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Viggo Mortensen channels the spirit of Sigmund Freud, Southwark says no to Brit grit, and let's hear it (again) for UndefeatedViggo's Freudian slip One of the strangest interviews I've ever conducted happened last week when I met Viggo Mortensen in Sig...
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island – review
This new Jules Verne adventure yarn is a sequel to the ingenuous but surprisingly popular 3D version of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The morose Josh Hutcherson, the only survivor from the earlier film, receives a coded message from...
Vincent Cassel: ‘You can’t escape from what you are’
The actor, trained ballet dancer, and husband of Monica Bellucci is a man of hidden depths. In his latest role, he plays an anarchic disciple of Sigmund Freud. So, asks Elizabeth Day, did he get to the bottom of why he's drawn to the dark side?Vincent ...
Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean
He had the world at his paws, and earned $1,000 a weekThe creature at the centre of this remarkable book is an enigma. We never really know what he is thinking, and in fact he may not think at all, in the ratiocinatory sense. Susan Orlean presents to u...
Bridget Jones’s Baby due date pushed back
Working Title still expected to deliver third instalment in series despite concerns over the scriptThe third instalment in the Bridget Jones series, Bridget Jones's Baby, has run into script problems resulting in a delay to the start of production, acc...
Haunting stories
As the film company Hammer – famous as a purveyor of horror movies – moves into publishing, we hear from its boss Simon Oakes about the thinking behind the new venture, which has just produced its first literary title, The Greatcoat, Helen Dunmore....
Anatomy of a picture: The Great Gatsby
The true star of Baz Luhrmann's 3D film could well be DiCaprio's hair. But what else does this still tell us?1) Stereoscopic hairBaz Luhrmann may have had the novel's kinetic climax in mind when he decided to film The Great Gatsby in 3D, but the star o...
Sex fixer to the stars lifts lid on scandal in Hollywood’s golden age
Scotty Bowers has kept quiet for 60 years but now, at 88, he's talking about bedding the biggest screen icons of the daySpencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn had just one thing in common – apart from being movie superstars.But that one thing wasn't the...
The Reader author sues the Weinstein Company over film payments
Bernhard Schlink, whose 1995 novel was turned into a film starring Kate Winslet, claims he has not received a penny from the studioThe Reader was one of the critical smashes of 2008, broke the $100m mark at the global box office and had an awards seaso...
The Reader author sues the Weinstein Company over film payments
Bernhard Schlink, whose 1995 novel was turned into a film starring Kate Winslet, claims he has not received a penny from the studioThe Reader was one of the critical smashes of 2008, broke the $100m mark at the global box office and had an awards seaso...
Matthew Vaughn to direct sequel to X-Men: First Class
Studio rehires director for follow-up to X-Men: First Class, with Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy also returningMatthew Vaughn has been hired to direct the sequel to his own superhero reboot X-Men: First Class, reports Deadline.Though little defini...
Great Scott! Fitzgerald is enjoying a third act