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The decade closes with a flashback to the medium's once-vaunted universal appeal, although The Hurt Locker 's impressive consensus popularity comes more from critics than audiences.

Sam Taylor-Wood tackles the troubled teenage years of lairy, mouthy John Lennon in her debut.

The Toronto Film Critics Association have released their list of the best films and performances of 2009, including several ties: BEST PICTURE "Hunger" "Inglourious Basterds" BEST PERFORMANCE, MALE Nicolas Cage, "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" BEST PERFORMANCE, FEMALE Carey Mulligan, "An Education" BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE, MALE ...

Hunger , about the 1981 IRA hunger strike and Bobby Sands , also won the best first feature award.

A Nazi-hunting revenge fantasy and an account of an Irish prison hunger strike are co-winners of the Toronto Film Critics Association's best picture award.

Irish republican Bobby Sands slowly ends his life through a hunger strike at Maze prison in 1980s Northern Ireland in British director Steve McQueen's Hunger, which nabbed a best picture and best first feature prize from Toronto critics.

After taking down the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Picture, The Hurt Locker locked another big regional critics society, The New York Film Critics Circle, when it was once again awarded as this year's best film.

As the world's diplomats duel over her destiny, Aminatou Haidar, on the 29th day of her hunger strike, could be hours from death Anyone who has seen Hunger , Steve McQueen's harrowing film about the Maze prison hunger strike, will have some idea of just how horrific it is to die by starvation.

I'm still not certain whether last year's Hunger was so remarkable because of the direction from artist Steve McQueen, or simply because McQueen occasionally got out of the way and let Michael Fassbender's magnetic performance take over.

When Focus Features announced in January the intent to make a biopic based on the life of Nigerian band leader and activist Fela Kuti , I was immediately intrigued.

According to Variety, Focus Features has set Steve McQueen to direct "Fela," a feature film based on the life of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti - the subject of the recently opened Broadway musical "Fela!" A But this version is not - I repeat - is NOT a film version of the Broadway show which I just saw and loved.

Spoiler Alert: This review contains major plot information. Read it after you see the movie.

I used to be thrilled by the cinema, but now it is the raw, physical and even subversive films made by artists that move me Deeply moving films a artist Tacita Dean.

BEIRUT: Jacques Audiard's "Un Prophete" emerges out of darkness. A young man is being arrested for some anonymous crime.

Hogg and Simon Farnaby talk about their experiences of working on the surreal road-trip comedy Bunny & The Bull , coping with male nudity and staring down bulls.

After the success of Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Wood, the UK Film Council aims to fund debuts by a new crop of artists turned film-makers Sunday, 22 November 2009 First came Turner prize-winner Steve McQueen's gritty film Hunger, about the IRA prisoner Bobby Sands.

According to Variety , it looks as ifthings are moving on with Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre : Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are in talks to play Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester .

British filmmaker Andrea Arnold's work history may be brief but the enthusiastic acclaim for her movies is impressive.

This edition - a standard-def twin of this fall's amazing Blu-ray Disc - will arrive with an anamorphic widescreen transfer, a Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix, featurettes, and the film's original trailer.

From the documentary "Tattooed Under Fire," Medic Anthony Trick gets tattooed before his deployment to Iraq from Fort Hood.