Tale of former Tamil Tiger takes top award at 68th Cannes film festival.
Hugh Jackman finally gets a movie to sink his claws into. In "Prisoners", he plays Keller Dover, the archetypal patriarch.
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If the technology in <i>Source Code</i> is anything to go by, you, too, could be possessed by Jake Gyllenhaal in the near future.
AMERICAN MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <em>Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time</em>, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
It was one small step for man, but could be one giant leap in the career of an actor. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, is to be the subject of a Hollywood biopic. The only question now is: Who is worthy of filling the space boots of the 20th-century icon who ”came in peace for all mankind”?
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/ 9 February 2008
Family and friends of actor Heath Ledger bade farewell at a private service in his Australian home town of Perth on Saturday, with the media kept away and Ledger’s father appealing for mourners to be allowed to grieve in peace. Ledger (28) died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in his New York apartment on January 22.
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/ 22 January 2008
Heath Ledger, the Australian actor nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for his depiction of a brooding gay cowboy, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday. He was 28. He was discovered in his bedroom in the apartment in the SoHo neighbourhood of Manhattan at 3.30pm by a housekeeper and a masseuse.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: David Fincher returns to the serial-killer idea with Zodiac, which opens this week, writes Shaun de Waal