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Tom Cruise is in control
Friday, 23 January 2009
The Hollywood actor has suffered a critical backlash since his sofa-hopping declaration of love for Katie Holmes and espousal of Scientology. Now he's back with a true-life Nazi thriller. Gaynor Flynn meets him
Milk - a movie stuck in the closet
Friday, 23 January 2009
Milk is a typical gay-as-Issue movie. Where are the films about ordinary homosexual life, asks Philip Hensher
The Diary: Indian slummer; is Obama Othello?; Bhaji on the moors; dance is out there; rhyming couples
Friday, 23 January 2009
Hollyweird: Freddie Prinze
Friday, 23 January 2009
Hear the name Freddie Prinze and you might assume it refers to the teen hunk who starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer and She's All That. But that actor's name is followed by "Junior".
Screen Talk - A rap Phoenix rises
Friday, 23 January 2009
Living and working in Hollywood can be a strange, rarefied existence, so it should come as no surprise when chums end up making movies about each other.
Chiara Mastroianni: Deneuve's daughter on the defensive
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
In her latest film, Chiara Mastroianni shares the billing with her mother – Catherine Deneuve. And they got along famously, she tells James Mottram
All you need to know about Slumdog Millionaire
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
It's already the most talked-about film of the year – and it's set to sweep the Oscar nominations tomorrow. But there's a lot that went on behind the scenes. Tim Walker has the lowdown
Tessa Ross: The TV executive who is the mother of British film-making
Monday, 19 January 2009
'Slumdog Millionaire' and countless other films could not have happened if it weren't for Channel 4's Tessa Ross.
After the silence: Maverick film-maker Jonathan Demme finally returns to the Hollywood fold
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Jonathan Demme has done his best to avoid Tinseltown since 'The Silence of the Lambs'. So why has a wedding flick lured this renegade film-maker back to the fold?
From toyshop to Tinseltown: Hollywood has turned to children's games
Sunday, 18 January 2009
It may not be groundbreaking cinema, but Hollywood is making big bucks from films based on well-known toys and games.
One Click Wonder: Embarassing Speeches
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Last Sunday’s Golden Globes saw our very own Kate Winslet steal the show with an acceptance speech of painfully histrionic proportions. Of course, she’s hardly the first star to expose herself to ridicule on the awards stage?
Films that make you feel good
Friday, 16 January 2009
There's little to celebrate in these wintry, recession-hit times, but some movies will always lift the spirits. Geoffrey Macnab salutes the best in cinematic soul-food
Rosario Dawson - The tough cookie with a soft centre
Friday, 16 January 2009
Rosario Dawson doesn't usually like the sassy women she plays. But in her latest film, Seven Pounds, she loves her character, a heart-transplant patient. What does that say about her, asks Kaleem Aftab
Nixon: the knockout
Friday, 16 January 2009
When David Frost met the shamed ex-president, it led to one of TV's most dramatic moments. As the Frost/Nixon film opens, readers will be given a free DVD of the interview with tomorrow's print edition. Ian Burrell looks back on the encounters.
The Barometer: Woody Allen; vinyl; Little Boots; Angelina Jolie; Che; Whisky
Friday, 16 January 2009
The Diary: Anglo-Indian cinema; Carl Orff's Carmina Burana; George Bush's memoirs; Nasser Azam; The History Boys
Friday, 16 January 2009
The Golden Globe success of Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire', about an Indian Oliver Twist who strikes it lucky on 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?' on Mumbai TV, could kickstart an Anglo-Indian cinema trend.
Observations: The cinematic secret that's proving too good to keep
Friday, 16 January 2009
Secret Cinema shouldn't really be a secret, despite the society's website warning attendees to "tell no one". It's the best night out at the movies in Britain, especially now that going to the local multiplex has become a celebration of bland and brand, the same overpriced confectionery and an overdose of adverts and trailers.
Rachel Getting Married - Lights, camera, music...
Friday, 16 January 2009
From TV On The Radio to Robyn Hitchcock, Rachel Getting Married has a soundtrack to savour, says Elisa Bray
Screen Talk: Where there's a hit, there's a writ
Friday, 16 January 2009
There is an almighty scrap going on in Hollywood right now.
The Word On... Slumdog Millionaire
Friday, 16 January 2009
"It should be a huge hit; a romantic adventure set in India, made by English film-makers, featuring characters speaking Hindi, with a climax hinging on a question about a French novel. It's a blast." - Bob Mondello, www.npr.org
Slumdogs who seek success
Friday, 16 January 2009
The hit film Slumdog Millionaire attempts to depict children in an Indian shanty town. So what do the real-life inhabitants make of it?
Alice Jones: Why I love a happy ending
Friday, 16 January 2009
There is nothing, nothing, on earth that makes me happier than a spot of heavily choreographed silliness at the cinema.
Exclusive: The making of Frost/Nixon
Friday, 16 January 2009
The cast of Frost/Nixon, including Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon and director Ron Howard, discussing the making of the film which is in cinemas from January 23rd.
One Click Wonder: Self Parody
Sunday, 11 January 2009
New Channel 4 sitcom ‘Plus One’ is notable for an inspired turn from ex-boybander Duncan James, playing himself – and so joining a fine tradition of stars sending themselves up on screen with hilarious/humiliating results...
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Il Divo, 15
Paolo Sorrentino’s terrific film presents an extraordinarily sinister portrait of Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s most significant politician of the post-war era. As incarnated by Toni Servillo, Andreotti appears not so much an eminence grise as a black hole.
Nationwide
Wendy and Lucy , 15
Michelle Williams, with page-boy haircut and a martyrishly sad face, is quite lovely in this extremely low-key but very touching humanist drama about hardship and a modern-day hobo’s search for her missing dog.
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Bronson, 18
An original and pacy portrait of Charles Bronson, a violent sociopath who has spent most of his adult life in solitary confinement. Tom Hardy gives what ought to be a career-making performance.
Nationwide
The Class, 15
The winner of the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes festival is a remarkable piece of naturalistic film-making, set over the course of a school year in a racially mixed classroom of boisterous and endearing adolescents in an inner-city Paris high school.
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Not Quite Hollywood, 18
Informative and very funny documentary charting the history of Ozploitation, a forgotten strand of exploitation cinema that was concurrent with the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and 1980s, but had rather more nudity, mayhem and gore.
Limited release