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Video: Jim Carrey launches festival of Christmas lights in London

04.11.09

With 51 shopping days still to go, the Christmas lights in Oxford Street and Regent Street were switched on simultaneously for the first time.... more

Colin Firth set to switch on Regent Street lights

03.11.09

Regent Street Christmas lights will be switched on tonight with Colin Firth pushing the button and The Noisettes performing.... more

A Single Man has coolness bordering on the chilly

16.10.09

Colin Firth gives an impeccably restrained performance in the lead role of A Single Man, an accomplished period piece from Tom Ford ... more

Opening in London this week

12.10.09

Leona Lewis showcases her new album at the Hackney album, A Christmas Carol premieres and Architecting comes to the Barbican.... more

Dorian Gray: a movie for teenagers

11.09.09

Dorian Gray is based on Oscar Wilde’s short novel, which tells the story of a beautiful, innocent boy corrupted by praise and prose... more

Contenders for the top prize at Venice Film Festival

11.09.09

A-list stars and A-grade films have distinguished this year’s Venice festival. Lee Marshall looks at who is in the running for the big prize tomorrow... more

Revealed: The greenest bike ever made

17.06.09

A Ł3,000 bamboo bike is unveiled as the ultimate green statement for commuters worried that even their cycling damages the planet... more

M&S lines up behind ban on endangered bluefin tuna

09.06.09

Marks & Spencer is to switch to using only pole and line caught tuna in its entire range of food ... more

My three minutes with Brad Pitt in Cannes

22.05.09

While Angelina Jolie's back was turned, our intrepid reporter Olivia Cole made a beeline for her teenage crush. So what did he say?... more

In love with Mad Men's Betty Draper

12.05.09

Dear, dear Betty Draper... how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Lame as it may be to fall in love with a television character, I know that I am hardly alone... more

All-star cast to perform in Pinter tribute

08.05.09

Jude Law, Alan Rickman and Colin Firth will head an all-star tribute to playwright Harold Pinter next month... more

Winterbottom at his haunting best in Genova

26.03.09

Not a lot happens in Michael Winterbottom's family drama Genova but he skilfully provides what detail there is and leaves the viewer to supply the rest.... more

Unbelievable Coward in Easy Virtue

06.11.08

Easy Virtue purports to be about the fading aristo lifestyle after the First World War and the injection into it of American flash.... more

Jessica slips into Easy Virtue

29.10.08

How clever of director Stephan Elliott to cast Jessica Biel in Noel Coward’s critique of English snobbery, says Nick Curtis.... more

Film festival begins with a premiere of Frost

15.10.08

The London Film Festival kicks off with the premiere of Frost/Nixon just yards from where it was originally staged as a play at the Donmar Warehouse... more

Love lessons in Then She Found Me

18.09.08

Everyone acts decently and you have to praise Helen Hunt for her tenacity. But Then She Found Me suffers from some fairly dire cinematography.... more

Colin Firth is ideal in this haunting tale of family loss

09.09.08

Toronto Film Festival: Trust Michael Winterbottom to make his family film, Genova, an eerie and unsettling ghost story... more

Pick your winners for cinema's glittering awards

31.07.08

The time is right for a new set of film awards, and devoted readers of the Daily Mail have helped to make 2008 a golden year for movies at the British box office.... more

Mamma Mia! Abba reunite for the first time in 22 years for film premiere

04.07.08

Pop supergroup Abba have reunited for the first time in 22 years for the premiere of hit musical Mamma Mia!... more

Mamma Mia...It makes you want to dance in the cinema

01.07.08

Mamma Mia! is ultimately a triumph; an ironical, seriously camp musical that eschews showbiz polish and instead celebrates fallible human beings and their need for pleasure. ... more

You can keep those Bond girls! How Brosnan's wife took the plunge on the red carpet

01.07.08

As a former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan could have been forgiven for thinking he might have been the star attraction at last night's premiere of Mamma Mia!... more

Mamma Mia... it makes you want to dance

01.07.08

Mamma Mia is ultimately a triumph; an ironical, seriously camp musical that eschews showbiz polish and celebrates fallible human beings.... more

Mama Mia! Scarlet woman Meryl Streep turns the blue carpet red at film premiere

30.06.08

She may be nearing 60 but Meryl Streep showed that she still had that extra something as she arrived for the the UK premiere of her new movie Mamma Mia.... more

Bond wipes out: Pierce Brosnan comes a cropper in the Maui surf

13.06.08

It shouldn't happen to an 007. Former action star Pierce Brosnan famously did many of his own stunts in the Ian Fleming series. But maybe he could have done with a stunt man as he came a cropper while paddling to shore on his surf board ... more

Mamma Meryl! Get ready for an Abba singalong with the summer's most unexpected hit movie

12.06.08

Meryl Streep delivers the goods on Abba's classics and takes them from the West End to Hollywood with her athletic vibrant character. ... more

Ł1,000 'beggars banquet' stars Mick Jagger

14.03.08

It was the charity banquet with a difference, a £1,000-ahead five-course meal made of ingredients all grown, plucked or fished from in and around London... more

Screwball with a screw loose

28.02.08

The Accidental Husband is a terrible romantic comedy, looking like a bad Bollywood movie without the songs.... more

Fiery date in London for Uma Thurman

14.02.08

Uma Thurman enjoyed an early Valentine's date with Colin Firth and six firemen at the London premiere of her new film The Accidental Husband.... more

Backs to Hadrian's Wall

18.10.07

TV director Doug Lefler has bitten off more than he can chew with The Last Legion - an action movie set during the last years of the Roman Empire.... more