Mila Kunis: I'm not curing cancer but I like to entertain and empower young girls
08 March 2013 11:59 AM
The star of Black Swan has moved into the big-budget league in a new visit to Oz. And she's a producer now, too
Richard Gere and the morality of power
05 March 2013 12:41 AM
Nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance, the 63-year-old actor plays a billionaire broker in his new film Arbitrage. It was easy to sympathise with him, he explains
Richard Gere and the morality of power
05 March 2013 12:00 AM
Nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance, the 63-year-old actor plays a billionaire broker in his new film Arbitrage. It was easy to sympathise with him, he explains
Heads Up: BFI Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
03 March 2013 12:00 AM
It's simply Divine ... so big it up for alternative cinema
Stoker: Exclusive video interview with Mia Wasikowska
27 February 2013 03:47 PM
India, played by Mia Wasikowska, is left desolate when her father dies in an car accident. Her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother played by Nicole Kidman.
Immersive cinema: Here's looking at us, kid
26 February 2013 12:00 AM
Natalie Haynes went along to a screening of Casablanca with a difference – she and the rest of the audience came in character
The madness of Daniel Day-Lewis – a unique Method that has led to a deserved third Oscar
25 February 2013 10:29 PM
Geoffrey Macnab on a star earning unprecedented honours
Backstage at the Oscars - thanks to Twitter: Pictures from Heidi Klum, Sally Field, Judd Apatow, Eddie Redmayne, Samuel L Jackson and more
25 February 2013 11:50 AM
Heidi Klum posted this picture of her entourage helping her get ready for the big night, and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt took a photo of Sally Field helping him with his dickie bow in the car on the way to the red carpet.
Click here or on "view gallery" to look at pictures of the stars backstage at the Oscars.
Oscars - cinema's Golden Night: The ultimate bluffer's guide to Hollywood's big night
24 February 2013 12:00 AM
The nominations! The history! The speeches! The trivia! Starring David Randall and Heather Clark who would like to thank their parents and their colleagues for making it all possible
Heads Up: Trance, Danny Boyle's ultra-violent new thriller starring James McAvoy
24 February 2013 12:00 AM
No standing on ceremony: Boyle's back, and it's bloody
Oscars style: Carolina Herrera reveals the secrets of the perfect red-carpet ensemble
24 February 2013 12:00 AM
Herrera has become almost as synonymous with the Academy Awards as a weepy acceptance speech.
Films of the Week: Poetic pondering in a subtle mix of short tales
22 February 2013 07:00 PM
Thursday
Warm Bodies: Not all zombies love eating human flesh
22 February 2013 07:00 PM
With zombie fiction trending so heavily, you could be forgiven for thinking that this fascination with the undead, much like the vampire before it, may be in danger of being done to, well, death. For where else is there to go? The answer, perhaps, lies no longer in aiming for the head, but getting inside it. Or at least that's what Jonathan Levine's new zom-rom-com, Warm Bodies, suggests. A film that is leading the pack in telling us that zombies are people too.
Emad Burnat: The Oscar-nominated Palestinian farmer who survived bullets, arrests and being held at LAX airport
22 February 2013 06:09 PM
He endured a difficult journey making his film – and then getting to the Oscars unscathed, he tells Alistair Dawber
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Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed
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Theatre review: Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandage's play The Cripple of Inishmaan
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Russell Brand takes his Messiah Complex to the Middle East
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Art review: The BP Portrait Award 2013 reveals our endless fascination with self-scrutiny and the human face
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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Diary of Second World War German teenager reveals young lives untroubled by Nazi Holocaust in wartime Berlin
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Bosses of collapsed banks should be sent to jail, banking standards commission tells George Osborne
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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