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Pacino is spectacularly over the top in Scarface

21.08.09
Brian De Palma's 1983 version has Al Pacino as Tony Montana, a two-bit hood from Cuba who makes it big in the drug trade... more

Josh Hartnett: I’m really just a regular guy (but don’t ask me to chill out)

29.08.08
Josh Hartnett has been a Hollywood heart-throb for a decade but he hates his celebrity status. Now he is set to be the star of the West End version of Rain Man: how on earth will he cope?... 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

See this film and share the shame of the Iraq war

11.03.08
Brian De Palma's Iraq War film Redacted opens in London this week, trailing in its wake the opprobrium it attracted in its director's homeland... 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

Lee, Pitt and Blanchett win awards in Venice

10.09.07
Ang Lee's steamy espionage thriller Lust, Caution won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett took the acting honours.... more

Bitter truths about Iraq

04.09.07
Both Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah and Brian De Palma's Redacted are hard-hitting American films at Venice tackling the debacle of the Iraq war.... more

Coming soon for autumn

24.08.07
After the silliness of the summer blockbusters, autumn brings a crop of films for grown-ups. See our preview here.... more

The day De Niro joined the CIA

04.01.07
A provocative new film by Robert de Niro enters the murky world of espionage. He tells how he met the Taliban - and confronted the ethical dilemma of spying.... more

It's tough in Tinseltown

23.11.06
An intriguing performance by Ben Affleck distinguishes Hollywoodland, a seedy portrait of Tinseltown in the Fifties, says Derek Malcolm.... more

De Palma in full bloom

14.09.06
Brian De Palma's Black Dahlia, starring Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank looks great and, though a little melodramatic at times, is one of the best thrillers of the year, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Scarlett women's dark secrets

30.08.06
The Black Dahlia, starring Scarlett Johansson, is Brian De Palma's adaptation of James Ellroy's bestseller and shows that the director is back to something like his best.... more

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