Alice Jones' Arts Diary

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Curious about the history of our planet, but quite busy today? Internet artists melodysheep have the solution. They've edited together various pieces of footage and some lovely music to create a visualisation of the entire history of our planet in under two minutes.

Gossip site TMZ may have broken the news of Michael Jackson's death but it failed to spot a scoop right under its paparazzo's lens.

Reykjavik lawyer and under-age granny, Thora Gudmundsdottir, isn't usually fazed by the dark. But finding herself in remotest Greenland, investigating the disappearance of mining company employees, she finds herself listening out for unexplained creaks.

Rambling, haphazard – but with characters to kill for

Mumble the tap-dancing penguin and his Antarctica pals return for this lazy, confusing sequel.

Bennett Miller's charming sports film, scripted by Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List) and Aaron Sorkin, is on paper as dull as they come: the general manager of a baseball team, the Oakland A's, recruits a whizz kid at economics to help build a winning team on the cheap.

Bennett Miller's charming sports film, scripted by Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List) and Aaron Sorkin, is on paper as dull as they come: the general manager of a baseball team, the Oakland A's, recruits a whizz kid at economics to help build a winning team on the cheap.

In this Oscar-nominated true story, a baseball coach (Brad Pitt) develops a statistics-based method of assembling a top-flight team for a bargain-basement price.

The champagne is on ice and the red carpet is being rolled out as some of the biggest names in Hollywood gather for tonight's Bafta film awards.

Martin Scorsese's 3D adventure Hugo leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, including best picture and best director.

He directed some of the most memorable films of recent times, but he has had enough. He explains why to Tom Teodorczuk

It's a very good swing, just not quite knocked out of the park