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Doctors fume at glamorisation of smoking in films
Monday, 7 July 2008
Film stars who smoke on screen should attract the attention of the censor in the same way as they would if they were engaged in extreme sex or violence, doctors say.
Dr Two - but is this the end of Tennant?
Sunday, 6 July 2008
As the Time Lord is cloned – and reunited with assistant Rose – fans must wait to see if David Tennant returns
Horror: Where girlie meets gory
Sunday, 6 July 2008
Film-makers are ditching the classic formulas – these days it's complex, psychological chillers that are scaring the wits out of an increasingly female audience
Pay us the same as Clarkson – or we quit!
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Between them, they have shrugged off criticism for ramming a 300-year-old chestnut tree, sipping gin and tonics at the wheel of a car and dashing to the North Pole in a gas-guzzling 4x4.
Emmerdale's Jack Sugden dies
Friday, 4 July 2008
Clive Hornby - Emmerdale's flat cap-wearing Jack Sugden - died last night at the age of 63, it was announced today.
BBC's Charles Wheeler dies
Friday, 4 July 2008
Sir Charles Wheeler, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most popular foreign correspondents, has died, the corporation announced today. He was 85.
Hollywood's mix of kung fu and giant pandas is a hit in China
Friday, 4 July 2008
Getting Kung Fu Panda to the silver screen in China took the patience of a martial arts master, but the animated Hollywood take on Shaolin high jinks has got everybody kung-fu fighting in the ancestral home of the giant panda.
The doctor from Oldham goes to Bollywood
Friday, 4 July 2008
Dr Mahesh Kumar is something of a local hero as the head of radiology at Pennine Acute Trust, which runs hospitals in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and north Manchester. But to achieve international fame he has had to try something different – he has become a singing, dancing, murdering gangster.
Missing reels from Lang's 'Metropolis' discovered
Friday, 4 July 2008
A print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis has been found that includes almost a quarter of the silent film which was thought to have been lost.
Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Hollywood duel
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Sherlock Holmes, the pipe-smoking Victorian super-sleuth with a penchant for cocaine, is to become the subject of a face-off by two Hollywood studios which are both bringing out films about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary hero.
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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
