Actor was best known for his role as the troubled mob boss Tony Soprano

Among the sillier genre films of the 1960s were the beach party movies: they depicted attractive young people in abbreviated swimwear beguiling the summer months with flirty horseplay and otiose bursts of song.

The Public Accounts Select Committee members are the Reservoir Dogs of Parliament. It’s not just their capacity to terrorise, but the black humour they use for light relief as they hunt down the multibillion-pound stashes of public money absorbed by government departments.

DreamWorks animation The Croods, which has generated more than £40 million (391 million Yuan) at the Chinese box office, has reportedly been pulled from the country's cinemas two weeks early.

A visually stunning film from the same director as Drive which is let down by a clunky plot that would barely pass muster in a grade B film

Four peacekeepers freed by rebels

The audience at the Lumiere Pavilions cinema in downtown Beijing appeared to love Iron  Man 3, amused by Robert  Downey Jr’s laconic humour  and cheering at his metal- suited character’s exploits on  the big screen.

Plus: Ben Kingsley and the crime of the scene and Grand Theft Auto V has an LA lookalike that's just grand

Nearly two decades after thieves made off with the cherry-red convertible driven by John Travolta’s character Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, the 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu has turned up in Oakland, California.

The 200 strawberry-pickers, many of them from Bangladesh, had been working on the Greek farm for six months without pay. So they went to see the boss. But instead of leaving with their money, they were shot

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It is the first Quentin Tarantino film to gain an official release in China. But when Django Unchained hit cinemas yesterday all screenings of the film were cancelled due to an unspecified technical problem – leading to speculation that the film has fallen foul of the country’s censors.

Quentin Tarantino has muted the blood splattered across his Oscar-winning film Django Unchained in order to win the approval of Chinese censors.

As moviemakers look to make money in the East, Geoffrey Macnab reveals the conditions that China is imposing