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Colin Firth takes risks in new film ‘Arthur Newman’ British actors Colin Firth and Emily Blunt star in the romantic comedy ‘Arthur Newman’. Firth plays a man totally bored by himself and his existence, so he… 02/05/2013
Scary Movie 5: a sequel too far? “Frightenly unfunny”, is how one critic describes the fifth film in the Scary Movie franchise. A couple – played by Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan – are… 19/04/2013
Almodóvar Is So Excited Pedro Almodóvar’s new film – ‘I’m So Excited’ – is a far cry from his last directorial outing. Whilst “The Skin I Live In” was a Hitchcockian psychological… 18/03/2013
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Steve Carrel and Jim Carrey have teamed up for a comedy about illusionists. The glamorous assistant is played by Olivia Wilde. She said: “This film is about… 13/03/2013
Bravura Song for Marion ‘Song for Marion’ stars Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave and Gemma Arterton. It is the story of a difficult man mourning his wife, and finding solace in… 06/03/2013
Karl-Horst Hödicke retrospective A retrospective exhibition of the work of Karl-Horst Hödicke has opened in Berlin. Hödicke is seen as something of the Godfather of German Neo-expressionism… 28/02/2013
Fleshing out love in ‘Warm Bodies’ Canadian film ‘Warm Bodies’ is a spoof on the whole teeny Twilight genre with a sly poke at Romeo and Juliet thrown in for good measure. Reviewers have… 28/02/2013
Inside the UN French filmmaker Betrand Tavernier shot scenes from his new movie, the black comedy Quai D’Orsay, inside the United Nations building in New York. 16/01/2013
‘Twilight’ bids to be year’s top turkey ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part II’ has topped this year’s worst-in-cinema dishonours, the ‘Razzies’, with 11 nominations, including worst acting… 10/01/2013
Maguire dumps the Spidey suit for ‘The Details’ You might say the devil is in ‘The Details’, the hoped-for breakout role for Tobey Maguire after ‘Spiderman’. And with only three films in 10 years it may… 02/11/2012
Family laughs as “Fun Size” hits the silver screen “Fun Size” is a family comedy, which follows the fortunes of a highschool girl whose cocky little brother goes missing while she is babysitting. It means… 30/10/2012
Asterix and Obelix head for Britain The French comic book heros are back; this time in 3D. Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia is the fouth installment in the franchise and sees Asterix cross… 17/10/2012
Zoe Kazan on bringing Ruby Sparks to life Ruby Sparks – the story of a young writer who creates a character who comes to life – explores reality and the power of the imagination. The film also… 10/10/2012
Walken stars as dog-napper in Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh’s comedy Seven Psychopaths stars Colin Farrell as an alcoholic Irish screenwriter and Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell as his two… 04/10/2012
‘The Watch’ opens in Los Angeles Funnymen Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn strolled down the red carpet for the premiere of their newest comedy film ‘The Watch’ on Monday. The film… 25/07/2012
Naughty bear ‘Ted’ opens in Europe Teddy bears are pretty popular film characters. But don’t be misled, because this particular ‘Ted’ isn’t your average cuddly toy. The stuffed bear hangs… 24/07/2012
Channing Tatum on Magic Mike and his stripper past Oscar-winning director Steven Soderberg’s latest film Magic Mike is about a veteran male stripper – played by Channing Tatum – who teaches a newcomer (Alex… 27/06/2012
Rock of Ages: big screen tribute to ’80s nostalgia Tom Cruise was joined by fellow Rock of Ages cast members on the red carpet at London’s Leicester Square. Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti and… 11/06/2012
Josh Brolin as young Tommy Lee Jones in MiB 3 Will Smith stars as Agent J in Men in Black 3. He must travel back to the 1960s to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and altering the course… 29/05/2012
new comedy for expectant parents hits cinemas This month sees the release of the big screen comedy ‘What to Expect When You’re expecting’. Staring Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez and Matthew Morrison, the… 09/05/2012
From Borat to Dictator Sacha Baron Cohen’s has been making more personal appearances to promote his new film The Dictator, appearing in character, complete with female bodyguards… 03/05/2012
Dark Shadows not merely make-up Johnny Depp is back on screens wearing yet another outrageous make-up design, this time as a time-shift vampire turning up lost in 1972. The director is Tim… 02/05/2012
