God’s Pocket (15A) is a hardscrabble, blue-collar neighbourhood infested with grifters and thieves.

Christina Hendricks was dropped by her agency after accepting a role on Mad Men.

Captain Phillips ****

“Happiness is the enemy,” says Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) during Rush (15A), and you fear that Ron Howard’s movie about the rivalry between 1970s Formula 1 stars Lauda and James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) is going to descend into simplistic tale of Hunt’s cavalier flair triumphing over Lauda’s dour efficiency.

Not content with decimating the White House in his 1996 sci-fi blockbuster ‘Independence Day’, director Roland Emmerich reduces the Washington landmark to rubble again in this preposterous, high-octane action thriller.

The US premiere of ‘Jack Reacher’, an explosive action thriller based on the book ‘One Shot’ by Lee Child, was postponed in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The decision was understandable.

Jack Reacher (12A) opens with the murder of five civilians by Iraq War sniper veteran James Barr (Joseph Sikora).

Crime does pay and the price tag is your life in 'Killing Them Softly', an artfully composed, slow-burning crime thriller based on the novel 'Cogan’s Trade' by George V Higgins.

Brad Pitt hopes his films will be a legacy for his children to watch when they are older.

The Cabin in the Woods (16s) begins in an entirely conventional fashion, as five college kids take off in a camper van for a weekend at, you guessed it, a remote cabin in the woods.

You have to give writer-director Drew Goddard full marks for effort.

MIA WASIKOWSKA brings a luminous quality to the supposedly plain heroine of Jane Eyre (12A), but that’s one of the few caveats worth mentioning in relation to Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel.

An extremely effective American screen version of the dark Swedish vampire book ‘Let the Right One In’ – which was originally made into a Swedish film – that succeeds because of the excellent playing of Smit-McPhee and Moretz and Reeves’ strict concentration on the original written material rather than making a mere re-make of the film.

How, you wonder, can a film starring Roberts and taking in Italy, India and Bali end up so uninteresting … looking good, certainly, but this is not, surely, supposed to be a travelogue but a romantic drama?

Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts lit up London at the gala premiere of her new film, 'Eat Pray Love'.

SECURITY has been tight with nearly 350 Indian policemen and security officers guarding Academy Award winner Julia Roberts in the small town of Pataudi, where Roberts is staying at a former palace converted into a heritage hotel.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ led the way at last night’s Academy Awards ceremony, winning eight awards including best director for Danny Boyle.

Sean Penn is stunned pal Benicio Del Toro hasn't been recognised for his portrayal of revolutionary Che Guevara in biopic 'Che'.

Kate Winslet was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role in 'The Reader' today, while feelgood film 'Slumdog Millionaire' is in the running for best movie.

Ferrell, who co-wrote the screenplay, has had an indifferent screen career, even though his reputation remains high in Hollywood. He’s an actor who always seems to deliver the goods without actually doing so.