Features
This happy brood: How is David Morrissey coping with mass exposure?
The 'Doctor Who' Christmas special gave one of our best screen actors his first taste of the kind of fame that has people stopping you in the street. He's still not sure if he likes it
Inside Features
Gorillaz tale makes tracks online
Friday, 24 April 2009
A documentary about Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's virtual band has premiered on an internet and mobile phone website. James Mottram watches the future, and wonders if Hollywood is scared
Robert Pattinson - A Hogwarts wizard in vampire heaven
Friday, 24 April 2009
Robert Pattinson's death in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' was only the beginning. James Mottram meets the heart-throb blood-sucker who has now found the essence of Salvador Dali
Party Of The Week: Beam us up to Skylon
Friday, 24 April 2009
After the London premiere of J J Abrams' must-see movie 'Star Trek' on Monday was the glitzy party at Skylon. Guests including Jonathan Ross and Jeremy Clarkson sipped Enterprise and Star Fleet cocktails. Many of the Enterprise crew turned up – Zachary Quinto (Spock) and screen siren Zoe Saldana (Uhura), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Eric Bana (Nero), John Cho (Hikaru Sulu) and Karl Urban (Dr Leonard 'Bones' McCoy). Located within the Royal Festival Hall, Skylon overlooks the River Thames, with floor-to- ceiling windows.
Screen Talk: Teen musical to spring into action?
Friday, 24 April 2009
Known in Hollywood simply as McG, the former video and music producer and director is in talks to bring the Broadway rock musical 'Spring Awakening' to the big screen.
How to live long and prosper
Thursday, 23 April 2009
John Walsh: Can passionate, impulsive earthlings learn from cool, judicious and sensible Mr Spock and his fellow Vulcans?
The Independent Film Forum: 11. In the Loop
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Our film forum is your chance to pass judgement on a recent release. Here's a selection of your views on Armando Iannucci's political satire
Clint: How I changed the world of Westerns
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Damon Wise: Twenty years after the death of his friend director Sergio Leone, Eastwood recalls how they won the West
The big match: What happened when 'good socialist' Ken Loach met Eric Cantona, a legend of one of the world's richest football clubs?
Sunday, 19 April 2009
One is a softly spoken, campaigning film-maker and a 'good Socialist'. The other is a legend of one of the world's richest football clubs (and a bit moody). So when they united on the Manchester location of the director's latest film, did Ken and Eric play nicely?
Culture: A golden age for young 'bromance'
Sunday, 19 April 2009
What distinguishes men in their twenties and thirties from men of my generation? For one thing, we were much less obsessed with personal grooming when we were their age. We didn't moisturise, we didn't exfoliate and we didn't make a "feature" of our hair. (I'm talking about straight men, obviously.) More importantly, we didn't engage in close physical contact with our male friends. Unless very drunk, we did not tell other men that we loved them.
The Coen brothers - Kings of the wild frontier
Friday, 17 April 2009
The makers of 'Fargo', 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', and 'The Big Lebowski' are to remake John Wayne's finest moment. Geoffrey Macnab tells the story of the original 'True Grit', and assesses their chances
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1 Robert Pattinson - A Hogwarts wizard in vampire heaven
2 Face it: Portrait painting is cool again
3 British films battle for Palme D'Or (thanks to taxpayers)
4 The Big Question: Why does Bob Dylan keep touring and is he still the best?
5 The Vulcan way: How to live long and prosper
6 Album: Depeche Mode, Sounds of the Universe (Mute)
8 Consider yourself a Muslim, Fagin
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Let The Right One In, 15
It’s been tagged as “the Swedish vampire movie”, but this film plays not as a harum-scarum horror but as a touching and weirdly chaste love story. Kåre Hedebrant stars as a 12-year-old who, in a snowbound suburb of Stockholm, befriends a young girl and begins to understand why she only appears after dark.
Nationwide
The 400 Blows, PG
Rerelease of the director’s astonishing debut, 50 years old this year but retaining the vigour and insolence of the youth it celebrates.
Limited release
Monsters vs Aliens, PG
A 1950s creature feature reimagined and streamlined by the digimation boffins at DreamWorks, with Reese Witherspoon voicing a Californian girl who on her wedding day is hit by a meteorite and transformed into a 50ft woman.
In the Loop, 15
Armando Iannucci’s debut feature is a satire on the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, complete with dodgy dossiers, false “intel” and a supine UN. Peter Capaldi reprises his role from the TV series ‘The Thick of It’ as Tucker, the foul-mouthed governmental puppeteer.
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Il Divo, 15
An extraordinarily sinister dramatic portrait of Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s most significant politician of the post-war era, who faced numerous trials on conspiracy and corruption charges, and always escaped.
Nationwide