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Last night's viewing: Surviving Progress, BBC4; Revenge, E4
Tuesday 05 June 2012
It's hard to imagine that this film won't find a sympathetic audience
Kristen Stewart: Stepping out of the twilight
Saturday 02 June 2012
She made her name in the long-running vampire saga, but now Kristen Stewart is relishing playing a very different kind of role. Emma Jones meets the 'kick-ass' heroine of the new Snow White
Tim Walker: Hang on, let's rewrite the ending
Saturday 02 June 2012
Plan B's Ill Manors: Mean streets at the movies
Thursday 31 May 2012
The rapper-come-director's new film explores the urban tensions that led to last summer's riots – and he's not the only one finding cinematic inspiration in social unrest
Angelina Jolie and William Hague speak out against rape in war zones
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Angelina Jolie was greeted in Whitehall by the Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday as she offered Hollywood backing to the Government's global campaign against sexual violence.
Twilight helps profits double at Entertainment One
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Booming digital sales and strong brands such as Peppa Pig and the Twilight film franchise helped to double annual profits at the film and television distributor Entertainment One.
Charlotte O'Sullivan: We don't treasure Ken Loach enough
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Terrified of being dubbed 'worthy', young British directors described his work as grim
Love conquers all as Haneke triumphs again
Monday 28 May 2012
Austrian wins Palme d'Or for second time with tale of an elderly couple's devotion
Seann Walsh: 'I don't really like jokes'
Sunday 27 May 2012
I wanted to be a comedian or actor from as far back as i can remember When I was 21, I started putting my name down for open-mic nights and kept on bottling it. All I wanted to do was try it once because I didn't want to die without having done stand-up. Obviously, now I've died loads of times.
DVD: The Artist
Sunday 27 May 2012
It's a cause for celebration that this year's big Oscar winner (five awards including Best Picture and Best Actor) was a French, black-and-white silent movie.
Fast girls go for gold – the hard way
Sunday 27 May 2012
Emily Dugan discovers training was no piece of cake for the stars of a new British film
River Phoenix: the final reel
Sunday 27 May 2012
Twenty years after the actor's death, his last film is to be released
More glitz on Cannes red carpet than on screen
Sunday 27 May 2012
There are few big contenders for the Palme d'Or in this mediocre year
Observations: Looking on the bright side of a Dark Horse
Saturday 26 May 2012
Given Todd Solondz's reputation for controversy, his sidestepping of provocative subject matter makes his new film, Dark Horse, seem almost quaint in comparison with his masterwork, Happiness.
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- 4 Cameron goes to war with press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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