Captain Phillips ****

Also: The Odd Life of Timothy Green, All Things to All Men, Spring Breakers.

Home is where the heart is in Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders’s energetic romp about a prehistoric family who embark on a perilous quest to find a new settlement.

If such a thing as a functional, loving and contented family exists in the modern age, it seldom graces the big screen.

Toni Collette has signed up Nicole Holofcener's new comedy.

From the young romance of ‘Going the Distance’ to the older and more fraught romance we have here, an interesting story with well-observed characters.

Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) is struggling at high school and rowing constantly with his mother Sally (Catherine Keener), who has married a loser called Gabe (Joe Pantoliano).

A gentle, well thouhht-out drama with a solid and charmingly observed strength of characters this tale set in New York is the week's pick, thanks to the writing, directing and watchable ensemble playing.

If Jonze’s stunningly brilliant adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s much-loved children’s story doesn’t clean up at the next Oscars bash then we live in a cruel and unfair world.

Clive Owen is to star in David Schwimmer's new movie.

Hollywood stars Benicio Del Toro and Catherine Keener are secretly dating, according to reports.

THE road-trip drama Into the Wild received a leading four Screen Actors’ Guild Awards nominations yesterday, including honours for lead actor Emile Hirsch and supporting players Hal Holbrook and Catherine Keener.

Road-trip drama 'Into the Wild' received four Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations today.

Penn, taking a true story about a man (Hirsch) who gives everything up to seek a new life in the wilderness, fashions a curious, yet endlessly fascinating, film of great visual beauty and deep human understanding.

Strongly dramatic tale of a hippy dad (Day-Lewis) who begins to harbour impure thoughts about his teenage daughter (Belle).

Rocker Courtney Love and Oscar-nominated Capote director Bennett Miller have sparked rumours they are a couple after being spotted together at a recent Hollywood party.

Much praise, including a BAFTA, for Hoffman who plays, to brilliant perfection, Stateside author Truman Capote in one of the outstanding films of the year.

British actress Rachel Weisz is lacking confidence about her recent Academy Award nomination for her role in The Constant Gardener.

The cowboy love story Brokeback Mountain led the Academy Awards field today with eight nominations, including those for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

Gay cowboys, country singers, literary lions, a bullheaded CIA agent and a transsexual on a road trip are among the likely cast of characters for Academy Awards nominations today.

Ang Lee's gay romance Brokeback Mountain was hailed as the finest movie of 2005 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Saturday.

A film about a 40-year-old man who has yet to, er, you know, nudge-nudge, wink-wink; you know, do it; well, it might have turned out to be a knuckles-on-the-ground low-brainer.

Just as long as you don't think about it too closely Pollack's political thriller turns out to be a decent enough drama, helped by the performances of Kidman and Penn.

In one of those film-within-a-film films the performers, some of them with excellent credentials, stroll past and decide to nip in to see what's happening.

Catherine Keener is to star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in his new film Rose and the Snake.

Here, in a disappointing comedy, director Pacino has his star, Ryder, do a runner.

Julia Roberts and David Duchovny have attended the premiere of their new film in California.

Julia Roberts and David Duchovny have attended the premiere of their new film in California.

Julia Roberts has been persuaded to do a nude scene in her new movie, according to reports.