It’s not easy for professional football players to acquire a reputation for being more stupid or badly behaved than common opinion already holds.

Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar has revealed he is a keen flyer in spite of the problems featured in his new film I'm So Excited!

A comrade of a deceased combatant visits his bereaved family. We know the drill, we know the score of this time-honoured dramatic trope. Don't we?

Forget the weird plot and get lost in fabulous visuals and a pouting, simmering Nicole Kidman

Promising British directors to make their mark, plus predatory aliens and even a talking dog

The young stand-up Jack Whitehall writes and stars in BBC3's new sitcom, Bad Education, set in an inner-city comprehensive, and his sharp script has lured some top comedy talent. By Gerard Gilbert

The public school-educated comedian writes and stars in the new sitcom, set in an inner-city comprehensive.

Tales From The Water Cooler: The social network is a vast, factcheckingmachine, challenging, verifying, sub-editing

Help! Colin Farrell's at the door and I think he might be a vampire who's after my mother

Almodovar's latest is a creepy tale of surgery and obsession

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes

It has been 20 years since Spain's finest last worked together. The Oscar-winning director tells James Mottram about the harrowing, Promethean tale that inspired their reunion

A rambling Turkish philosophical thriller led the field, says Jonathan Romney

Cheerful and entertaining, joyful and uplifting – this year's Riviera jamboree has not dazzled, but it has delivered a rare crop of inventive cinema in which the story shines