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Gill Pringle: Gone are debauched days of young Hollywood hedonists with excess-all-areas lifestyles
Inside Features
Ryan Reynolds - Canadian beatific
Friday, 10 July 2009
Ryan Reynolds, Mr Scarlett Johansson, is Hollywood's new go-to hunk, equally at home in horror and rom-com. By Lesley O'Toole
Party Of The Week: Raindrops and broomsticks
Friday, 10 July 2009
Umbrellas were the fashion accessory of choice at the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in London this week.
Live fast, act young: The stars who don't act their age
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Geoffrey Macnab: Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, both 19, may look too old to wear school uniforms – but moviemakers have always blurred the line between adults and children.
Sodankyla: Films where the sun never sets
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
It may lack the showbiz glitz of Cannes, but the world's most northerly festival draws all the big-hitters. By Geoffrey Macnab
The ten best: Bollywood movies
Monday, 6 July 2009
I love Bollywood. I remember being twelve, standing in front of the mirror, physically dressing up in a Shalwar Kameez, lip synching to a song picturised on Shahrukh Khan and dreaming of becoming a Bollywood star.
Credo: Ron Jeremy, porn star, 56
Sunday, 5 July 2009
'When you're the best-known [porn] actor in the world; my biggest fear is that I'll be in a scene and I'll suck, and people will say, 'Just look at that flaccid noodle.'
Cad files: Sam West turns supervillain in a new play about the collapse of energy titan Enron
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Born into theatrical royalty, Sam West made his name playing 'linen' parts in Merchant Ivory productions. So how did he come to be taking on one of this century's biggest corporate villains?
Close-up: Teddy Nygh
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Meet the film-maker helping street-corner MCs get a better rap
What happened to the American film director?
Friday, 3 July 2009
Once upon a time in Hollywood, the man behind the camera was king. Today, studios are only interested in blockbusting franchises and our screens are suffering as a result.
Shane Meadows: All you need to make a movie...
Friday, 3 July 2009
Shane Meadows' new guerrilla project is more than just a movie. James Mottram reports on how the daring director's new Five Days Features manifesto could change the face of film
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Drag Me To Hell, 15
Sam Raimi takes a break between Spider-Man films in order to deliver the kind of supernatural horror-comedy with which he made his name: slick, outrageous, darkly witty and enormously good fun.
Nationwide
Katyn, 15
This quietly moving and sombre requiem uses the experiences of a handful of women to investigate the massacre of 15,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police in the spring of 1940.
Limited release
Soul Power, 12A
A marvellous documentary record of Zaire 74, the three-day concert of African and black American music that was staged around the same time as Muhammad Ali’s Rumble in the Jungle.
Limited release
Cloud Nine, 15
An intimate, very natural and at times quite lovely drama telling the story of a seamstress grandmother’s affair with a septuagenarian.
Limited release
The Hangover, 15
A blissfully silly guys-together misadventure about the morning after the night before, with some very funny,
very non-PC dialogue and some terrific turns by a cast of virtually unknown actors.
Nationwide