Shanghai Shenhua are trying to sign Stoke City defender Matthew Upson, while talks continue about Didier Drogba joining his former Chelsea strike partner Nicolas Anelka at the Chinese club.

Starring: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarperta

It's not so much the four horsemen of the apocalypse as the many shortcomings of the clichéd crime drama, which ride slipshod over The Horsemen's chances of success.

The latest film from acclaimed Japanese director Yojiro Takita beat off stiff competition earlier this year to take the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Ang Lee was not the most likely director to create a film about Woodstock, and his authentic-looking LSD scene is from imagination not experience, he tells James Mottram

An assembly of three cinematic masterpieces – Ashes of Time, Happy Together and Chungking Express – by the acclaimed Hong Kong film-maker.

Cinema treats bring flavour from the East

Hamelt meets Crouching Tiger in this long, lavish story of royal power-struggles in 10th-century China.

The injured England captain, Michael Vaughan, is still hoping to be fit for selection in next year's triangular one-day series against New Zealand and Australia.

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Dennis Lim previews all the best bits of this year's London Film Festival

The Pillow Book Peter Greenaway (18) The Craft Andrew Fleming (15) The Eighth Day Jaco Van Dormael (PG) Fled Kevin Hook (18) Farewell My Lovely Edward Dmytryk (PG) Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy Kelly Martin (15)

Pearson, the international media business that owns the Financial Times, will take a 10 per cent stake in TVB, a broadcaster and programme production company based in Hong Kong.

THE MAN across the table could be anybody. His face, with its pursed lips and hollow cheeks, is a mask of impassivity. In the austere opulence of a Paris hotel lounge, this slight, almost boyish figure, in his smart jeans and trainers, could be a wealthy tourist or a businessman relaxing after a day at the Bourse - or maybe a student blowing his stipend on an extravagant drink. He gives nothing away, perhaps used to interrogations more perilous than press interviews. He could be an artist or an artisan (we will find out that he has been both), a conformist or a revolutionary (that might depend which side you ask). He might also, if you want to know the truth, be the world's greatest film director.