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Humble beginnings for something Precious - interview with Mariah Carey and Mo'Nique

The latest film from US director Lee Daniels has got everyone talking. The cast - including Mariah Carey and Mo'Nique - talk about how Precious has changed their lives.Read

Cinemas - Film of the Week, 21/1/10 - The Boys are Back

A widower struggles to raise his young son in the aftermath of terminal illness in Scott Hicks’s moving drama, based on the memoir of Simon Carr.Read

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NINJA ASSASSIN (18)Read

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ALL ABOUT STEVE (12A)Read

Television: Amanda Holden's fantasy lives

She's a judge on Britain's Got Talent and now Amanda Holden is preparing to be judged herself. In Amanda Holden's Fantasy Lives, which starts on ITV1 on Tuesday 26 January, she takes on challenges such as being a stunt woman, a country and western star, and a showgirl. She reveals why she loved being a daredevil and how she lived to tell the tale.Read

Celebrity interview: Girls put the pressure on Clive Owen

Clive Owen's latest role is a departure from his bad boy parts. The Coventry-born actor becomes a dad on the big screen in The Boys Are Back, released on Friday January 22. He talks about how his own real-life experiences of fatherhood helped him prepare for the part, and why he's under pressure to be in more family-friendly films.Read

Cinemas - Film of the Week, 14/1/10: Up in the Air, starring George Clooney

Unemployment is no laughing matter… although Up In The Air begs to differ.Read

Cinemas - Also Released - 14/1/10

ALL ABOUT STEVE (12ARead

Cinemas - Still showing - 14/1/10

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL (U)Read

Cinemas - Film of the Week - 14/1/10

UP IN THE AIR (15)Read

Cinemas - Still showing - 14/1/10

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Film: Meryl Streep for best actress? It's Complicated...

Most romantic comedies follow a basic plot of boy meets girl, but the title of Nancy Meyers' latest film suggests there's a lot more to relationships than that.Read

Cinemas - Still showing - 7/1/10

THE ROAD (15)Read

Cinemas - Also Released - 7/1/10

IT'S COMPLICATED (15)Read

Cinemas - Film of the Week - 7/01/10

The future isn’t bright, not in the slightest, in John Hillcoat’s Oscar-tipped, post-apocalyptic thriller, adapted by Joe Penhall from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men.Read

Paterson Joseph: Double life of a survivor

For most actors, a day on the set of a post-apocalyptic drama would be tiring enough.Read

Ian Hislop: Laughing through the gloom

Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye and team captain on Have I Got News For You?, looks back at the best - and the worst - stories of the year and predicts who's likely to make the pages of the satirical magazine in the New Year, as the Private Eye Annual 2009 is published.Read

Quotes of the year - 2009

A round-up of the celebrity quotes of the year including Kate Winslet, Daniel Craig and Victoria Beckham.Read

Reviewed: Nowhere Boy (15)

A BIOPIC of the early days of bespectacled Beatle John Lennon by celebrated conceptual artist Sam Taylor-Wood in this valentine to Lennon’s formative years, based on the memoirs of his half-sister Julia Baird.Read

Reviewed: NINE (12A)

WITH a mantelpiece full of plaudits for his direction of the film version of Chicago, Rob Marshall plies more razzle dazzle with a colourful and energetic adaptation of the award-winning Broadway musical Nine.Read

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