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Venice Film Festival: Star attractions

26.08.11
The Venice Film Festival opens next week with the most glamorous line-up for years. Derek Malcolm previews the biggest draws... more

Abbie Cornish - meet Nicole Kidman's greatest rival

08.04.11
Bright Star Abbie Cornish is the most exciting thing to have come out of the outback since Nicole Kidman - and she can break dance too... more

Sucker Punch lives up to its name

01.04.11
If smart imagery were what film is principally about, Zack "300" Snyder's epic fantasy would be a match for Citizen Kane... more

Limitless starts on a high but ends on a downer

25.03.11
Shambolic, depressed thirtysomething Eddie (Bradley Cooper) has writer's block but then stumbles across a pill that allows him to use his whole brain... more

Vanessa Hudgens comfort eats

18.02.11
High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens turned to comfort eating after the stress of her new film, Sucker Punch... more

Legend of the Guardians is an owl's tale

22.10.10
You wouldn’t expect Zack Snyder, of 300 and Watchmen fame, to make an animated film about owls but he is responsible for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole ... more

Has Madonna's Wallis Simpson obsession gone too far?

23.07.10
Control-freak divorcées, fashion obsessives and sexual predators- Madonna and Wallis Simpson have a lot in common. But is the Material Girl the right person to bring the Duchess of Windsor's colourful life to the big screen?... 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

A captivating love story in Bright Star

06.11.09
Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan... more

Bright Star is a touching tale of Keats' brief love

19.10.09
Though by no means old-fashioned and in some ways thoroughly modern, Bright Star is a telling of a tragic story that doesn't play too many tricks with history... more

British movie heaven - the Brit flicks heading our way

18.09.09
John Lennon, Charles Darwin, John Keats and Heath Ledger are all coming soon in a bumper crop of homegrown releases... more

Hot tickets: The London Film Festival

17.09.09
The first wave of the BFI's ever-complicated booking system opens for next month's London Film Festival, which has one of its best-ever line-ups... more

Is a New Women's Cinema emerging?

17.07.09
Female film-makers are making a big impact at the movies. Does this mean, asks Courtney Hunt, director of Oscar-nominated Frozen River, that we are seeing a New Women's Cinema emerge?... more

Jane Campion makes Bright Star a thing of beauty

15.05.09
Jane Campion has made a beautiful film out of the sad story of John Keats’s hopeless romance with Fanny Brawne.... more

Casualty of war

24.04.08
Boys Don't Cry director Kimberly Peirce suggests that war affects even good soldiers badly on their return home in her latest film, Stop-Loss.... more

Queen of the screen

01.11.07
Cate Blanchett is the perfect Elizabeth I in a beautiful-looking sequel. But seeing isn't always believing as regards the history.... more

Blanchett rules the big screen

11.09.07
Cate Blanchett could well be competing with herself come the awards season, thanks to a bravura performance in Elizabeth.... more

Heaven, Hell and heroin

02.11.06
Australian film Candy stars Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as young artists and lovers who can't leave heroin alone.... more

An unbelievable year in Provence

26.10.06
Ridley Scott directs Russell Crowe in A Good Year, a film that leaves the viewer feeling that it would be fun to leave the real world behind and bask in wine, food and women in Provence.... more


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