and Sally Hawkins doing at the Academy Awards what Team GB did at the Olympics, says Mike Goodridge.... more
If you have the patience David Fincher's Zodiac, a meticulously made thriller about the serial kiiller who terrified San Francisco in the Sixties and Seventies, should provide ample reward.... more
In the Nineties Robert Downey Jr almost crashed and burned. Now, with three new films about to be released, he says he is finally back from the brink.... more