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They don't get top billing. You know the face but can't quite place the name. Though they toil in the shadows of more famous leads, to imply that character actors merely 'support' is to vastly underrate the contributions of many remarkable entertainers: Often, it is the performance of lesser-knowns that leaps from screens large and small into the ...

The inaugural International Youth Arts Festival kicks off in Kingston on July 3 and the festival's showpiece production is Pendragon, at the Rose Theatre.

Originally published June 24, 2009 at 2:54 p.m., updated June 24, 2009 at 4:11 p.m. LOS ANGELES a ' So the best-picture race will be twice as crowded at next year's Academy Awards, with the ceremony's organizers announcing Wednesday that they're expanding the field of nominees from five to 10.

The York Public Library has announced "Sunday Night at the Movies," a series of 10 films to be shown on Sunday evenings throughout the summer.

The most awaited part 2 of Steven Soderbergh's "Che" is coming out today. Click on the movie icon on top of this box to watch all of this week's trailers.

Genre: Drama Directed by: Ramin Bahrani Starring: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo, Lane "Roc" Williams, Mamadou Lam Roger Ebert has called Winston-Salem's Ramin Bahrani "the new great American director," and after seeing his remarkable Goodbye, Solo , I'd at least consider the case.

"That's not true, because I went round to my mate's house the other day to watch a video," he replies.

Ang Lee: 'In comedy, if people don't laugh, you have failed. At least in drama you can say they didn't understand it' enlarge He is one of Taiwan's greatest film directors who has picked-up the highest honours in cinema over a glittering 20 year career.

A film festival that was founded on the highest of ideals is foundering in a sea of Hollywood hype and hucksterism Kevin Maher We're barely into its second week and the Cannes Film Festival has proven, yet again, and more than ever, what a joke it has become.

Stars line up to pay tribute to strikers as new movie seals UK film industry's love affair with working classes Sunday, 17 May 2009 When the women who led the strikers at the Dagenham Ford plant marched on Westminster in 1968 they carried a banner with the words "We want sexual equality". Unfortunately, it had not unfurled and read simply "We want ...

The 1968 women's strike by machinists at Ford's Dagenham car plant which paved the way for equal pay in Britain is to be immortalised on screen, with Sally Hawkins as a feisty factory girl and Miranda Richardson as the Labour minister, Barbara Castle.

The most encouraging thing about "Management," the indie romance starring Jennifer Aniston, is that she's still willing to do indie romances.

Tracy Ullman said she was "just thrilled" to be receiving a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Festival in LA.

May brings plenty of reasons to shed our wintry grouch mode. Last update: May 8, 2009 - 3:46 PM Rick Nelson and Claude Peck dispense unasked-for advice about clothing, etiquette, culture, relationships, grooming and more.

In his uneven directorial debut "The Merry Gentleman," Michael Keaton plays a distinctly unmerry Chicago hit man named Frank Logan who falls for a mousy receptionist, Kate Frazier , on the run from an abusive cop husband .

Jonathan Pryce and Sally Hawkins have been cast in period drama Hysteria . The film takes place in Victorian England and is about the invention of the first vibrator, according to Production Weekly .

Grumpy Red West, left, and exuberant Souleymane Sy Savane forge an unlikely bond in the spellbinding "Goodbye Solo." After I watched Souleymane Sy Syvane in "Goodbye Solo," I felt almost like I'd been chatting with a stranger in an airport, a stranger I wished I could spend more time with.

You could trust Sir Michael Caine to go into an old people's home in style - dragging a feature film crew behind him and, quite literally, working his magic.

THE great British writer and director Mike Leigh is known for being rather caustic and difficult in interviews, but in Mark Lawson Talks to Mike Leigh, he was perfectly engaging, voluble and candid.

Want to watch the latest movies, but youa TMre on a budget? The Augusta-Richmond County Public Library is showing free movies each Monday at 6:30 p.m. in April.