Zany French jocks hit the road in Radiostars A new film about a group of radio presenters is impressing French audiences. Radiostars tells the story of a group of friends on a road-trip, but it is also… 12/04/2012
American Pie gang ‘reunited’ Thirteen years on, the original cast of the ‘American Pie’ franchise is back with a bang. The first film told the story of a group of friends desperate to… 09/04/2012
German comedy Russendisko on 1990s Berlin Three young Russian friends – Vladimir, Andrej and Mischa – move to Berlin just after the fall of the wall. Based on a best-selling German book, Russendisko… 28/03/2012
Lock, Stock’s Dexter Fletcher directs East End Western British actor Dexter Fletcher’s directorial debut is a Western with a twist; it’s set in the East End of London. Bill – played by Charlie Creed-Miles –… 26/03/2012
Where they belong: Muppets get Hollywood star Obviously, their star status was never in any doubt, but just to make it completely official the Muppets have been awarded the 2,466th star on Hollywood’s… 21/03/2012
From Caesar to the Intouchables The octagenarian Italian film director brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani were the stars of this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Their docu-drama Caesar Must… 07/03/2012
British film reveals India retirement mayhem Brit flick The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the story of a group of UK pensioners, who rather than retire to a Mediterranean beach resort, decide to head off… 29/02/2012
Love lost and found in ‘The Vow’ Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams star in ‘The Vow’. Based on a true story, the film is about newlyweds Leo and Paige, whose lives are changed forever by a… 08/02/2012
It’s time to meet the Muppets… again After a spell in the showbiz wilderness, the Muppets are persuaded to join forces again in a bid to save their old theatre from destruction by a greedy oil… 02/02/2012
Chuckles on the slopes: ski resort hosts film fest The French ski resort of l’Alpe d’Huez played host to the 15th edition of the International Comedy Film Festival, with movies from France, Canada and Belgium… 24/01/2012
Israeli film Footnote on road to Oscars The award-winning movie Footnote is on the way to the Academy Awards as Israel’s official entry in the Best Foreign Film category. Directed by Joseph Cedar… 29/11/2011
Jack and Jill Adam Sandler’s new movie “Jack and Jill” is out now. The movie co-stars Katie Holmes and features a host of A-listers making cameo appearances. This was due… 23/11/2011
Intouchables: the ‘unoriginal’ odd couple movie The Intouchables pairs a wealthy, paralysed aristocrat with an unconventional carer. Once more the French cinematic tradition of caricaturing the class system… 08/11/2011
Atkinson back as hapless spy Johnny English Rowan Atkinson returns as bumbling British secret agent Johnny English. He joined co-stars Gillian Anderson, Dominic West and Daniel Kaluuya for the premiere… 03/10/2011
How horrid is Henry? The book character ‘Horrid Henry’ is now in a 3D film, starring Theo Stevenson, Anjelica Huston, Richard E. Grant and Parminder Nagra. The American writer… 27/07/2011
Summer comedy “Horrible Bosses” hits screens “Horrible Bosses” is this summer’s Hollywood comedy starring three comic actors at the top of their art, including a delighfully sadistic Kevin Spacey… 12/07/2011
Kevin James talks to the animals in Zookeeper Kevin James stars as an amiable zookeeper who is unlucky with the ladies; cue advice on nature’s mating rituals from the zoo’s talking animals. 07/07/2011
Bad Teacher delivers zero morals entertainment Cameron Diaz is the foul-mouthed “Bad Teacher” in this summer’s new comedy, which reunites the actress with her former boyfriend Justin Timberlake. The… 17/06/2011
Carrey returns to comic roots with penguin movie Jim Carrey stars alongside a bunch of feathered friends in his new film Mr. Popper’s Penguins. The film is based on a 1938 kids book that tells the story… 15/06/2011
No humans harmed in the making of this movie The Hangover II has been premiered in Hollywood. The format remains close to the original film’s hugely successful format. A monkey called Crystal joins the… 24/05/2011
Moretti disappoints critics with film on Pope Italian director Nanni Moretti’s latest film, Habemus Papam, has been criticised for being too soft on the Church after its screening in Cannes. This… 17/05/2011
Panda mania in Cannes Cannes went Panda mad this week, with the out-of-competition screening of Kung Fu Panda 2, attended by Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman, all back… 13/05/2011
‘Arthur’ remake opens in London British actor Russell Brand and his pop singer wife Katy Perry attended the European Premiere of ‘Arthur’ in London this week. Brand plays the lead in this… 22/04/2011
