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Ruth Wilson is still at that stage in her career where you look at her, in this case across a crowded bar at the Young Vic in London, and think two words: Jane Eyre.

Jim Sheridan has directed seven actors into Oscar nominations: Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou for "In America"'; Richard Harris for "The Field"; Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite and Daniel Day-Lewis for "In the Name of the Father"; and Day-Lewis again, with Brenda Fricker, who both won Oscars for "My Left Foot." BROTHERS WRITTEN BY David ...

Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman tastefully face the distasteful. Jim Sheridan sure is good at getting performances from little girls.

How likely is it that love, not to mention hot sex, can blossom between two people who've picked identical careers dedicated to punishing the rest of us? Writer/director Cecilia Miniucchi ponders all sort of related potentials - and impossibilities - in her delightfully dysfunctional offbeat romantic comedy, Expired.

Samantha Morton in T's Anglomaniacs issue . In " The Messenger ," out today, Samantha Morton plays an American woman whose husband is killed while fighting in Iraq.

Expired is a truly unfortunate film for all involved. Here is a movie that offers an intriguing perspective on a taboo subject and features great actors in the central roles, yet is delivered with such a jaw-dropping lack of basic competence that its ideas are suffocated and the actors are left to blindly search for plausible action.

O.K., any nation that indulges in the pastime of tea trolley dancing qualifies as eccentric.

Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday , where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema.

Senior citizens having sex, a rock star deciding to kill himself, a clueless Italian bungling his way through a Christmas vacation -- these are the plot lines of top local hits in key European territories.

Three hard-edged movies about young women screening this week at the Toronto film festival depart from Hollywood formulas by avoiding sentimental or romantic cliches that often define movies about teenagers.

Emily Blunt ends TIFF with a flourish as Young Victoria. Many of the A-list talents have abandoned the city, leaving behind messy hotel rooms and dozens of juicy sound bites, not to mention some gorgeous photos.

Nieves , a Swiss-based indie publisher, recently released "Mister Lonely," the third script from film director, producer, screenwriter and author, Harmony Korine.

Social workers are the nation's unsung heroes whose successes can "save and transform lives". That is the message of Children's Secretary Ed Balls, who has launched a 58million recruitment drive to persuade 5,000 people to take up the vocational work, which has been badly affected by the Baby P scandal.

Caption: Samantha Morton Synecdoche New York - VIP Screening held at the Curzon Cinema Soho London, England .... British actress SAMANTHA MORTON and dance DJ-turned-actor GOLDIE have thrown their support behind a new drive to recruit more social workers.

Samantha Morton spoke of her experience in care as a child at the campaign launch.

* Dominic West, who played Baltimore cop Jimmy McNulty on five seasons of "The Wire," will play Sab Than, the Martian prince who in the books tried to force the fabulous red Martian princess Dejah Thoris to marry him.

With its explicit sex and scene of female genital mutilation, Lars von Trier's Antichrist scandalised Cannes this year.

Oscilloscope is hearing the message. The upstart film distributor headed by Adam Yauch, of the Beastie Boys, has picked up North American rights to Oren Moverman's directorial debut, "The Messenger," which premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

At 7 p.m. Friday, July 3, the Belfast Free Library is offering a special Independence Weekend movie, as part of its Friday Night Flix series.

Here's " Minority Report " star Samantha Morton , just 32, out in London on Thursday -- and one of the polygamist female members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas .