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Fiddler on the street: The Soloist

25.09.09
Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr as the real-life down-and-out violinist and the LA Times journalist who tries to save him.... 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

Single Guy Ritchie dines with A-list duos

20.08.09
Poor Guy Ritchie must have felt like a gooseberry last night as he dined out with a trio of A-listers and their wives... more

The London Film School conquers the world

24.07.09
With two films by recent graduates going head-to-head at the prestigious Locarno Festival, Mike Leigh's movie academy is having its best year ever.... more

Guy Ritchie's film is not an ideal Holmes show

18.02.09
Guy Ritchie has been ordered to reshoot five weeks' worth of filming on his new Sherlock Holmes movie.... more

Slumdog Millionaire ready for a bite of Oscars

09.02.09
Slumdog Millionaire looks set for an inexorable sweep to Oscars glory after storming the Orange British Academy Awards... more

Hot pubs for cool kids in London

06.02.09
Want to know where Jaime Winstone sups on Corona and Daisy Lowe gets a round in? Here's where to hang out.... more

Boy from Harrow takes on Hollywood in Baftas battle

15.01.09
A teenager from Harrow is to take on Brad Pitt in the Baftas... more

Sun, sea and Sadie at Jude’s beach birthday

29.12.08
Jude Law was celebrating his 36th birthday playing happy families with his ex-wife Sadie Frost and their children in Brazil.... more

DVDs of the week

28.10.08
Without Robert Downey Jr's winning charm Iron Man would be a disaster. ... more

There’s life after Madonna for Guy

24.10.08
Guy Ritchie could barely contain his joy as he made his first public outing since the official announcement of his divorce from the pop star... more

Ben's boys storm Tropic Thunder

18.09.08
Actor-director Ben Stiller has assembled an all-star cast for his war movie satire Tropic Thunder — but parodying Hollywood is too easy.... more

To dye for: Ben Stiller shows his dark roots at Tropic Thunder premiere

16.09.08
The cast list reads like a who's who of Hollywood comedy - with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black and Steve Coogan all vying for airtime in Tropic Thunder.... more

Sleek Katie Holmes outguns unco-ordinated Tom Cruise in the fashion stakes

12.08.08
Tom Cruise was left red-faced last night when he was outdone by wife Katie Holmes at his own film première.... more

Quirky Cameron Diaz reveals her unusually bumpy elbow

20.06.08
Cameron Diaz is well-known for her quirky looks. But it appears the actress is unique in another area, as she revealed her very bumpy elbow. ... more

Lindsay Lohan wins most embarrassing wardrobe malfunction as Young Hollywood turn out at MTV Movie Awards

02.06.08
Lindsay Lohan led the Young Hollywood charge on the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards last night, only to collect the unofficial award for most embarrassing wardrobe malfunction after being caught off guard by a gust of wind.... more

An irritating protagonist

15.05.08
Charlie Bartlett, supposedly an edgy Prozacera comedy, falls down on almost all levels; even Downey can do nothing much about it.... more

Bringing sexy back: Now Gwyneth graces premiere in a plunging AND backless jumpsuit

01.05.08
After a fortnight of red-carpet appearances distinguished by her racy choice in shoes, actress Gwyneth Paltrow revealed another area for intense scrutiny as she unveiled her highly-toned back into a plunging AND backless, tuxedo-style jumpsuit... more

Too heavy with the metal

01.05.08
Robert Downey Jr has the muscle for an action hero like Iron Man but he needs more than a clunking script and rusty clichés.... more

Revealed: How shy Gwyneth Paltrow snubbed a lavish £60,000 party in her honour

26.04.08
Hollywood moguls spared no expense when they threw an extravagant party in honour of their hard-working star Gwyneth Paltrow last week. They lavished about £60,000 on the private celebration at an exclusive London restaurant, inviting 30 of her closest friends and family and providing the finest champagne and cocktails, just as she'd requested ... more

Downey Jr shows his metal as Iron Man

25.04.08
Iron Man is not flawless but it delivers splendidly tense action sequences, a magnetic performance from Downey Jr, and Gwyneth Paltrow in tight dresses.... more

Gwyneth Paltrow wears her SEVENTH pair of kinky heels in four days (and an incredibly short dress)

24.04.08
Gwyneth Paltrow's shoe fetish continued on the red carpet last night, as she debuted yet another pair of sky-high stilettos at the London première of Iron Man. The usually-demurely dressed Gwyneth, 35, wowed the crowd of fans in a minuscule lace mini-dress, tuxedo jacket and Alexander McQueen satin heels, which showed off her amazing long legs... more

Sneak peek: Robert Downey Jr's controversial new comedy

18.03.08
The trailer for Robert Downey Jr's new comedy has been released amid controversy over the actor's casting as black man... more

DVDs of the week

25.09.07
Serial killer thriller Zodiac heads the list of this week's top DVDs.... more

A fictional picture of the past

15.03.07
Nicole Kidman plays Diane Arbus, the controversial Sixties photographer, in Steven Shainberg's fairy tale version of how her life might have been.... more

Life lived on the mean streets of Queens

01.03.07
Winner of the Critics' Week at Venice, author Dito Montiel's first film as director, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, is based on his tough upbringing in New York.... more

Robert the renaissance man

22.02.07
In the Nineties Robert Downey Jr almost crashed and burned. Now, with three new films about to be released, he says he is finally back from the brink.... more

Brad strips for art...but keeps his socks on

31.10.06
Actor Brad Pitt has shown he is socks on legs after stripping down to his underwear for avant-garde New York impresario Robert Wilson.... more

Three ways to leave your lover

21.09.06
Eros features three vaguely linked stories about love and sex from a trio of distinguished directors. It's a lip-smacking prospect that has a disappointing outcome.... more

The nightmare after tomorrow

17.08.06
Richard Linklater turns his stars into cartoons to create a cold but stylish vision of the not-too-distant future. But A Scanner Darkly suffers from a lack of real emotional involvement.... more

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