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DVD: The Iron Lady
Sunday 29 April 2012
Weirdly, Phyllida Lloyd's Iron Lady devotes just half of its running time to Margaret Thatcher's upbringing and political career.
Julia Roberts - Pretty woman shows her ugly side but still comes up smiling
Saturday 31 March 2012
Julia Roberts is cast against type as a wicked queen in her new film, Mirror Mirror. The Hollywood favourite has more starring roles coming up but tells Lesley O'Toole that she's now happy to treat acting more like a hobby
Palin feared the worst about TV portrayal – and she was right
Saturday 10 March 2012
Juliannne Moore is cast as Alaska's presidential hopeful in a recreation of 2008 election race
Spotlight on: Harvey Weinstein, Co-chairman, the Weinstein Company
Tuesday 28 February 2012
And the winner is... Yes, after the Oscars, who can doubt that the brothers Weinstein, Harvey and his younger sibling Bob, are back on top in Hollywood? The Weinstein Company distributed The Artist in the US, and orchestrated its campaign to win Best Picture, and that wasn't the only one of the firm's movies taking plaudits.
Geoffrey Macnab: Hardly a surprise that there was no surprise at the Oscars
Monday 27 February 2012
What was clear last night is that the Oscars are now a surprise-free zone. By the time the statuettes are dished out on a Sunday night in late February, there have been so many other awards ceremonies already that it is already ordained what will win.
And the Academy Award goes to: We predict who will win an Oscar tonight
Sunday 26 February 2012
Who really deserves to win and who was disgracefully left off the shortlist?
Australia's fourth inquest opens in Azaria Chamberlain dingo case
Friday 24 February 2012
A coroner today opened Australia's fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama in the nation's history: the 1980 death of a nine-week-old baby whose parents say was taken by a dingo from her tent in the Australian Outback.
The Artist sweeps the board at London Film Critics' Circle awards
Friday 20 January 2012
Silent film The Artist swept the board tonight when it won three awards at the London Film Critics' Circle awards.
David Owen: Thatcher's disciples do her no favours by covering up her illness
Saturday 07 January 2012
For the first time, the British public can see in graphic detail on cinema screens throughout the country why the woman they elected three times as Prime Minister was unceremoniously bundled out of office by her fellow Conservative MPs.
Iron Lady film made too soon, says David Cameron
Friday 06 January 2012
David Cameron today stepped in to the row over the Iron Lady, claiming the film should have been made "another day".
John Rentoul: A missed chance to tell the truth about Mrs T
Sunday 01 January 2012
Meryl Streep's new film could have nailed some of the more persistent myths about how Thatcherism changed Britain
Meryl Streep: Becoming 'The Iron Lady'
Friday 30 December 2011
The actress' preparation for the role of Margaret Thatcher was cut short, but she was still able to identify with the divisive leader, says Clemency Burton-Hill
Matthew Norman: Margaret Thatcher is still big, it's the politicians that got small
Wednesday 16 November 2011
The timing of the release of 'The Iron Lady' has a resonance that transcends normal critical criteria
Andy McSmith: The good sense spoken out of power
Monday 22 August 2011
The idea that a former prime minister should simply shut up would once have been considered absurd
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