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Film Review: Like Crazy

rated 15 ***

IF YOU enjoy films which make it as difficult for two long-distance lovers to get together as would be the case in real life, then you’ll find quite a lot to like about this film.Read

Film Review: Sitter

rated 15 *

THE most interesting thing about this week’s Oscar nominations was not who was in, but who was left out.Read

Bollywood: Manish Gajjar previews now Bolly-Brit movie Naachle London.

NEXT month will see the UK’s first ‘Bolly-Brit’ film being released in cinemas.Read

Film Review: Coriolanus

rated 15 ***

RARELY performed even today, Coriolanus remains one of Shakespeare’s least understood and most brutal plays.Read

Film Review: Jack Goes Boating (15) * * * That Girl in Yellow Boots (18) * *

JUST like Clint Eastwood with J. Edgar and Ralph Fiennes with Coriolanus, this is a film directed by a star.Read

Film Review: J. Edgar

rated 15 ***

IT almost reads as if Clint Eastwood has made a movie about a spoof X Factor group called Jedgar.Read

Film Review: Haywire

rated 15 ***

AS THE Oscar-winning director of Traffic in 2001 – when he was also nominated for Erin Brockovich – professor’s son Steven Soderbergh is clearly one of Hollywood’s smartest talents.Read

Films: Family has paid price of my box office success

HE IS, by the odd billion dollars, comfortably ahead of the directing pack at the top of the all-time US box office charts.Read

Film Review: Shame

rated 18 ***

STEVE McQueen won the Golden Camera award at Cannes for his debut film Hunger in 2008, rounded off later with the Most Promising Newcomer award at the 2009 Baftas.Read

Bollywood: Player

rated 12A **

Charlie (Abhishek) is a chartered accountant by day and a razor-sharp, master-thief by night.Read

Film Review: War Horse

rated 12A ****

STEVEN Spielberg says he doesn’t agonise intellectually over which movies to make – they just find him.Read

Film Review: The Darkest Hour

rated 12A **

EMILE Hirsch has got good form as someone trying to survive against the odds, as anyone who saw him in Sean Penn’s masterful Into the Wild (2007) will testify.Read

Film Review: Margin Call

rated 15 ****

IF YOU’VE ever been fired or know someone who has or is possibly about to be, then the first 15 minutes of this new movie will send huge shivers down your spine.Read

Film Review: Mother and Child

rated 15 *****

ANNETTE Bening has had three best actress Oscar nominations and one for best supporting actress, too.Read

Film Review: The Iron Lady

rated 12A *****

ON MAY 3, 1979, Margaret Thatcher famously won her first General Election – and then lasted 11½ years at No 10 to become Britain’s longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century.Read

Film Reviews: We Have A Pope (PG) * * * An African Election (PG) * * *

JUST when you thought 2012 wasn’t going to be an election year, along come two movies at once to prove you wrong.Read

Film Review: Goon

rated 15

THE first week of January is always one of the best for new movies as The King’s Speech proved last year and The Iron Lady and Mother and Child are doing likewise in 2012.Read

Bollywood: Farhan Akhtar talks to the Birmingham Mail about the making of hit movie Don 2

Q: What was it like making Don 2?Read

Mixed reviews for Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (gallery)

CRITICS have praised Meryl Streep’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in controversial new biopic The Iron Lady, which opens tomorrow, but given the film as a whole a mixed reception.Read

Movies: Graham Young's Films of the Year 2011.

GRAHAM YOUNG reviews the highs and lows of 2011 at the cinema.Read