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Meet Sam Mendes's British beauty: Carmen Ejogo

28.08.09
Hollywood has come calling for Carmen Ejogo, with Sam Mendes first in the queue. But will the West London child star turned serious actress abandon domestic bliss in Brooklyn for fame, LA-style?... more

Introducing... Mat Whitecross

17.07.09
Meet Mat Whitecross - a rock'n'roll film-maker. Think Sam Mendes meets Michael Winterbottom...... more

There's Vikings, Darwin and Six Parties at the National

06.07.09
The National Theatre’s New Connections season fizzes with promise.... 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

Families take Deepcut fight to the stage

11.03.09
Families of the soldiers who died at Deepcut barracks will use a new play about the tragedy to step up their fight for justice... more

New law to lure film-makers to London

22.10.08
London's international appeal as a movie location has been boosted by a law making it easier to close roads for filming... 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

Film

08.10.08
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... 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

Angel is purple prose at the movies

28.08.08
François Ozon's attempt to make an English-speaking period piece in Angel strains credulity, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Uncut version of controversial Helen Mirren film Caligula to be released

26.08.08
It was banned in the 1970s for its graphic scenes of incest and real sex, but now controversial Roman epic Caligula is set to go on sale in the high street.... more

Mates of Marilyn

13.03.08
If director Harmony Korine wants to say something about celebrity, it gets drowned out in the plot-turns of Mister Lonely.... more

DVDs of the week

09.10.07
The Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer leads the line-up of this week's best DVD releases.... more

Sienna starts a hippy riot

24.09.07
Grosvenor Square was closed to allow hundreds of extras to take part in filming for Sienna Miller's latest movie.... more

Angelina's finest hour

20.09.07
Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart sees Angelina Jolie in a performance that allows few concessions to her star persona.... more

The Best of British, in Edinburgh

21.08.07
A young British Asian gets tortured and kidnapped, and memoirs from the death of a father feature in our reviews from the Edinburgh Film Festival.... more

Jolie heart-warming

22.05.07
Angelina Jolie is remarkably unstarry in A Mighty Heart as the brave wife of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was brutally murdered in Pakistan.... more

Sam's the man taking Control

18.05.07
A warehouse worker is being tipped for stardom after winning rave reviews for his portrayal of Ian Curtis in a new biopic of the troubled Joy Division singer.... more

Who will we fall in love with this year at Cannes?

10.05.07
There may be no Brits in competition, but there's plenty else to watch out for in the most important festival of the film calendar... more

Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07
After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more

Anger as Angelina 'blacks up' for role

11.10.06
Angelina Jolie has landed in controversy over her latest role as the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl. A black campaign group has called the move a "whitewash".... more

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