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Mark Kermode
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Front Page: Endgame is fast-tracking scribe Phillips' spy thriller -- Phillip Noyce will direct spy thriller 'Wenceslas Square' for 'This American Life' producers Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp, and Endgame Entertainment's James D. Stern.

Front Page: War pic, romances vie for slice of the b.o. pie -- Four wide releases enter a crowded frame this weekend at the domestic B.O.

Take a look at this fourth and final DreamWorks Animation adventure.

The Vanity Fair post-Oscars party, hosted by its editor in chief, Graydon Carter, was held at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles. ...

Frederick Wiseman (whose new film, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, opens in the UK next month) is a "legend" of the documentary world. That much is official. The 80-year-old film-maker was presented ...

Right now, if you're a straight actor in Hollywood, it's great to be gay. we have a Bafta-winning, Oscar-nominated Colin Firth as the grief-stricken English professor in Tom Ford's sensual and sensitive ...

Bernard Rose and Danny Huston, back together for another updating of Tolstoy, haven't quite achieved the poisonous allure of their earlier Ivans xtc (2000). ...

The week's other Swedish movie is a disconcerting study in evasiveness. A man named Krister (Olle Sarri) wakes up on his bathroom floor covered in blood, and, willing himself not to investigate, goes ...

Seventy years after their first trip, film-goers are about to get several new opportunities to head off to see The Wizard. This time, they'll be watching through 3D glasses, the heroine may very well ...

Having laid the Oscar ghost with his win for The Departed, Martin Scorsese could have allowed himself to relax. ...

Bland beyond endurance. Based on a Japanese story of canine fidelity, this stars Richard Gere as a music professor (yeah, right) who picks up a stray dog on the way home from his railway commute. ...

Emmett Malloy's rockumentary follows Jack and Meg White, aka The White Stripes, on their 2007 tour of Canada, where they aim to play in every province. ...

This overlong but absorbing murder mystery, adapted from the first of a best-selling trilogy by the late journalist-turned-crime writer Stieg Larsson, dabbles in some pretty dark material. ...

Miller's determination to establish the truth takes him on a perilous go-round of Baghdad, beyond the US military's cordoned fiefdom – the Green Zone – and into territory where "the enemy" is ...

Greengrass, with his superkinetic camerawork and visceral sense of you-are-there immediacy, pieces together a compelling picture of a ground force trying (and failing) to order a city on the slide towards anarchy. The style has its drawbacks. In delivering what's essentially an action movie, the film's interest in nuance and ambiguity gets squashed underfoot by all the chasing and shouting and firing. I'd like to have seen more of Brendan Gleeson as the sceptical CIA spook liaising with Miller, not just for Gleeson's pudgily realistic presence but for a keener perspective on where the occupation started going wrong: was it just naivety and incompetence, or was there an actual conspiracy among the authorities to mislead? Amy Ryan is also underused as a US journalist who's been suborned for propaganda purposes, and Khalid Abdalla as Miller's informant-cum-translator becomes marginalised after a promising introduction.

The Hong Kong film industry has been talking about a return to the good old days and the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival is now joining in the chorus. ...

As the biggest opening 3D film to date, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland should maintain its hold on the US box office this coming weekend over competition. ...

Take a look at this high-powered ninja DVD before it hits the shelves.