From Chaplin to Selleck, film stars have been festooned with fuzz. Not now. Daniel Bettridge mourns the demise of the mo

An award-winning London comedian heads a strong contingent of UK talent out to make their mark at the Sundance Film Festival this week.

Stephen Weeks has had a ring-side seat for the procession of Czechs mourning the loss of their national hero this week. Here, the author explains what Havel meant to his country – and laments the politicians who have squandered his glorious legacy

Butch Cassidy, the Wild West bandit and leader of the Wild Bunch gang, did not die in a shootout 1908 in Bolivia as popularly believed but survived and lived the rest of his days in Washington state, according to a book collector and a writer.

Hollywood A-listers love to trumpet their green credentials. Guy Adams reports on a film-maker who's out to expose them

A stone-age archaeological site in the Arabian peninsula has become the focus of a radical theory of how early humans made the long walk from their evolutionary homeland of Africa to become a globally-dispersed species.

The director Arthur Penn is considered to have changed the face of American cinema with his seminal gangster film Bonnie and Clyde.

Neil Marshall's gore-drenched action movie rips off/pays homage to the chase sequence in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but instead of bank robbers being pursued by a posse of mercenaries, the heroes are a rag-tag band of Roman soldiers (led by Michael Fassbender) being hunted through the forests of Caledonia by Picts.

For many movie-industry players, this year's Cannes festival and its accompanying wheeler-dealer shindig was as much about a deal not struck as about those that were.