From Mumbai orphan to Greek priestess and now Arabian princess, her career has been truly global so far

'I wanted to join the circus'

Voices: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes

It has been 20 years since Spain's finest last worked together. The Oscar-winning director tells James Mottram about the harrowing, Promethean tale that inspired their reunion

Woody Allen's latest is a slapdash comedy drama set in London.

Voice casting can make or break an animated movie. From rabbits with a lot of rabbit to jovial genies and buck-toothed trucks, Leigh Singer selects the best and the worst

Cheerful and entertaining, joyful and uplifting – this year's Riviera jamboree has not dazzled, but it has delivered a rare crop of inventive cinema in which the story shines

Starring: Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins

A beastly brouhaha has erupted at the Dakota Building, arguably the snootiest and most self-regarding apartment building in all of Manhattan, after one of its long-time residents filed a lawsuit this week accusing its managing board of straying beyond the bounds of familiar snobbery into outright racial discrimination.

There are no surprises on this anthology of Neil Diamond's favourite songs from "the rock era", just a series of fairly predictable MOR standards treated to his signature melodramatic delivery: acceptable on "Hallelujah", dealt with due solemnity, or "Desperado", already well freighted with theatrical narrative, but inappropriate on more delicate material such as "Blackbird" and "Yesterday".

Woody's bright and breezy tale has a heart of darkness

Director's latest – 'Another Year' starring Jim Broadbent – is up for festival's top prize

On this evidence, perhaps Antonio Banderas should stick to singing and Morgan Freeman to depicting the kind of elder statesman for which he's recognised.