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Notorious is gangsta pap

12.02.09

A fictionalised version of rap star Biggie's life — and death — reinvents its cast of tough characters as good guys in Notorious.... more

Chris Waitt is a Likeable loser in love

26.06.08

Chris Waitt's documentary A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures is a confessional; following his search for ex-girlfriends who can explain why they dumped him.... more

Warring fictions in Iraq

13.03.08

Director Brian De Palma's controversial account of the Iraq war, Redacted, mixes real and staged footage to powerful effect.... more

Oh! What a horrible war

31.01.08

Nick Broomfield's fictionalised account of the massacre of 24 Iraqis by avenging US Marines, Battle for Haditha, is the first great war film to come out of the conflict.... more

The soldiers' story

03.01.08

Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha casts real ex-servicemen to portray one of the most shocking incidents to emerge from the conflict in Iraq.... more

For the love of film

03.05.07

Rottentomatoes is the latest movie website to expand with a special UK version. You can find out everything you need to know about cinema on the internet - but where to look?... more

DVDs of the week

17.04.07

Brit rom-com Starter For 10, The Best Of Saturday Live, Ghosts, and the true story of an English eccentric's quest to sail round the world, are all released on DVD this week.... more

Who's to blame for Morecambe Bay?

11.01.07

Charlotte O'Sullivan is glued to Ghosts, Nick Broomfield's dramatisation of the 2004 tragedy in which 21 Chinese cockle pickers died.... more

The man who made Idi human

11.01.07

While filming The Last King of Scotland, director Kevin Macdonald sat in tyrant Idi Amin's chair, used his pool and even blew up his old limo.... more

Hungry for answers

27.10.06

Thin focuses on the women at the Renfrew Centre, a Florida facility that attempts to get anorexics and bulimics back on track, but it's not a good ad for the work that goes on there.... more

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Lenny Henry: 'Maybe one day we can have a black Doctor Who'
As he wins the outstanding newcomer prize at the Evening Standard theatre awards for his role as Othello, Lenny Henry has come a long way from black and white minstrels
Spread of the Jedhead
Jedward, voted off the X-Factor this weekend, are the most obvious proponents of the sticky-uppy look - but the style crosses boundaries of age, gender, sexuality and taste, says Nick Curtis

Sky in plot to hire students on the cheap

Sky News is currently recruiting students as reporters for its coverage of next year's general election. However, the opportunity doesn't quite seem so appealing

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