You may have found Neds, Peter Mullan's gritty film about working-class delinquents in Glasgow tough going. Compared with Tyrannosaur, it was a romp, a teddy bears' picnic... more
You may not recognise them yet but these young British actors are tipped to become superstars The hotlist has been drawn up by movie industry magazine Screen International- and it includes several Londoners... more
The end of the weekend has just become bearable again. Into the gap left by Downton Abbey steps TV drama Any Human Heart — starring the original book’s biggest fan... more
They may have to do without blockbuster budgets and expensive premieres but a host of movie stars are appearing in short films at this year’s BFI London Film Festival... more
The director of 24 and a bestselling crime writer have teamed up with David Morrissey to give London its own cult detective. Here the actor tells Liz Hoggard how he created autumn’s hottest TV show
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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
You may want to throttle her but no one can deny that Sally Hawkins's performance as the irrepressible Poppy in Mike Leigh's upbeat Happy-Go-Lucky is a tour de force.... more
Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Carl Hunter, Grow Your Own clearly intends to use the allotment as a microcosm of society and has gentle, sometimes whimsical digs at present discontents.... more
Life on an allotment is like an Ealing comedy, says Valentine Low, who tends his own plot in East Acton. So what does he make of a new British film about urban gardeners, Grow Your Own?... more
Stephen Surjik's I Want Candy, about a group of students trying to make an intelligent porno movie, isn't even as sophisticated as the films it's taking a dig at.... more
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