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Jamie Bell's Tintin injury

30.09.11
Jamie Bell "threw a rib out" while shooting Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn'... more

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes - review

12.08.11
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes revives the franchise in the form of another "origins" story, to put alongside X-Men, Thor, Captain America, Green Lantern, et al. This one's different though - it's a cracker... more

Stephen Fry leads campaign to keep Southwark playhouse on track

04.08.11
Stephen Fry calls on Londoners to lobby Network Rail to secure the future of Southwark Playhouse ... more

It's a British blockbuster summer

25.05.11
There's a major movie opening almost every week from now until the end of the holidays. They may be made in Hollywood, Charlotte O'Sullivan reports, but they feature an interesting array of homegrown talent too... more

Brighton Rock is a noir that's not dark enough

04.02.11
A sixties set adaptation on the original movie that starred Sir Richard Attenborough as Pinkie... more

Blimey Burke & Hare - we was robbed

29.10.10
Burke & Hare is an excursion into Ealing comedy territory with a smart cast led by Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the two hopeless 19th-century grave-robbers... more

Danny Boyle honoured with BFI Fellowship

28.10.10
Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle was honoured by the UK movie industry last night as he was awarded a British Film Institute Fellowship... more

Isla Fisher hid pregnancy from her co-stars in Burke and Hare

26.10.10
Burke and Hare actress Isla Fisher revealed that she only pretended to squeeze into a corset for the period comedy because she was three months pregnant during filming... more

Isla Fisher's My London

22.10.10
Actress Isla Fisher braves the music in Topshop, drinks cocktails on Kingsland Road and would like to behead Boris Johnson... more

Andy Serkis lords it in new game

05.10.10
Lord of the Rings star has joined forces with Alex Garland, author of The Beach, and musician Nitin Sawhney to create a new computer game... more

Sound Check: London on song

05.03.10
A host of musicians pay tribute to the capital at the Barbican next week — but what is it that makes a great London tune?... more

Anne-Marie Duff 'blown away' by Evening Standard Film Award

09.02.10
A star-studded ceremony celebrated the best in British film at the Evening Standard Film Awards.... more

British cinema's rock'n'roll year celebrated in Evening Standard Film Awards

09.02.10
Three anarchic rockers, a misfit teen and a foul-mouthed politico were celebrated at the Evening Standard Film Awards. ... more

Bond Girl Eva Green to present top Evening Standard movie award

05.02.10
A roll-call of stars will bring James Bond glamour and quirky individualism to the London Evening Standard British Film Awards next week.... more

BBC v blockbuster as An Education goes up against Avatar at Baftas

21.01.10
Video: The small-budget BBC drama, An Education, faces a David-and-Goliath battle against James Cameron’s £180m blockbuster Avatar at this year’s Baftas after both receive eight nominations... more

Britain’s bright stars up for London Evening Standard British Film Awards

20.01.10
Art house hits such as Bright Star will compete with blockbuster Sherlock Holmes in this year's awards... more

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a farrago of brilliant nonsense

08.01.10
In a performance of a lifetime, Andy Serkis brings Ian Dury back to thrilling, witty, wild life in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll ... more

Hit me with your rhythm stick! Chris Martin turns out for Ian Dury biopic

07.01.10
Chris Martin, James Jagger and Emilia Fox were guests at the first screening last night of the new Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll... more

Opening this week

04.01.10
Andy Serkis (previously known for playing Gollum) inhabits the late great Ian Dury, the Essex-born rabble-rouser who led the Blockheads... more

Quentin Tarantino honoured for "excellence" at film awards

22.12.09
Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino will receive an "excellence" gong at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.... more

Little Dorrit steals the show with seven Emmys

21.09.09
The BBC's Little Dorrit won seven Emmy Awards for Britain at American television's equivalent of the Oscars... more

Inkheart has great cast but lacks character

11.12.08
Inkheart is a noisy fantasy directed by British film-maker Iain Softley and based on the bestselling book by Cornelia Funke.... more

The ones to watch: new Little Dorrit leads Vogue's list

08.09.08
A young actress who left drama school last year has been heralded as the face to watch after landing the lead role in the BBC's autumn blockbuster... more

Bond girl Gemma to play Tess Of The d'Urbevilles as TV turns back to costume dramas

20.08.08
It is a truth universally acknowledged - especially among female viewers - that you can never have too many costume dramas. ... more

What's new on television this autumn? Austen, Hardy and Dickens

20.08.08
You could call them credit crunch classics - reliable dramas for worrying times... more

DVDs of the week

15.07.08
Deep questions rumble in There Will Be Blood, I'm Not There requires multiple viewings and Stewart Lee makes us laugh.... more

Blue blistering Barnacles, it's the new Tintin

28.03.08
A south London sixth-former has landed the role of Tintin in a major movie adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg... more

Gore and giggles at The Cottage

13.03.08
The Cottage shows Paul Andrew Williams is a good film-maker by the classy way it is made; but it's still not a very good movie.... more

Guns and poses

23.08.07
Based on Dominic Leyton's play Collison, Sugarhouse ventures into territory few British films care to go.... more

Edinburgh Festival highlights

24.07.07
From theatre to comedy, music and film, our critics pick the best of the Edinburgh Festival.... more


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