Dominic Cooper, who plays both Uday Hussein and his unfortunate double, Latif Yahia, in Lee Tamahori's straight-from-history fiction, says The Devil's Double is really just a gangster movie... more
Roberta Armani is her uncle's secret weapon: befriending celebrities, organising their weddings and, naturally, decking them in Giorgio's soignée creations. Hermione Eyre meets a one-woman charm offensive... more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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