Hunky Dory (109 mins, 15)

Great Britain won their third medal of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck yesterday when the bobsleigh pair of Mica McNeil and Jazmin Sawyers took silver. Marije van Huigenbosch and Sanne Dekker of the Netherlands won gold.

Paul Giamatti excels in this heartfelt and bold adaptation of Mordecai Richler's fictional memoir.

A superhero crime caper that has plenty of buzz but lacks any sting

Hollywood's leading women say movies tipped for Academy Award success are biased towards male actors

The action aboard the 'Orpheus' chugs along nicely and with some decent effects– just watch out for Cap'n Minnie

After Minnie Driver and Scarlett Johansson, Zooey Deschanel is the latest actress to release an album.

As portrayed by Minnie Driver in Grosse Pointe Blank, Debi Newberry is one of the iconic film DJs. The part fitted Driver like a glove, since she had been a budding singer and was on the verge of signing a deal with EMI when she was offered the female lead in the film Circle of Friends in the mid-Nineties. Her music career has therefore little of the method acting so prevalent when other thespians attempt the transition.

She's conquered Hollywood, stars in a hit TV series, and is one of Britain's most successful acting exports

NO 278: DFS SOFAS

On Oscar night, clothes really can make the woman. (And, in some cases, her career.)

The Academy Awards are 70 this year - and as institution and event, surely fading fast. David Thomson sorrowfully presents his annual Oscar tips

Don't send your daugher to LA, Mrs Worthington, she'll be flavour of the month and then never get cast again. Lucy Broadbent reports on the notable failure of British actresses to make it big-time, long-term (because let's face it, there isn't a single bankable British female star in the Hollywood firmament)