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Chiwetel Ejiofor, Favour Asikpa and Thandie Newton in 'Half of a Yellow Sun'

'Ejiofor gives another powerful performance'

Review: Half Of A Yellow Sun

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Father figure: Brendan Gleeson stars in the dark comedy 'Calvary'

Calvary - film review

John Michael McDonagh's religious comedy is just heavenly

Arts & Entertainment

Jeremy Irvine will star in Roland Emmerich's gay rights movie Stonewall

Jeremy Irvine cast in gay rights movie Stonewall

Roland Emmerich's next film will explore the 1969 LGBT riots in New York

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Frozen soundtrack set to overttake The Lion King's record

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Kurt Cobain plays a gig with Nirvana in 1993, before his death the following year aged 27

Kurt Cobain film Soaked in Bleach gets trailer

Docu features unseen footage of late star

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Ejiofor tipped as James Bond's next arch-nemesis

Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose favourite films suggest what he looks for in a good baddy

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Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe in Noah

'Soggy and bombastic'

Review: Aronofsky's Noah makes for heavy going viewing

Arts & Entertainment

Mirror man: Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska in The Double

The Double, review

Richard Ayoade's surreal film makes for twice the fun

Arts & Entertainment

Steve Coogan attends the Alpha Papa premiere in character as Alan Partridge

Alan Partridge to return for Alpha Papa sequel

Steve Coogan will reprise his role as the Norfolk DJ for a new movie

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Actor Logan Lerman says a third Percy Jackson film could still get the green light

Logan Lerman: Percy Jackson 3 could still happen

Actor dismisses claims the film's third installment has been scrapped by studio

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Emma Watson plays Hermione in the Harry Potter films, flanked by Ron (Rupert Grint) and Harry (Daniel Radcliffe)

JK Rowling's Harry Potter spin-off to be made into film trilogy

'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' to get three films

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From failed dancer to star: the Mia Wasikowska story

Wasikowska as the shifty Hannah in The Double

The actress reveals how she bounced back to become the world's highest-grossing female film star

Arts & Entertainment

This is an adolescent film, full of shock tactics and posturing on behalf of both director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader but it possesses extraordinary, miasmatic power.

The best films of all time

The Independent's film critic Geoffrey Macnab gives his verdict on the most enduring films

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Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, seated next to a picture of his missing wife Amy, played by Rosamund Pike

Gone Girl trailer released

Soundtrack makes thriller seem more like a sad romantic tale

Arts & Entertainment

Johnny Depp awards Josh Hutcherson for Best Male Performance for his role in the Hunger Games

Hunger Games Catching Fire sweeps the board at MTV movie awards

See the winners' list in full

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Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in 2002's Die Another Day

Pierce Brosnan: 'My James Bond was never good enough'

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Grand Budapest Hotel becomes Wes Anderson's first $100m-grossing film

Arts & Entertainment

Truman makes a shock discovery in The Truman Show

The Truman Show to be adapted for TV

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Rain over me: Russell Crowe stars in Darren Aronofsky's epic 'Noah'

Noah screening cancelled due to flooding

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Chewbacca poses at Star Wars premiere

Chewbacca's back

Peter Mayhew to reprise his role in Star Wars: Episode VII

Arts & Entertainment

Richard Armitage stars as leader of the dwarves Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy

Richard Armitage on Game of Thrones

Hobbit star could be tempted by role in 'brilliant' show

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Studious: Dakota Fanning, who still attends classes in New York

Dakota Fanning on how to grow up gracefully

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Olivia Colman will play a Neighbourhood Watch event organise in the movie adaptation of hit musical production London Road

Olivia Colman to star in movie adaptation of London Road

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Noah star Logan Lerman says the film is a 'good telling' of the Biblical story

Logan Lerman defends 'blasphemous' Noah

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Brittany Murphy's father is pushing for the inquiry into her death to be re-opened after heavy metals were found in her tissue samples

Watch trailer for Brittany Murphy's final film

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Actor Zac Efron

Zac Efron to star in new John Grisham film

Arts & Entertainment

James Gandolfini stars as bar owner Marv in Michael Roskam's forthcoming crime thriller The Drop

Final James Gandolfini film trailer released

Arts & Entertainment

Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz in Jake Kasdan's forthcoming comedy 'Sex Tape'

The Sex Tape the stars want you to see

Arts & Entertainment

Ben Stiller is reportedly in talks to play Chippendales choreographer Nick DeNoia in a new Alan Ball movie

Ben Stiller tipped for Chippendales movie role

Arts & Entertainment

US actor James Franco

James Franco to star as gay activist in new movie

Arts & Entertainment

Russell Crowe in a dramatic scene from Darren Aronofsky's Noah

Noah tops US box office

Arts & Entertainment

Comedy queen: Miranda Hart has said that she is excited about working on the new film

Miranda Hart for spy film

Arts & Entertainment

Rumours that Bradley Cooper is to play Indiana Jones in a new film have been denied by Lucasfilm

Bradley Cooper Indiana Jones rumours rubbished

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Ricky Gervais: 'People are waiting for me to fail'

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