IT’S now two decades since The Fifteen Streets launched what became the first in a hugely popular series of TV adaptations of Catherine Cookson’s romantic sagas.Read
ORIGINALLY titled My Life In Ruins, Donald Petrie’s bumbling romantic comedy marks the long- awaited return of Nia Vardalos to the big screen, seven years after her self-penned, Oscar-nominated smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding.Read
PAUL WS Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt haul the sets of their 1997 collaboration Event Horizon out of storage and give them a new lick of paint for this deep space thriller directed by Christian Alvart (Antibodies).Read
BASED on a true story, French director Robert Guédiguian’s taut drama opens in wartime Paris with 22 arrested resistance fighters about to face a firing squad.Read
In new film The Invention Of Lying, which he wrote, directed and stars in, Ricky Gervais plays loser Mark Bellison who, though unlucky in love and work, is also the only person who can lie in an alternate reality where everyone tells the whole truth.Read
WRITER-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor abandon the turbo-charged action of Crank and its sequel for grim futurism in this all-guns-blazing variation on The Running Man.Read
IN the year that marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Hollywood gets in on the act.Read
PAUL Bettany has been wowing theatre goers and independent movie fans for years, but it took his buttock-baring turn as Chaucer in 2001’s A Knight’s Tale for Hollywood ‘bigwigs’ to sit up and take notice.Read
LOOSELY adapted from Alan Clarke’s seminal 1989 TV drama, this is a brutal and unflinching portrait of hooliganism and male bonding, set to a funky soundtrack of The Gap Band, The Jam, Kool & The Gang, Donna Summer and Tears For Fears.Read
ABOUT a million light years from the cosseted corridors of Vogue in The September Issue is the unlovely Essex council estate where Fish Tank is set.Read
MERYL Streep looks certain to secure a 16th Oscar nomination for her tour-de-force portrayal of an American cultural icon in the new comedy from writer-director Nora Ephron (Sleepless In Seattle).Read
