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Percy Jackson: Gods and monsters
Chris Columbus had huge hits with Harry Potter and Home Alone. Will lightning strike again with his new boy hero, Percy Jackson? Nev Pierce reports
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The Last Station: Exclusive Christopher Plummer video interview
Monday, 8 February 2010
Christopher Plummer stars alongside Helen Mirren and James McAvoy as Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in Michael Hoffman's new movie The Last Station.
On the agenda: Melting rooms, love hotels, severed arms... the future's looking odd, to say the least
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Shirley MacLaine - The evening star
Friday, 5 February 2010
Over her 55-year career, Shirley MacLaine has gone from ingenue to grand dame, writing books and enduring mockery for her New Agebeliefs along the way. She tells Lesley O’Toole how she does it
No country for old Miramax
Friday, 5 February 2010
James Mottram asks what the decline of the arthouse giant means for US independent cinema.
Indy Choice: Best of the new films
Friday, 5 February 2010
Whether you want to take a trip to the cinema or save those pennies and stay at home with a DVD, here's a selection of the best films for you to watch this weekend.
Observations: Movies with a conscience
Friday, 5 February 2010
It's not just blue aliens who lucked in at Tuesday's Oscar nominations. What the fragrant Anne Hathaway and Academy president Tom Sherak failed to mention upon rolling through this year's nominees in front of global audiences was a small victory for right-thinking folk everywhere. Food Inc., a documentary released in Britain a week today, takes on everything from animal abuse in American food production to the relative price of crisps and carrots. It won a place in a golden envelope for Best Documentary.
A fairytale role model: What impact will Disney's first black heroine Princess Tiana have on children?
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Paul McKenzie takes his daughter Esme, 7, to the cinema to find out
Watch the trailer: Inception
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
'Inception', starring Leonardo di Caprio and from the director of The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, sees a man become involved in a murder of the mind when he starts to see visions of a crime unfold.
Clint Eastwood: The good, the bad and the rugby
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
In the week that Clint Eastwood's latest film, Invictus, opens, James Mottram explores the enduring appeal of America's number-one movie man
On The Agenda: Peter Hook's back with another club, and bum bags are in again. Lord help us all...
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Night out, a date, or city break, plan things to do and tell your friends.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
The Princess and the Frog, U
A jolly take on the Brothers Grimm fairytale, hand-drawn in glorious 2D, about a hard-working waitress who dreams of opening a restaurant in olden-days New Orleans.
Nationwide
Tony, 15
Gerard Johnson’s low-budget streets-of-London downer is nominally about a serial killer, but so remarkable is Peter Ferdinando in the title role that it becomes rather more about urban loneliness and alienation.
Limited release
A Prophet, 18
A thrilling, visceral and intense prison-gangster drama, charting the rise to criminal prominence of a French-Arab man while he serves a six-year sentence.
Nationwide
Up in the Air, 15
George Clooney stars as a frequent-flying businessman in a smart comedy about the depersonalisation of corporate life by the director of Juno, which lightens its satire with the right amount of romanticism.
Nationwide
The White Ribbon, 15
Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner is a brooding, cool-handed and gripping parable about repression and violence, set in a Protestant German village before the First World War.
Nationwide