What's so impressive about Ken Loach's second film, reissued by the BFI to tie in with a two-month season of his work, is the respect paid to the whole cast... more
Oranges and Sunshine singles out the stories of Hugo Weaving's traumatised veteran and David Wenham's more aggressive younger man. Both performances are excellent... more
Route Irish is not so much a story about the war itself but about the effect such conflicts have on the hearts and minds of those who fight in them... more
The story of 100,000 taken from British children's homes to Australia and elsewhere is the subject of Jim Loach's first feature film, Oranges and Sunshine. The biggest scandal, he says, is their loss of identity... 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
Peter Mullan, whose savage drama Neds is up for an Evening Standard British Film Award on Monday, knows all about the gang culture he portrays - he has lived through most of it... more
Route Irish hammers away at its theme until you feel beaten over the head with it. Meanwhile, the urgency of Bardem’s performance as a man on the edge of despair holds Biutiful together
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Ken Loach's story, Route Irish, is like a highly personalised thriller about a city awash with American dollars and thus corruption, greed and violence.... more
Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett are expected to lend some Hollywood glamour to the Croisette as Robin Hood opens the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.... more
British hopes at the Cannes Film Festival are resting on a Frenchman. Not just any Frenchman, but a footballing genius who happens to be not bad at acting either... more
The pressure is on to emulate the surprise global success of Danny Boyle's film. Here are this year's top 10 homegrown movies that could hit the jackpot.... more
Thousands of residents - including actor Michael Palin and film director Ken Loach - have joined forces to fight plans to build a road across Hampstead Heath... more
Protesters led by actor Tom Conti lay down in the road as they tried to save a historic London street from becoming a rat run for lorries from a nearby building site... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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