In the Name of the Father News

Poster for Brothers to be released on December 4, 2009 . According to pop-culture pundit Pete Hammond, Jim Sheridan, the director of the movie Brothers which is due in theaters December 4, 2009: ...received a tremendous ovation Sunday afternoon when he was introduced for a Q&A after a very well-received Directors Guild of America screening.

With Lionsgate understandably basking in the glow of this weekend's $1.8-million, $100,000-per-screen, record-shattering opening of "Precious," the already stratospheric Oscar buzz is likely to soar even higher.

In a small, snowy Pennsylvania town, a young man comforts his older brother's wife and their children after her husband goes missing in Afghanistan.

Denys Hawthorne, who has died aged 77, became an actor almost in spite of himself.

Hollywood star Daniel Day-Lewis is to receive an honour from the British Independent Film Awards.

Caption: EWAN MCGREGOR at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Canada .... Scottish actor EWAN MCGREGOR set fire to his Equity union card after watching DANIEL DAY-LEWIS in IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER - because he realised he'd never be as good as the Irishman.

I saw an interesting documentary/drama a few weeks ago called The Age of Stupid .

YOU DON'T EXPECT political even-handedness from Jim Sheridan. In the Name of the Father and Some Mother's Son were rousing, gloves-off polemics against the British establishment.

December's roster of movies is probably the one I'm most anticipating. Read on to find out why.

Daniel Craig has committed to star in the psychological thriller "Dream House," marking Morgan Creek's first movie under the reign of Rick Nicita and its first production start in three years.

Pete Postlethwaite in character as the last man on earth in the doomsday eco-film The Age of Stupid .

In "Shrink," a film opening today about a group of variously down-and-out people in Los Angeles, Saffron Burrows plays a big-name actress who finds that roles are drying up as she heads past her prime.

Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has declared that the "rage" prevalent in Scotland drives many of the country's leading talents away to pursue fame and fortune elsewhere.

This is aiming for one of those five extra Best Picture nomination spots. I can already tell.

There's a reason we haven't seen or heard from the new James Bond since he starred in Quantum of Solace and then Defiance back-to-back - he's picking his next few roles wisely.

Father's Day seems like a good time to rent a movie about fathers and watch it with your old dad.

DON Baker is one of Irish musica s legends, a skillful singer/songwriter with a hugely impressive catalogue of work.

HEBDEN Bridge Picture House and the Hebden Bridge Transition group are presenting the extraordinary docu-drama 'Age of Stupid' as part of the Big Green Weekend May 23-25. "The Age of Stupid", is an new climate change film starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055 as he looks back asks: why ...

There is an extremely important article by Gareth Peirce in the London Review of Books .

Cinema loves a miscarriage of justice story. Nothing better distils the archetypal figure of the conflicted protagonist, buffeted by events outside their control.