In hushed tones, with a nervous look over the shoulder, New York bankers are asking themselves a question close to heresy: are there too many of us? ... more
Michael Douglas is irresistible as the reptilian Gordon Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, fresh from prison and just in time for global financial meltdown... more
Director Oliver Stone spoke of his close relationship with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez at the London premiere of his documentary on South American politics... more
City Editor's Comment: When we look back at where it all went wrong, one of those we have to blame, surely, is Michael Douglas. Not a nerdy banker coming up with some new-fangled financial instrument set to bring down his world... more
After more than two decades Oliver Stone is making a sequel to Wall Street. Our reporter agrees it’s the perfect time for the monster to be reincarnated... more
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
A critical vote in the House of Lords is looming for small newsagents who are being seriously threatened by plans to prevent tobacco products going on display across Britain ... more
Gordon Gekko is coming back. The slick villain of Oliver Stone’s 1987 classic Wall Street is to return in a sequel tentatively called Wall Street 2
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Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic is sly, old-fashioned melodrama. It works as entertainment but as history, W deserves an F, says Charlotte O'Sullivan.... more
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
Richard E Grant makes his directorial debut with Wah-Wah, Paul Greengrass explores the horror of 9/11 in United 93 and coming out drama Imagine Me & You is just plain silly. ... more
For some in the US it's too soon for Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie. But here we've already seen too many recreations of that awful day, says Derek Malcolm.... more
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