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Meet Sam Mendes's British beauty: Carmen Ejogo

2009-08-27T10:33:53Z

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?

Introducing... Mat Whitecross

2009-07-17T14:26:22Z

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

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

2009-07-05T23:00:00Z

The National Theatre�s New Connections season fizzes with promise.

Winterbottom at his haunting best in Genova

2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

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.

Families take Deepcut fight to the stage

2009-03-11T10:18:20Z

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

New law to lure film-makers to London

2008-10-22T07:40:48Z

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

Film festival begins with a premiere of Frost

2008-10-15T07:59:52Z

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

Film

2008-10-02T09:51:28Z

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

Colin Firth is ideal in this haunting tale of family loss

2008-09-08T23:00:00Z

Toronto Film Festival: Trust Michael Winterbottom to make his family film, Genova, an eerie and unsettling ghost story

Angel is purple prose at the movies

2008-08-27T23:00:00Z

Fran�ois Ozon's attempt to make an English-speaking period piece in Angel strains credulity, says Derek Malcolm.

Uncut version of controversial Helen Mirren film Caligula to be released

2008-08-26T18:25:17Z

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.

Mates of Marilyn

2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

DVDs of the week

2007-10-08T23:00:00Z

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

Sienna starts a hippy riot

2007-09-24T09:52:25Z

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

Angelina's finest hour

2007-09-19T23:00:00Z

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

The Best of British, in Edinburgh

2007-08-21T11:43:10Z

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.

Jolie heart-warming

2007-05-21T23:00:00Z

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

Sam's the man taking Control

2007-05-18T08:08:15Z

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.

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

2007-05-10T15:08:36Z

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

Hollywood's new royalty

2007-01-16T11:56:12Z

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

Anger as Angelina 'blacks up' for role

2006-10-11T07:37:42Z

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".