Brad Pitt is currently in the news for reasons that you'll be aware of and have no bearing on the world of movies but he does have a new promo out for an upcoming film co-starring Marion Cotillard.

 

Here's what to watch on TV today.

For Back to the Future fans, October 21 is D-day. It’s the exact date in the future when Marty McFly and Doc Brown flew from the ’80s in a modified DeLorean. What, asks Mark Evans, makes the move as watchable today as when it was released?

Set in pre-WWI London, Suffragette (12A) is a stirring account of the campaign for women’s voting rights which was led by Emmeline Pankhurst (a very brief cameo from Meryl Streep).

Joseph Gordon- Levitt worked closely with the original Twin Towers tightrope walker to recreate

Musical leads faithful back to the future

Top 10 Fantasy Films

Denzel Washington stars as commercial pilot Whip Whitaker in Flight (15A), which opens with a vividly depicted airplane crash.

Hollywood star Denzel Washington said his Oscar nomination was a “thrill” as he premiered his new film 'Flight'.

Robert Zemeckis is a blockbuster director at heart. Action has never been an issue for the man behind ‘Back to the Future’.

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Spruced up, re-mastered and returned for our entertainment this now-classic story of time travel – aided by a Belfast-built DeLorean car – still delights, even if more sophisticated special F/X have swamped our screens.

The 67-year-old actor Bob Hoskins - who is currently starring in British movie 'Made in Dagenham', based on the true life story of women in the 1960s striking for equal pay at a car factory - admits he is constantly thinking about retiring from his profession but keeps finding new work.

Dickens’ classic morality story has been brought to the screen so many times that the redemption of old miser Scrooge is well known to us, and difficult to present in a new and engaging way.

A star line-up of voices is just one highlight of this outstanding telling of the centuries old legend of the battle to save Denmark from the evil Grendel … told in brilliant animation.

Jim Carrey's fans are in for a festive treat - he is to star in a new animated adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol'.

FILM-GOERS are in for a summer to remember with nine Hollywood blockbusters queuing up to pack out cinemas this year.

Hollywood's hottest new mum, Angelina Jolie, will co-star as a tiger in the upcoming kids' film "Kung Fu Panda" in her first movie deal since going to Africa to give birth.

Whoopi Goldberg is giving Hollywood's Universal Studios theme park a boost by starring in a new welcome video for tourists.

Angelina Jolie is to star alongside British actor Ray Winstone in a new Hollywood adaptation of Beowulf, the Old English epic poem.

Tom Hanks is to star in a new film from the Coen Brothers.

Oscar-winner Tom Hanks today said he fears Hollywood’s stars will be replaced by computer-generated actors.