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Two fine performances by two veteran actors make up this quietly touching and powerful drama that serves as a wonderful showcase for the talents of Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyate.

It's cocktails at dawn - " well 7.45pm - " as petty rivalries escalate over pineapple and cheese on a stick.

Head and Lesley Manville will star in David Grindleya TMs revival of John Guarea TMs Six Degrees of Separation , which runs at the Old Vic from January 19 to April 3, 2010.

WINNING actor Jim Broadbent and fellow Hollywood star Imelda Staunton are due to start filming a new movie in Derby.

Abigail's Party: so, who fancies another cheesy-pineapple one? Abigail's Party is still going on, 32 years after it was first shown on BBC's Play for Today.

There may be early Oscar buzz surrounding Brenda Blethyn's latest role, but the British actress is having none of it.

Paul Smith; Mike Leigh; Rene Fleming; Tony Bennett; Michael Palin. Not the line-up for the next celebrity reality show : they might seem a disparate bunch, but these five individuals have each had an indelible impact on our culture, art and collective consciousness.

Mike Leigh has buried the caricatures and obsessive bleakness to make a sentimental, human melodrama.

The Observer Film Quarterly polled more than 60 cinema experts - directors, screenwriters, actors, critics, and a few smart "outsiders" to name their top 10 British films released in the last 25 years .

Brenda Blethyn to be detective inspector in ITV adaptation of Ann Cleeves's Hidden Depths, set in Northumberland Brenda Blethyn is to star in a new ITV murder mystery based on the novel Hidden Depths by crime writer Ann Cleeves.

By Susan King Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" is generating a lot of Oscar buzz this year, including lots of attention paid to star Sally Hawkins, who plays the ever-optimistic school teacher, Poppy.

When Timothy Spall and I meet, neither of us is in terrific shape: I've just that second finished watching Gunrush , his new TV drama, and feel drained, my heart still beating wildly after its terrifying denouement.

WHO ate all the pies? Harry Potter actor Timothy Spall by the look of him. The 52-year-old Londoner was spotted filming the ITV comedy drama The Fattest Man in Britain yesterday in Manchester.

WHO ate all the pies? Harry Potter actor Timothy Spall by the look of him. The 52-year-old Londoner was spotted filming the ITV comedy drama The Fattest Man in Britain yesterday in Manchester.

In Happy-Go-Lucky, Sally Hawkins plays Polly, a 30 year-old primary school teacher with eccentric dress sense and a relentless enthusiasm for life.

Excellence can often be found in brevity. That is one of the reasons why the Palm Springs International ShortFest, which begins Tuesday and ends June 29, is such a must-see event.

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.

Demi Moore, Courteney Cox-Arquette and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are some of the stars making their directorial debuts at the 15th annual Palm Springs International ShortFest June 23-29 at the Camelot Theatres, it was announced Tuesday.

Ms. Sunshine meets Mr. Misery. Photograph by: Maple, National Post The happiest people in the world, according to one theory, barely know they're happy.

Brenda Blethyn gave Edna O'Brien a lift one day - and got a ghostly role in her new play in return.