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Trailer trash
Ayrton Senna's greatest rival emerges from obscurity, Oxford's pub life is corrupted, and Bolton supporters bask in their club's heroic war effortWandering freeMakers of a film about the heroic...
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X-Men has good (but not first-class) opening US weekend ...
... while Transformers, Harry Potter and Kung Fu Panda 2 ensure US box offices will enjoy a bumper blockbuster seasonWord is that Michael Fassbender can pretty much take his pick of the roles after his...
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Does X-Men get a first class in history?
Yes, we know it suggests that mutants saved the world from a nuclear apocalypse in 1962. Stop focusing on the detailsX-Men: First Class (2011)Director: Matthew VaughnEntertainment grade: A–History...
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James McAvoy 'to take lead' in Danny Boyle's Trance
Scottish star has reportedly replaced fellow X-Men: First Class actor Michael Fassbender in Danny Boyle's next filmJames McAvoy, star of The Last King of Scotland and X-Men: First Class, has replaced...
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The Conspirator – review
Robert Redford's account of the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination is a po-faced history lesson that makes its points rather too obviously, writes Peter BradshawA very stuffy Madame Tussaud's...
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Pirates conquer Comic-Con for Aardman
The animation market may be increasingly crowded, but Aardman's Peter Lord won over the San Diego crowd with Arthur Christmas and The Pirates! Band of MisfitsThe good ship animation has an increasingly...
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Invasion of the dumbasses
What is it with the space-invader films that are all the same? Are movies about our real-life woes too close to the bone, or is Hollywood out of ideas?Last month I went to see X-Men: First Class. It...
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
The Conspirator; Retreat; Mother's Day; Screwed; George Harrison: Living in the Material WorldConsidering the star power he still wields both in front of and behind the camera, it's extraordinary that...
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
The Princess of Montpensier; The Tree of Life; The Way; X-Men: First Class; Everything Must GoIt would be easy to dismiss The Princess of Montpensier (2010, Studiocanal, 15) as little more than a...
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Arthur Christmas – review
Aardman's Christmas movie boasts a wonderful script and a heartfelt seasonal messageChristmas Eve, 23:00 hours. A team of elf commandos target a town. They enter a house through windows, the catflap...
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Arthur Christmas – review
In Aardman's latest animation, a graphically accomplished but otherwise rather commonplace 3D seasonal offering, three generations of the Christmas family start arguing about their business...
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Luck has a lot do with it'
Child TV stars don't find it easy to move into film. But the former Third Rock from the Sun actor has forged a successful – if unconventional – path to big-screen stardomI'm moving through the lobby of...
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Matthew Vaughn to direct sequel to X-Men: First Class
Studio rehires director for follow-up to X-Men: First Class, with Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy also returningMatthew Vaughn has been hired to direct the sequel to his own superhero reboot X-Men:...
View ArticleThe Olivier awards 2012 - in pictures
Stars of the stage gather at the Royal Opera House in London for awards recognising excellence in professional theatre
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WikiLeaks film adds James McAvoy to cast
The Scottish actor is up for the role of WikiLeaks' insider Daniel Domscheit-Berg, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian AssangeThe Last King of Scotland actor James McAvoy is set to join Benedict...
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Glasgow film festival lifts curtain on biggest programme
Cloud Atlas, partly filmed in the city, and Stoker are among 360 films to be screened at 27 venues in event's busiest calendarOne of the UK's fastest growing film festivals has unveiled its biggest...
View ArticleTrance: watch the trailer for Danny Boyle's new film - video
Watch the trailer for Danny Boyle's new film, an art heist thriller with a psychological twist
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Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in the WikiLeaks movie – first picture
As The Fifth Estate, the hotly anticipated WikiLeaks movie - partly based on the book by Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding – goes into production, the first image of Cumberbatch in the lead...
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What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips
A Fake Moon rises over Bristol at the IBT festival, Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat! scurries into Birmingham, and James McAvoy tackles the Scottish play in LondonNorthThe big opening this week is Roger...
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Macbeth; If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep; A Chorus Line –...
Trafalgar Studios; Royal Court; Palladium, LondonThe wonderful thing about Jamie Lloyd's production of Macbethis that the Scottish play is Scottish. There is a rightness about the accents – it's almost...
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