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First look at poster for Spielberg's big screen version of War Horse

28.09.11
Poster for big budget film version of War Horse is unveiled ... more

Oranges and Sunshine is a story and a half

01.04.11
Oranges and Sunshine singles out the stories of Hugo Weaving's traumatised veteran and David Wenham's more aggressive younger man. Both performances are excellent... more

Jim Loach on the tragedy of the lost children

15.03.11
The story of 100,000 taken from British children's homes to Australia and elsewhere is the subject of Jim Loach's first feature film, Oranges and Sunshine. The biggest scandal, he says, is their loss of identity... more

Neds sees off King's Speech at Evening Standard British FIlm Awards

08.02.11
VIDEO: The Best Film prize went to Peter Mullan's Neds, a coming-of-age drama about teenage gangs, at the Evening Standard British Film Awards for 2010... more

The Wire star Dominic West to play killer Fred

18.01.11
The Wire star Dominic West is set to play serial killer Fred West in a new ITV drama, it has been announced.... more

All the young dudes in Cemetery Junction

16.04.10
Ricky Gervais and co-creator Stephen Merchant forgot the gags when they assembled their cast of bright newcomers and set them to work in a disappointing Seventies nostalgia trip.... more

The dream team: Ricky Gervais's bright young things

26.03.10
Ricky Gervais has hand-picked the most charismatic, beautiful and talented young British stars for his new movie. Hermione Eyre meets the future of film... more

Journey to the end of the earth in The Road

18.12.09
John Hillcoat’s film of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road is ostensibly about survival after an apocalypse, but its core theme, is really paternal love.... more

Pulitzer-winning author of Angela's Ashes is dead at 78

20.07.09
Frank McCourt, the Irish-American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes, has died at the age of 78... more

Fireflies in the Garden is a blantant case of insect cruelty

29.05.09
First time writer/director Dennis Lee is desperate to transcend genre clichés in Fireflies in the Garden ... more

The cast of Tormented leap to fame

22.05.09
Meeting a grisly end in the new teen horror flick Tormented is just the beginning for this bloody beautiful bunch...... more

Synecdoche, New York is a real mindbender

15.05.09
Stricter editing of that puzzling second half might have made Synecdoche, New York more like the masterpiece some think it.... more

'Who's the greatest actor in the world?' Christian Bale's former assistant reveals how the star's father boosted his son's ego

26.07.08
Christian Bale's former assistant has spoken out about the star painting a portrait of him as a tortured soul, haunted by his parents’ divorce, prone to temper tantrums and plagued by insecurity.... more

Old-fashioned horsing around

07.02.08
The Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep looks and feels like one of those nice British movies from the Fifties.... more

DVDs of the week

24.04.07
Renèe Zellweger playing Beatrix Potter, the John Sayles Collection, American black comedy Big Nothing and Gabrielle feature among the DVDs released this week.... more

Dangers of doing what you're told

04.01.07
This starry biopic about author Beatrix Potter is bland rather than smooth and neither Renee Zellweger nor Ewan McGregor can fill the void.... more

Will the Brits get the gongs?

21.12.06
British actors have put in some prizewinnning performances this year. They'll get Oscar nominations, just don't expect them all to win.... more

DVD reviews: Growing up with alco pop

17.10.06
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


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