A Cambodian film, featuring clay figures to portray events in the country’s past for which the pictures are missing, has been chosen as the best film in the more artistic side-bar of the Cannes Film Festival. The jury, headed by the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, chose Rithy Panh’s a...
Star Trek Into Darkness topped the US box office on its North American opening weekend with $84.1 million, easily outpacing the $79.2 million bow of the 2009 instalment of the franchise. Directed by JJ Abram, who was behind rebooting Star Trek, the Sci-fi blockbuster features the return of Chris P...
Local councillors in South Buckinghamshire have dealt a second major blow to Pinewood Shepperton’s £200m expansion plans. The studios had hoped to create about 3000 jobs as part of a fifteen year project to build new sound-stages and streetscapes at the site at Iver Heath. A more ambitious pr...
One of the stars of the Olympic sitcom Twenty Twelve, Olivia Colman, has surprised many, including herself, by taking two of the top honours at this year’s TV BAFTA awards. At a glittering ceremony, at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank, Colman first set foot on the stage as p...
At the top of the domestic charts this week is Iron Man 3 with $175.3 million. Iron Man is the only superhero from the Marvel series to take this much money and is the second-biggest domestic opening of all time and worldwide gross that is already higher than the total for Iron Man 2. Starring Rob...
One of the father figures of modern British comedy – and travel presenter – Michael Palin is to receive one of the top honours in television in the UK. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is to present the Monty Python star with a Fellowship of the organisation at this month&...
Michael Bay’s crime dramady, Pain and Gain, opened number one in North America with $20 million in the box office over the weekend. Based on real events, the film tells the story of three bodybuilders (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie) whose plot to extort and murder rich victims goe...
The British director Lynne Ramsay, who’s We Need To Talk About Kevin, was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes two years ago, has been named as part of this year’s jury, presided over by Steven Spielberg. Others on the jury, that will pick this year’s winner at Cannes, incl...
Oblivion, a sci-fi starring Tom Cruise, was at the top of the charts for this week. Coming in at more than $38 million domestically and directed by Joseph Kosinski, the director of TRON: Legacy, domestic critics have referred to the movie as an excellent example of the sci-fi genre. The life story o...
Speaking in Cancun, where he is promoting his latest movie Elysium, Boston-native Matt Damon expressed his horror and shock at the fact that the Boston marathon bomber, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin high School, which he and his friend Ben Affleck had graduat...
