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Tom Cruise feels the Pain as Mark Wahlberg gains top spot
Pain & Gain triumphed in a fairly limp session at the North American box office thanks to an estimated $20m debut that knocked the Tom Cruise sci-fi Oblivion off its perch. The box office session dropped around 19% against last week and fell by roughly the same margin compared with the same weekend in 2012, when Screen Gems' Think Like a Man stayed top for the second weekend in a session that showed greater strength in depth.
Curious Incident counts out seven Olivier awards
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time dominated the UK's most prestigious theatre awards on Sunday night, equalling the record by picking up seven Oliviers, including best actor for its star, Luke Treadaway. The 28-year-old, who gives an astonishing performance as 15-year-old maths genius Christopher Boone, beat off heavyweight competition in the shape of Rupert Everett, James McAvoy, Mark Rylance and Rafe Spall to pick up the prize at the Royal Opera House ceremony.
Michael Jackson trial pits family against concert organiser AEG Live
The life and death of Michael Jackson will be played out once again in a Los Angeles court on Monday as a jury hears opening statements in the wrongful death suit brought by Jackson's family against concert organiser AEG Live.
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George Jones Dies Aged 81: King of Honky-Tonk
George Jones, who has died aged 81, was country music's most stylish and emotional singer.
Beyoncé - Review
Openings to concerts come no more bombastic than that of Beyoncé's Mrs Carter tour.
Iron Man 3 International Cut Angers Chinese Bloggers
It was billed as a joint venture between two cinematic superpowers, a collaboration between east and west. But the comic-book blockbuster Iron Man 3 has now been split into two distinct entities.
The Look of Love – Review
Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love is a breezily affectionate if faintly incurious study of Paul Raymond: the Soho nudie-show entrepreneur and property baron who became Britain's richest man.
Scarecrow – review
If Vladimir and Estragon decided they'd got bored waiting, and just took off down the road for some adventures, the result might look like this. Jerry Shatzberg's Scarecrow, from 1973, is a stunningly made movie, now restored and re-released, with Gene Hackman and Al Pacino giving the performances of their lives as two drifters who team up in the hope of setting up a carwash business in Pittsburgh. In his Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind said Scarecrow was part of a body of 1970s work which was of "secondary" significance. That judgment looks way off. Scarecrow is simply a masterpiece of the American new wave, a rangy, freewheeling tragicomedyin which Hackman and Pacino give effortlessly charismatic performances. Max (Hackman) has just been released from prison; he's itching to start the business he's been dreaming about in the joint – and all too obviously itching to get into another of the fights that put him in prison in the first place. Francis (Pacino) has been away at sea, sending money home to the mother of his child and now, muddled and penitent, he yearns to visit them. It's a wonderfully muted performance from Pacino: Dustin Hoffman would have cranked it up far higher. The guys ride the boxcars; they get drunk and laid and into trouble. They even wind up in prison – briefly. And their chaotic, fragile friendship is all that they have. This is a jewel of American cinema.
White Elephant – review
The Argentinian film-maker Pablo Trapero has always brought muscular confidence and flair to his work, and White Elephant is no exception, a movie about faith and hope to which the new papal election has given an arrowhead of relevance. It is set in the Villa Virgin barrio, the toughest shantytown in Buenos Aires, a grim place dominated surreally by the gigantic ruined TB hospital built in the 1930s; now a deserted wreck and cathedral of poverty known as the "white elephant" where the homeless camp and drug-dealers ply their trade. (It looks, to me, creepily like the Ceaușescu presidential palace in Bucharest.) Two priests work tirelessly to help the people there: Father Julián (Ricardo Darin) and his new younger Belgian colleague, Father Nicolás (Jérémie Renier), who believes in actively mediating drug wars. Julián thinks this will only contaminate and compromise their priesthood, and is listening to his superiors who are asking him to promote the cult of Father Carlos Mujica, the local Marxist priest who was (in real life) killed there in 1974. And meanwhile, Nicolás is beginning to fall in love with social worker Luciana (Martina Gusmán). For me, the focus of the film is too diffuse: is the implied spiritual dimension of the story merely a symptom of poverty? Or does it have an authenticity that transcends everything? And does the division between Nicolás and Julián imply an urgent moral choice? Or are they just two approaches undertaken in equally valid good faith? A flawed drama, but one with emotional power.
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