Jay and Mark Duplass broke into the movie-making scene as part of the lo-fi movement dubbed ''mumblecore''.

When crafting a follow-up to the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time, it's understandable that one might be reticent to mess with a winning formula.

THOR (12A) has all the hallmarks of a movie made not for its own sake but for the purpose of establishing a franchise.

The traditional discomforts and misfortunes of the fish-out-of-water central character are given a mild, though charming, workover as career stalled insurance salesman Tim (Helms) – the guy everybody predicted would be going places fast, but didn’t – is sent from his small town to an annual convention in slightly bigger city Cedar Rapids to try to save his company.

The three stars of 'The Hangover' have signed up to make a sequel.

Family members of victims in a fatal mining accident became enraged and lunged at a coal company official after being told today that only one of 13 miners had survived a mine explosion, witnesses said.

U2 star Bono took time out of his concert preparations on Monday night to dine with North Carolina's right-wing senator Jesse Helms.

The space shuttle Discovery has landed successfully at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.