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Vampires: From freak to chic
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
In literature vampires are terrifying, shadowy figures who "vant to suck your blood", and whose heads need to be cut off and stuffed with garlic to prevent them returning from the dead. But in cinema vamps appear to be, well vampish.
London's film locations: Time for some new ones?
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
A group of young troublemakers dressed in identical boiler suits wreak havoc against a backdrop of concrete brutalism – it could be A Clockwork Orange all over again. The other connection between E4's excellent new drama, Misfits, about a bunch of kids on community service who develop superpowers, and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 movie of Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel, is the filming location. Residents of Thamesmead, south-east London, could be forgiven for emitting a low groan at seeing their neighbourhood once again used as shorthand for the ills of modern society.
Twilight: the world's richest bloody franchise
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
85 million books sold. The biggest opening of any film in US history. Guy Adams investigates the 'Twilight' phenomenon.
Meet Tiana, a Disney heroine like no other
Monday, 23 November 2009
After seven decades of making dreams come true, Hollywood's finest animation studio finally decided to create its first African-American princess. And that's when the trouble started. Guy Adams reports
Ashley Jensen: 'Ricky and Extras changed my life'
Friday, 20 November 2009
A Ricky Gervais sitcom made Ashley Jensen a star and helped her land a role in 'Ugly Betty'. In her first interview since becoming a mother, she talks Hollywood, Botox, and her new comedy with Rosamund Witcher
Poliakoff: 'Original work takes arrogance'
Friday, 20 November 2009
The director's latest film is set at the beginning of the Second World War, a period inextricably linked with his own family history
A Sideways look, from East to West
Friday, 20 November 2009
For years Hollywood has remade Japanese films. Now the Japanese are reversing the trend, with remakes of Sideways, Ghost and Working Girl. Francesca Steele reports
Indy Choice: Best of the new films
Friday, 20 November 2009
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.
Party of the Week: Lily Cole breaks the ice at Somerset House
Friday, 20 November 2009
The actress and supermodel Lily Cole, wearing a white Chanel coat, whizzed around Somerset House's ice rink for its VIP opening party in London on Monday night.
Story of the Scene: Poltergeist (1982)
Friday, 20 November 2009
The final and cataclysmic destruction of the haunted house in Poltergeist was one of the last great model-inspired special effects before CGI became the norm. It cost well over $25,000 to make.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
An Education, 12A
Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina star in this adaptation of a Lynn Barber essay from Granta magazine about the relationship between a precociously clever 16-year-old and an older man in the Sixties.
Nationwide
Bright Star. PG
Jane Campion’s film is a wistful and melancholic account of the unconsummated romance between the poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawne. Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish star.
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
Welcome, 15
A sad, completely involving film about the relationship between a laconic French swimming instructor and a teenage Iraqi refugee so desperate to get to England that he’ll even attempt to swim the channel.
Limited release
Up, U
Pixar’s latest animation is imbued with texture, detail, warm humour and physics-defying action sequences, and has a genuinely touching story about old age and new beginnings.
Nationwide