Bonus: Sir John Eliot Gardiner & Dan Jemmett The ‘Musica’ bonus includes a few excerpts from our interview with conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and stage director Dan Jemmett. 19/04/2011
Sir John Eliot Gardiner takes Weber to Paris Der Freischütz – ‘The Freeshooter’ - is Carl Maria von Weber’s masterpiece and is considered the model for German Romantic opera. However, it is the French… 19/04/2011
Pirates of the Caribbean saga continues Jack Sparrow is back. This fourth series of pirate adventures involves a search for the fountain of youth. Both Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley have… 04/04/2011
Depp is lizard with a problem in Rango Johnny Depp’s latest movie release is an animated feature that casts him as a reptile with an identity crisis. Rango is a chameleon on a quest to establish… 04/03/2011
British comedy duo launch sci-fi spoof in London British comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have teamed up again for another popular culture parody with their latest film “Paul”. The pair play a couple… 08/02/2011
French Comedy Film Festival awards Finnish movie The jury at the Alpes d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival was unanimous this year in awarding its top prize. It was a movie in from the cold that… 25/01/2011
Bonus interview: John Malkovich & Martin Haselböck Here are a few extra excerpts from our interviews with John Malkovich and Martin Haselböck. 03/06/2010
“The Infernal Comedy”: John Malkovich gets operatic backing “The Infernal Comedy” is the autobiography of Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger performed on stage. Unterweger was imprisoned for murder but became a… 03/06/2010
Comedienne Phyllis Diller dies ages 95The woman known in the US as “the first lady of comedy”, Phyllis Diller has died at the age of 95. Her raucous laugh, zany wardrobe and jokes about herself… 21/08/2012
Merkel and Sarkozy’s “Dinner” becomes cult net hitA German reworking of a 1960s British comedy sketch has become an internet hit. The original Dinner for One is already cult viewing on New Year’s Eve in… 04/01/2012
Back in the Day: and now for something completely different…October 5, 1969. The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is aired on BBC television in the United Kingdom. The sketch-writing team was made up of… 04/10/2011
Centenary of Mexico’s ‘Groucho Marx’It is 100 years since the birth of one of Mexico’s best-loved popular characters. In his trademark baggy pants and scruffy clothes, Cantinflas embodied the… 12/08/2011
“Burke and Hare”: dead bodies were their business.Director John Landis is taking a darkly comic look at Williams Burke and Hare, the notorious serial killers of 19th century Edinburgh. They sold the bodies of… 29/10/2010
Star-studded cast in new Woody Allen movie“You will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” is out now, featuring a top-notch cast including Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins, in his first ever… 13/10/2010
Rhys Ifans is notorious dope smuggler “Mr Nice”Based on the bestselling autobiography of the same name, “Mr Nice” is the extraordinary story of Howard Marks, one of the world’s most successful marijuana… 11/10/2010
Dinner for SchmucksDinner for Schmucks is the latest Steve Carell offering. It’s a remake of the 1998 runaway success Le Diner de Cons (aka The Dinner Game) in which a group of… 20/07/2010
Carell plays grumpy Gru in Despicable MeSteve Carell lends his voice talents to supervillain-with-a-heart-of-gold Gru in Despicable Me, a computer-animated 3D film, produced by Christopher… 14/07/2010
Burlesque dancers On Tour in rural FranceJoachim, played by Mathieu Amalric, is a top TV producer in France but he jacks it all in to go to America. There he meets a troupe of Burlesque dancers, who… 01/07/2010
Life, death, ethics and furniture in Please GiveCatherine Keener stars as a antiques dealer with an overactive social conscience in the comedy Please Give. Directed by Nicole Holofcener, the film examines… 29/06/2010
Knight and DayTom Cruise and Cameron Diaz re-unite in this non-stop spy-action-comedy-action-slightly-romantic-action… er adventure. Critics have been on the sniffy side… 22/06/2010
Grint and Nighy team up in hitman comedyRupert Grint, Bill Nighy and Martin Freeman talk about their new comedy “Wild Target”, a British remake of a French farce about an assassin who falls for his… 18/06/2010
Brand reprises rock role in Get Him To The GreekBritish comedian Russell Brand resurrects his role as rock star Aldous Snow from the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall in the spin-off sequel Get Him To The… 04/06/2010
