Eye-melting cinematography, breezy yet nuanced dialogue and a sensitive use of music all combine to make the first two acts of Trishna whizz by... more
The hottest young actors, from Freida Pinto and Rebecca Hall to Felicity Jones, are to feature along with major stars including George Clooney and Ralph Fiennes in movies premiered at the BFI London Film Festival... more
What's special about 13 Assassins is a 45-minute battle scene in which 13 heroic warriors take on the vastly superior army of a wickedly sadistic Shogun lord... more
Whether a fan of the Danish cop series, The Killing, or obsessed with Professor Brian Cox on Sunday nights, this season's television tribes
all think their series is the best. Nick Curtis classifies each species... more
These days it's so boring to be good at only one thing. Just look at James Franco and Plan B, both multi-task masters. Richard Godwin puts down his guitar and picks up his pen to celebrate the age of the professional polymath
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The characters in Brilliant Love are in love and sexually obsessed with each other. They spend most of the time having sex in all sorts of keenly experimental ways... more
It isn’t easy to make a good film out of the pulp fiction of Jim Thompson. Burt Kennedy first tried to adapt this story in 1976 and came a cropper... more
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
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
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
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
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
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
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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