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Why does recession bring with it a thirst for dumb revenge dramas? Law Abiding Citizen , which I should say at the outset is a terrible, terrible movie – either the stupidest of the year so far or the most unintentionally funny – takes the urban revenge movie and grafts on to it certain ...
Drama
Law Abiding Citizen
A Serious Man (15) (Ethan & Joel Coen, 2009, US) Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick, Richard Kind. 105 mins. A "proper" Coens movie after the brothers' recent, atypical efforts, and it's one of their, and the year's, best, striking that contradictory, tragicomic, mundane-surreal tone only ...
Drama
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again There's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines ...
Drama
John Hurt
William Hurt
Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fame There is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-key interview with Oren Peli, who's in London for less than 24 hours ...
Horror
Paranormal Activity
Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles , Terminator Salvation DVD & Blu-ray, Warner, Sony If nothing else, watching McG 's Terminator Salvation at least puts Christian Bale's infamous on-set meltdown into perspective; if you had to pretend to be angry for so long in front of the camera ...
Sci-Fi
Robert Pattinson
Terminator
McG
Terminator Salvation
Christian Bale
London Children's Film Festival , London Is it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and screenings of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride , it's just one ...
Other
Tim Burton
Hayao Miyazaki
Jim Carrey This month Jim Carrey has been spending his billions on his website, which is just about the daftest and most brilliant official actor's site imaginable. Indeed, it is the website for which the word "awesome" was invented. Godlike magnificence awaits you as a tableau of giant sea ...
Drama
Jim Carrey
The Guidelines: random notes from pop culture There are copious strings to 50 Cent 's platinum bow. As well as being a rapper , self-help guru and inspiration to many , he's an actor and videogame voiceover artiste . Recently added to that list is "short film auteur". Before I Self Destruct is ...
Action
Martin Scorsese
Simon West
Peter Jackson
C4 documentary drama to portray the monarch in key moments since the 1950s Playing the Queen brought Helen Mirren international fame and enough awards to fill a trophy room. Now five more British actors are taking on the role in a new Channel 4 documentary drama series. The Queen, a five-part ...
Action
Queen Latifah
Helen Mirren
Would we have had Alien, Planet of the Apes and The Time Machine if it weren't for a certain bearded Victorian? Darwin, Evolution and the Movies is a one-off festival of film and live comedy to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species on 24 ...
Other
Charles S. Dutton
Once hailed as the man to shake up Hollywood, the maestro of dizzying, exquisitely choreographed action movies has returned to the far east Let's say from the start that the life of a major league film-maker, with a thriving career in several corners of the globe, is not one to be sniffed at. ...
Drama
John Woo
John Travolta
BFI Southbank to exhibit paintings and sketches of 'Freudian ballet' created for the film by Hein Heckroth The Red Shoes, Powell and Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece, is one of the most visually spectacular movies in British history, and an abiding inspiration for artists such as Martin ...
Other
Martin Scorsese
The director reveals the challenges of making the Twilight sequel in 10 months, why the film's werewolves transform so quickly, and how fans can get their fill of Robert Pattinson Ben Child
Drama
Twilight
New Moon
Chris Weitz
Robert Pattinson
The star of Elf and Anchorman zooms up from No 9 last year in the Forbes annual list on account of the box-office disappointment of this summer's Land of the Lost A year is a long time in Hollywood. This time 12 months ago, Will Ferrell was sitting pretty as one of America's most bankable ...
Comedy
Will Ferrell
The List
Ewan McGregor
Tom Cruise
Eddie Murphy
Leonardo DiCaprio
Beck and Charlotte teamed up for the album IRM earlier this year, and this week the video to their song Heaven Can Wait was posted online. The song we like, but the video (courtesy of Keith Schofield ) we love . Beck Pop and rock guardian.co.uk/music guardian.co.uk © Guardian ...
Animation
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Up
Chris Rock
The comedy that takes the Coen brothers back to their roots is slick, funny and gloriously misanthropic, but Xan Brooks finds it hard to love Xan Brooks
Comedy
A Serious Man
Coen Brothers
Set in 1930s Indochina, the widow of a French civil servant comes up with an ambitious construction project to save her rice plantation
Other
The cloistered world of a 1930s girls' school swim team is disrupted by the arrival of a new pupil
Other
A management consultant specialised in firing people has his world turned upside down when he meets the woman of his dreams
Comedy
Up In the Air
George Clooney
Biopic of little-known but brilliant French artist Seraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), whose life took a fantastical turn when she was discovered by German art critic Wilhelm Uhde
