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And the Bafta winner is...Helena Bonham Carter's mum

14.02.11
The King's Speech actress Helena Bonham Carter dedicates award to all 'supporting wives'... more

This girl's got True Grit

11.02.11
The Coen brothers bypassed John Wayne's Oscar-winning version to go back to the original source material, cast a brilliant unknown and deliver us their latest must-see movie... more

The Shawshank Redemption: a prisoner of the big screen

14.09.09
Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns have based their stage version of The Shawshank Redemption not on Frank Darabont’s film but on the Stephen King novella that inspired Darabont... more

Who won what at Standard Film Awards

03.02.09
Irish martyrdom, Indian poverty, American politics - the judges of the Evening Standard British Film Awards faced difficult choices.... more

Love and loathing in Revolutionary Road

29.01.09
Kate Winslet's performance as a desperate housewife in Revolutionary Road puts her right up there with the best of British actors.... more

Revolutionary Road is beautifully crafted

19.01.09
Kate Winslet's performance as a thwarted Fifties housewife in Revolutionary Road is a masterpiece of understatement.... more

Now Golden Globe winners battle for Standard's British film prizes

13.01.09
Kate Winslet, Sally Hawkins and Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle are among the stars battling for honours at this year's Evening Standard British Film Awards... more

Winslet's a winner in The Reader

18.12.08
The Reader, Stephen Daldry's sensitive film of a controversial book about a former Auschwitz guard, gives Kate her best role in years.... more

DVDs of the week

03.06.08
You'll yearn to rewatch No Country for Old Men after the hauntingly enigmatic ending but don't expect the same from I think I Love My Wife.... more

The Brits really are coming

01.05.08
While British films are noticeable by their absence in the Cannes line-up, it looks like it will be a good year for our actors, directors and writers.... more

DVDs of the week

01.04.08
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, starring Brad Pitt, The Nines and Black Sheep are amongst the DVDs out this week.... more

Blood brothers leave me cold

24.01.08
There's something about the casual offing of victims in No Country for Old Men that makes critic Liz Hoggard think of boys pulling the legs off flies for sport.... more

Scarier than Hannibal

17.01.08
Javier Bardem is terrifying as the psychopath who loves blowing out people's brains in No Country for Old Men, a blood-splattered piece of classic cinema.... more

How Jesse shot to hero status

29.11.07
Brad Pitt is upstaged by his murderer in The Assassination of Jesse James, a long, poetic film that leaves many questions unanswered.... more

Brad does handsomely but Affleck steals show

04.09.07
Casey Affleck's is the best performance in a movie that's frequently impressive, sometimes dull, but about as far from the other Jessie James films as it is possible to get.... more

Masterful Coens cut to the chase

21.05.07
A tense and blood-spattered thriller, No Country For Old Men ranks alongside the Coen Brothers best work, says Derek Malcolm... more


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