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Foul-mouthed King George VI is granted audience with under-15s

22.10.10
Film censors have reversed their decision to ban younger children from seeing new film The King’s Speech because of bad language... more

Keira Knightley too ill to attend boyfriend Rupert Friend's premiere

22.10.10
Actress Keira Knightley failed to attend the premiere of a film written and directed by her boyfriend Rupert Friend because she was unwell... more

BFI London Film Festival review: The King’s speech

21.10.10
A year after his acclaimed performance in Tom Ford’s A Single Man, Colin Firth delivers the finest of his career — as a stammering George VI... more

Hollywood stars go short to light up film festival

11.10.10
They may have to do without blockbuster budgets and expensive premieres but a host of movie stars are appearing in short films at this year’s BFI London Film Festival... more

The coalition plans a crime against women

10.06.10
The police and the activists are on the side of women who have been raped. Not so, it appears, the coalition government... more

Travellers’ tales from a game of musical statues

21.04.10
So, it’s all over. After the heady excitement of the volcano crisis, the skies are open again, BA is flying and the Continent is no longer cut off... more

I didn’t recognise Colin Firth, says best supporting fridge man

01.03.10
Fridge repair man thanked by Colin Firth in his Bafta acceptance speech has admitted he had 'no idea' who the actor was... more

Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth triumph at the Baftas

22.02.10
British actors Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth were the stars of the Baftas - but sci-fi hit Avatar failed to match its box office success. ... more

Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan honoured by film critics

19.02.10
Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan scooped the British Actor and Actress of the Year awards at the 30th Annual London Film Critics' Circle Awards. ... more

Ford fashions a slick, sharp period piece out of A Single Man

02.02.10
As you would expect from a purveyor of slick, sharp fashions, Tom Ford’s first film A Single Man looks immaculate. ... more

Colin Firth: Gay actors risk career if they come out

02.02.10
Colin Firth says gay actors risk missing out on work if they come out... more

Helen Mirren and Carey Mulligan lead Brit Oscars bid

02.02.10
British stars Colin Firth, Helen Mirren and Carey Mulligan have been nominated for best actor and best actress Oscars... more

Stars out for Colin Firth premiere

01.02.10
The premiere of A Single Man, the Bafta-nominated film starring Colin Firth as a gay academic mourning the death of his partner, is in town.... more

Here come the St Trinians girls again

18.12.09
Judging by the first of the new St Trinian's films, we shouldn't have expected more than rudimentary farce from the second... more

Britannia rules again as home-grown stars lead Globe nominees

15.12.09
Dame Helen Mirren, Colin Firth and Daniel Day-Lewis led the British charge for the Golden Globes today.... more

Video: Jim Carrey launches festival of Christmas lights in London

04.11.09
With 51 shopping days still to go, the Christmas lights in Oxford Street and Regent Street were switched on simultaneously for the first time.... more

A Single Man has coolness bordering on the chilly

16.10.09
Colin Firth gives an impeccably restrained performance in the lead role of A Single Man, an accomplished period piece from Tom Ford ... more

Dorian Gray: a movie for teenagers

11.09.09
Dorian Gray is based on Oscar Wilde’s short novel, which tells the story of a beautiful, innocent boy corrupted by praise and prose... more

In love with Mad Men's Betty Draper

12.05.09
Dear, dear Betty Draper... how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Lame as it may be to fall in love with a television character, I know that I am hardly alone... more

Winterbottom at his haunting best in Genova

26.03.09
Not a lot happens in Michael Winterbottom's family drama Genova but he skilfully provides what detail there is and leaves the viewer to supply the rest.... more

Unbelievable Coward in Easy Virtue

06.11.08
Easy Virtue purports to be about the fading aristo lifestyle after the First World War and the injection into it of American flash.... more

Jessica slips into Easy Virtue

29.10.08
How clever of director Stephan Elliott to cast Jessica Biel in Noel Coward’s critique of English snobbery, says Nick Curtis.... more

Colin Firth is ideal in this haunting tale of family loss

09.09.08
Toronto Film Festival: Trust Michael Winterbottom to make his family film, Genova, an eerie and unsettling ghost story... more

Mamma Mia! Abba reunite for the first time in 22 years for film premiere

04.07.08
Pop supergroup Abba have reunited for the first time in 22 years for the premiere of hit musical Mamma Mia!... more

Mama Mia! Scarlet woman Meryl Streep turns the blue carpet red at film premiere

30.06.08
She may be nearing 60 but Meryl Streep showed that she still had that extra something as she arrived for the the UK premiere of her new movie Mamma Mia.... more

Mamma Meryl! Get ready for an Abba singalong with the summer's most unexpected hit movie

12.06.08
Meryl Streep delivers the goods on Abba's classics and takes them from the West End to Hollywood with her athletic vibrant character. ... more

Screwball with a screw loose

28.02.08
The Accidental Husband is a terrible romantic comedy, looking like a bad Bollywood movie without the songs.... more

Fiery date in London for Uma Thurman

14.02.08
Uma Thurman enjoyed an early Valentine's date with Colin Firth and six firemen at the London premiere of her new film The Accidental Husband.... more

Backs to Hadrian's Wall

18.10.07
TV director Doug Lefler has bitten off more than he can chew with The Last Legion - an action movie set during the last years of the Roman Empire.... more

My father and other animals

04.10.07
And When Did You Last See Your Father is a film that probes deeply into feelings practically all of us experience at some time.... more

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