Grave reception for Death at a FuneralHollywood has decided to remake a British black comedy just three years after the original came out. This time Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan and Martin Lawrence… 20/04/2010
It’s A Wonderful Afterlife in London‘Bend it like Beckham’ director Gurinder Chadha presents new killer comedy, ‘It’s a Wonderful Afterlife’. The film is about an Indian mother desperate to… 15/04/2010
An evening to remember in ‘Date Night’Tina Fey and Steve Carell star in new comedy ‘Date Night’. The Fosters are a typical suburban couple but a case of mistaken identity in a Manhattan restaurant… 12/04/2010
The Infidel opens in the UKBritish comedian David Baddiel turns screenwriter for The Infidel, a satire which gleefully pokes fun at an area often avoided nowadays – the preconceptions… 09/04/2010
Millar’s Kick-Ass hits the big screenBased on the comic book series by Mark Millar, Kick-Ass is about nerdy New York teenager Dave Lizewski, who decides to become a superhero. 07/04/2010
GreenbergBen Stiller’s latest comedy also stars Rhys Ifans – the nightmare flatmate in Notting Hill, and the star DJ in the Boat the Rocked… and unless you’re among… 30/03/2010
Woody Harrelson in The DefendorWoody Harrelson stars in The Defendor. The Hollywood star is already up for an Oscar for his role in The Messenger. In the film he plays Arthur Poppington, a… 25/02/2010
Bruce Willis is back with new comedy Cop OutDirected by Kevin Smith, Willis plays veteran detective Jimmy Monroe, who wants to cash in on a rare collectable baseball card, so he can pay for his… 24/02/2010
High-altitude laughs in Alpe d’HuezAlpe d’Huez in the French Alps is known for its 21 hairpin bends, high-altitude skiing and, for the past 12 years, its international comedy film festival. 26/01/2010
Efron graduates to Orson WellesTween dreamboat Zac Efron is leaving High School Musical behind him, with his latest film Me And Orson Welles, also starring Christian McKay. 01/12/2009
From Germany the chick with two ears!Zweiohrkueken, the latest comedy from Germany -in English ‘The chick with two ears.’ The film follows a couple once madly in love, now struggling as routine… 26/11/2009
Dear WallGerman film Liebe Mauer – Dear Wall – is a romantic comedy set just before the Fall of the Wall. When Franzi (Felicitas Woll) goes shopping in East Berlin and… 11/11/2009
The Invention of LyingRicky Gervais wrote, co-directed and starred in this comedy about a liar in a truthful credulous world. Critics are calling it smart, cool and funny –… 01/10/2009
A Prophet/Neuilly Sa MereTwo new French films have hit the screens in Belgium and France this week. A Prophet is the controversial prison drama from French director Jacques… 28/08/2009
Whatever works worksWoody Allen’s new film “Whatever Works” stars Larry David, who better known as a writer and television actor, on shows such as “Saturday Night Live” and… 30/06/2009
US indie movie “Gigantic” on release in UKUpcoming US acting talents Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel team up in “Gigantic”, an offbeat love story set in New York City. Dano, who has already made a… 15/06/2009
The Hangover releasedThe Hangover is the latest tasteless gross-out comedy offering from Warner Bros. Director Todd Phillips is best-known for Will Ferrell vehicle “Old School”… 09/06/2009
The Brothers Bloom opensRian Johnson’s new film “The Brothers Bloom” is a comedy about a pair of con men starring Rachael Weisz, Mark Ruffalo, and Adrien Brody. Feel-good and… 28/05/2009
Comedy drama City Island on release across EuropeStarring Andy Garcia and Juliana Margulies, “City Island” is the story of an Italian-American family from New York whose members find out nothing is as it… 12/05/2009
Waters looks for repeat success with “Ghosts of Girlfriends past”‘‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’‘ throws a celebrity photographer who doesn’t like to be tied down when it comes to love towards a childhood friend at a wedding… 04/05/2009
Good friendships between menTwo men fall in like, in a new film comedy “I Love you Man”. A man gets engaged and realises he has no friend to be best man, so he goes on a long search. It… 16/04/2009
High School Musical star ends up back in classA middle-aged man played by Matthew Perry magically finds himself whisked back 20 years in time to his high school days. The age-swap concept is certainly… 01/04/2009
Pirate radio hits the big screenThe stars of a new British comedy, The Boat That Rocked, braved the chill London weather for the world premiere. 24/03/2009
‘Marley & me’ takes the biscuitDog comedy “Marley & Me” remains at the top of the US box office, beginning the new year as it ended the last one, as the weekend’s biggest-grossing film. The… 05/01/2009
