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Pixie Lott parties with Sir Ian McKellen at Variety Club Awards

16.11.09
Video: Sir Ian McKellen and Pixie Lott celebrated at the Variety Club’s ceremony at Grosvenor House.... more

Explosive portrait of a traitor’s Troubles

09.04.09
The story of real-life IRA informant Martin McGartland makes a hard-hitting thriller about the effects of war... more

Explosive portrait of a traitor’s Troubles

09.04.09
The story of real-life IRA informant Martin McGartland makes a hard-hitting thriller about the effects of war... more

Fifty Dead Men Walking is an explosive portrait of a traitor’s Troubles

09.04.09
The story of an IRA informant makes a hard-hitting thriller about the effects of war... more

Kate and the Brits toast their victory with fizz and a fry-up

23.02.09
Our homegrown stars partied into the early hours today but, at Hollywood’s biggest celebration, nothing was more intoxicating than success. Nick Curtis and John Arlidge report... more

Bafta picks out the rising stars

08.01.09
Noel Clarke, the chronicler of west London street life, and up-and-coming actress Rebecca Hall have been named faces to watch in film... more

From Harrow to Bollywood, slumdog boy takes top prize

01.12.08
Ralph Fiennes, Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley were among the stellar nominees at one of British film's most glittering celebrations. ... more

'I would have signed up for the IRA,' says American femme fatale Rose McGowan

11.09.08
Hollywood actress Rose McGowan has claimed she would have been an IRA terrorist if she had lived through the Troubles. ... more

Richard Attenborough: The film bosses wanted Gandhi to be sexy - and be played by Richard Burton

03.09.08
In the final part of his captivating memoirs, film legend Richard Attenborough recalls an epic struggle... more

Ben Kingsley is back with a bang

02.09.08
With The Wackness and Elegy in cinemas, isn’t it time to re-assess the late-flowering career of Sir Ben Kingsley?.... more

Stalker is Cate's movie choice while life's a Cabaret for Dyke

02.09.08
Cate Blanchett favours a little-known Seventies thriller, while Little Britain star Matt Lucas prefers Billy Elliot... more

Likeable losers in The Wackness

28.08.08
Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck make a convincing duo as a frustrated slacker and his shrink in Nineties New York.... more

Musclebound Jake Gyllenhaal shows his princely pecs filming action role

13.08.08
Jake Gyllenhaal is drastically broadening his horizons with his latest movie - as well as his chest. The long-haired 27-year-old has clearly spent a lot of time in the gym in preparation for his role.... more

Nothing like an old fool in Elegy

07.08.08
It's easy to see why Ben Kingsley would fall in love with Penelope Cruz but so hard to like him, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Joke is on Mike Myers in The Love Guru

31.07.08
The Love Guru seems to have virtually no script at all, but a number of set pieces which vie with each other for lack of wit.... more

Shabby and chic: Sleek Reese Witherspoon outsmarts Jake Gyllenhaal's 'homeless style'

08.07.08
It was a case of shabby AND chic as sleek Reese Witherspoon stepped out with boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal in London last night.... more

DVDs of the week

15.04.08
The Mike Leigh feature Film Collection is a reminder of the writer/director's brilliance, Movin' On Up celebrates Curtis Mayfield and Enchanted brings us a modern fairytale.... more

The curious case of Samantha Morton's stroke

15.03.08
This week, Samantha claimed it took her 18 months to recover from a near-fatal stroke. So why was the actress at a string of showbiz parties just weeks after she 'collapsed'?... more

The queen of the new King's Head

11.03.08
When Dan Crawford died in 2005 the future looked grim for the King's Head. Now his widow, Stephanie, has turned around the fortunes of London's original pub theatre.... more

Julia lacking in quality

11.02.08
At the Berlin Film Festival, Julia is an overblown, melodramatic film and too long at well over two hours.... more

Hitman with no bottle

06.12.07
Ben Kingsley stars as an alcoholic hitman in You Kill Me, a comedy that is admirably determined never to become a parody.... more

Backs to Hadrian's Wall

18.10.07
TV director Doug Lefler has bitten off more than he can chew with The Last Legion - an action movie set during the last years of the Roman Empire.... more

Pinter is back with a vengeance

23.02.07
The explosion of interest in Harold Pinter plays has reached a new level with the Donmar Warehouse announcing a revival of adultery drama Betrayal.... more

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