Features
Wall-E: One giant beep for mankind
It's a cartoon about a lonely robot who can't even speak, but America's leading critics are queuing up to hail Pixar's summer blockbuster as 'ET' meets 'Citizen Kane'. Tim Walker discovers why we're all about to fall for 'Wall-E' – and why it could even become the defining film of our times
Inside Features
The name game: The new celebrity baby naming rules
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
As Sunday Rose Urban Kidman is born, John Walsh explains the new rules of celebrity monikers
John Nettles: The boy in bleu
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
France has fallen in love with Midsomer's suave TV detective. John Lichfield investigates
Christian Bale: Dark Knight laid bare
Monday, 7 July 2008
The latest Batman is tough and brooding – just like the actor behind the mask. Gill Pringle meets Christian Bale
Skin deep: Why it's time TV faced the truth about beauty
Monday, 7 July 2008
Britain's beauty business is booming, yet its portrayal on television is brash, trashy and predictable, argues Bethan Cole.
Why Jaime Winstone's latest movie will upset parents everywhere
Friday, 4 July 2008
It may not please the parents but it's reality for her generation, she tells James Mottram
Noel Clarke: I'm influential? You're kidding...
Friday, 4 July 2008
Last week we said Noel Clarke was one of the most important figures in UK cinema. Here's his response
Awesome Ambridge: Why The Archers has the edge on its TV cousins
Thursday, 3 July 2008
There may be some benighted corner of the country where The Archers is thought of as smug, unrealistic, out-of-date and even "despicable hayseed porn" (a famously vitriolic description in the New Statesman), but for the rest of us, Radio 4's epic soap is an (almost) daily delight that delivers powerful drama and high comedy – and outpaces its TV rivals with its take on gritty contemporary issues.
One wrong move: Jackie Chan's latest role threatens to overshadow his film career
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Widely portrayed as kung fu's loveable goofy hero, Jackie Chan's wide-ranging business empire attests to a very different persona.
Brief encounters: How David Lean's sex life shaped his films
Sunday, 29 June 2008
As fans of David Lean celebrate his centenary, Geoffrey Macnab asks: was the director's chaotic love life responsible for some of his greatest films?
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FIVE BEST FILMS
My Winnipeg, 12A
An enchantingly idiosyncratic documentary mix of autobiography and psychogeography, using found footage, home movies and new material shot in B-movie style. Directed by Guy Maddin. 79mins. Limited release
The Visitor, 15
A wry and touching drama, written and acted with an admirable economy of style, about the friendship between a morose white economics professor and a Senegalese drummer. Directed by Thomas McCarthy. 106mins. Nationwide
Kung Fu Panda, PG
This DreamWorks animation about a tubby panda who longs to be a kung-fu fighter has some smart lines and great stunts. Directed by Mark Osborne. 92mins. Nationwide
Couscous, 15
A thoroughly engrossing masterclass in film naturalism, set around the dinner tables of a fascinating extended French-Arabic family. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. 154mins. Limited release
The Mist, 15
Shoppers trapped in a small-town supermarket in Maine after a thick mist rolls in slowly come to realise that there is something nasty lurking out there. Directed by Frank Darabont, 126mins. Nationwide
