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Sixteen years after the cancelation of the TV show Galaxy Quest , the ensemble cast ekes out a living signing autographs at fan conventions and making appearances at store openings.

It's a few weeks before Christmas, and love is in the air in England for the ensemble cast that includes Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Laura Linney, and Kiera Knightley.

"Love Actually" is a little known British romantic comedy. This is about as good as it gets for modern romantic films.

This is for the girls who found themselves lusting after the grown-up men in the Harry Potter Series.

The Mail on Sunday is to be the exclusive distribution channel for the feature film Nobel Son, in what is thought to be a first for a UK newspaper.

Lest we forget that women in England can be knighted, or made a dame as the case may be, I have prepared my list of nominations for actresses from Harry Potter for her majesty's perusal when next she awards the OBEs.

I have a bone to pick with Queen Elizabeth II. With grimy musicians like Mick Jagger getting MBE and OBE Awards isn't it time was gave out a few for services to drama.

You can relive a space classic in high definition this November. Galaxy Quest will be released in Blu-ray on November 17.

Film star Alan Rickman is in Edinburgh to support Scotland's Year of Homecoming.

M ONONUCLEOSIS protectionus! Such is the spell the students of Hogwarts need in this sixth go-round of the Harry Potter franchise, as an epidemic of snoggery leaves the student body with bruised feelings and chapped lips.

Who does not know of Harry Potter, or of his debut, this week, on the big screen? Anthropologists returning from the Amazon Basin have whispered excitedly of tiny, pre-industrial clans, clustered along minor tributaries, who have never heard of Harry or of his creator, J. K. Rowling, but I think we can dismiss such rumors as patronizing fantasy.

From left, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Jim Broadbent and Daniel Radcliffe star in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.' Not to sound like a Muggle, but in a time of 'Transformers' and 'Twilight,' does Harry Potter still matter? Is Daniel Radcliffe destined to play second fiddle to Shia LaBeouf or Robert Pattinson as box-office ...

Michael Gambon has played Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore for five years, but he hasn't been setting a good example for his students when it comes to finishing their homework: The beloved old wizard hasn't cracked a single one of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" novels.

Harry Potter has kept his fans waiting for two years, the longest school break they have had to endure for a new movie adventure about the teen wizard.

People always wonder why I love to watch movies; it's because I get so many quotes that make sense to my actual life.

In this 2007 film from director Randall Miller , acclaimed actor Alan Rickman gives a bravura performance as a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who also happens to be a completely insufferable ass.

The lot including a long green military coat with brass buttons, leather belt and gun holsters fetched 3,120 Outfits from the 1996 biopic of Irish republican legend Michael Collins have gone under the hammer in London.

"Rats live on no evil star." Alan Rickman is an actor I likea lot, and that's only because of his role in Die Hard .

Posted by Michael H. Kleinschrodt, DVD columnist, The Times-Picayune June 14, 2009 12:00PM A high-powered cast headlined by Alan Rickman might lead viewers to expect great things from director Randall Miller's 'Nobel Son,' now on DVD.

Video Event of the Week: Is it Warner Home Video's 40th anniversary director's cut of Woodstock , featuring eight gazillion hippies and an hour's worth of previously unseen performances ? Could Paramount's new Blu-ray version of Glenn Close boiling Michael Douglas ' bunny in Fatal Attraction possibly make the cut? Or against all the odds, might ...