If Planet Earth was decimated by a series of earthquakes and tsunamis, followed by an alien invasion designed to exterminate the pockets of human resistance, you’d stake money on Tom Cruise emerging unscathed from the melee.

For more than a decade, ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels’ has spawned an array of UK crime thrillers awash with dodgy geezers, graphic violence and Cock-er-ney rhyming slang.

Brace yourself for the boxing analogies.

Stars braving the rain-soaked red carpet at the Baftas last night chose to play it safe, with many dressing in black.

* Best actress winner Andrea Riseborough works her caped Jenny Packham dress at the 2013 London Evening Standard British Film Awards. She oozes old Hollywood. Shame about the ghost face though.

'Skyfall' picked up the Film of the Year award at the London Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Record-breaking James Bond hit Skyfall was a double winner at a major British movie awards event tonight.

Daniel Day-Lewis’ dominance of awards season is set to continue after he received another best actor nomination for his performance in Lincoln.

In Shadow Dancer, the domestic is a metaphor for the political as an IRA volunteer betrays her family by turning MI5 informer, says Alan O’Riordan

Shadow Dancer ***

Sectarian violence in the North provides the makers of ‘Shadow Dancer’ with stories drawn from fact and fiction to recreate these dark decades of murder, reprisals and political meddling.

The winners of the Edinburgh International Film Festival awards were announced today as the 66th event drew to a close.

Morgan Freeman has signed up to star alongside Tom Cruise in 'Oblivion'.

THE story of how Edward VIII (James D’Arcy) abdicated the English throne for the love of the American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) in 1936 might be a familiar one, but W.E. (16s) offers an unusual perspective, exploring the tale from Simpson’s point of view, and taking into account the fact that while Edward gave up his throne for Wallis, she sacrificed her entire life for him.

Madonna thinks "love" is the secret to looking young.

Madonna said tonight that perfect love was unattainable as she attended the premiere of her new film, W.E.

Madonna will walk the red carpet tonight at the premiere of her royal romance 'W.E'.

POPSTAR Madonna thanked her ex-husbands for encouraging her to take up a career in movies, as she arrived in Venice for the world premiere of her lavish royal drama WE.

GEORGE CLOONEY’S third directorial effort, The Ides of March, and Madonna’s second, WE, are bound for the Venice Film Festival, so the paparazzi should be out in force.

James McAvoy is set to star in new thriller 'Trance'.

Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough are to star in a new spy thriller set during the peace process in the North in the 1990s.

Madonna's new film will get its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

LESS STYLISH than Raging Bull, less euphoric than the Rocky films, The Fighter (US/15A/115 mins) is a boxing movie made in the image of its hero, ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a solid but unspectacular Irish-American scrapper who slugged his way to a shot at the world title in the mid-’90s.

The perfect example of a film that never required re-making, especially since the new version turns out to be such a clunking disappointment. You cannot improve on perfection.

Real-life father and son James and Laurence Fox are to play royal relatives after being cast in Madonna’s new film about Wallis Simpson, it was announced today.

Helen Mirren has joined the cast of 'Brighton Rock'.

Jonathan Ross was today nominated for a Bafta television award for his controversial chat show.

Director Leigh, famous for his unstructured impro films, comes up with another gem in teacher Poppy - wonderfully played by Hawkins - who sails through life sprinkling it with optimistic goodness and light. A real can-do girl.