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'Slumdog' star writes memoir – at the age of nine
Rubina Ali, one of the young stars of the Oscar-winning film, is making publishing history with an account of her unexpected rise to fame
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Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dead at 97
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage, screen and television made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 97.
29 years on, Glasgow lifts ruling on Life of Brian
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
A ruling that effectively banned the Monty Python film from the city's cinemas was lifted today.
Judges say Yes to Dr No trademark bid
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
European judges today said yes to a German company's bid to trademark Dr No - despite opposition from the American owners of the rights to the James Bond films.
UK film censor relaxes sex guidelines
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
The film going public is no longer shouting, "no sex please, we're British," but solvent abuse remains a definite no-no, according to the British Board of Film Classification.
Liam Gallagher bags first film role
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Liam Gallagher is to star in a film version of Kevin Sampson's novel Powder.
Shia LaBeouf drops Transformers 3 hint
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Shia LaBeouf says a third Transformers film would be "darker" than the first two movies.
Daniel Craig eyes psychological thriller
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Daniel Craig can shake, but can he stir?
Cameron Diaz honoured on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Cameron Diaz has become the latest celebrity to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
'Brüno' too hot to handle for film censors
Friday, 19 June 2009
Film company protests after Baron Cohen film is given 18 certificate
Film about de Menezes premieres in home town
Friday, 19 June 2009
The life story of the Brazilian man shot dead by police on a London Underground train because they believed he was a suicide bomber is celebrated in a film which premieres in his home town this evening.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Drag Me To Hell, 15
Sam Raimi takes a break between Spider-Man films in order to deliver the kind of supernatural horror-comedy with which he made his name: slick, outrageous, darkly witty and enormously good fun.
Nationwide
Katyn, 15
This quietly moving and sombre requiem uses the experiences of a handful of women to investigate the massacre of 15,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police in the spring of 1940.
Limited release
North by Northwest (PG)
Cary Grant’s suave adman finds himself in mortal peril as the innocent man-on-the-run in Hitchcock’s terrific comic thriller. A first-rate cast including Eva Marie Saint as the accommodating platinum blonde, James Mason as the silky villain and Jessie Royce Landis as the hero’s mother.
Limited release
Sleep Furiously, U
This quietly observant non-narrative documentary about life in the small farming community in rural mid-Wales is deceptively artful and unexpectedly absorbing.
Limited release
The Hangover, 15
A blissfully silly guys-together misadventure about the morning after the night before, with some very funny,
very non-PC dialogue and some terrific turns by a cast of virtually unknown actors.
Nationwide