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Slackistan ban means the future looks tight in Pakistan

Huma Qureshi: The country's liberal youth are up in arms, and no wonder: their film board has just delivered a big blow to free speech
Peter Mullan's Neds join Bafta's list of Scots missed

Jane Graham: The Oscars snubbed Neds – small surprise there. But this is not the first time Bafta has turned its nose up at a Scottish film
Sam Raimi set to resurrect The Evil Dead for modern remake

News: Director of trailblazing lo-fi horror wants it back in cinemas and 'remade for a proper theatrical experience'
Life in a Day's blancmange offers sugar but little substance

Jeremy Kay at Sundance: Kevin Macdonald's experimental film, culled from 4,500 hours of thousands of people's YouTube footage, fatally lacks tension
- Kevin Smith marches on with loyal fans behind him

Tangled: '140,000 hairs with a mind of their own' - video

Video (6min 55sec), The team behind Disney's 50th film, a re-telling of the Rapunzel story, tell Michael Hann how the movie finally came together after 60 years in development
Insidious: It'll get under your skin

Stuart Heritage: The latest schlocker from the incontinent makers of Saw is set to hunt you down and bore you to death with its 40 sequels
The King's Speech re-edit could cut swearing

News: Harvey Weinstein plans more family-friendly version of Oscars frontrunner to open up film to wider US audience
- King's Speech leads Black Swan in dance to the tune of £2.7m
- US box office: Natalie Portman's very good week

Shane Meadows to make This Is England '88

25 Jan 2011: Feature-length drama follows acclaimed Channel 4 series, which won TV prize at South Bank Sky Arts awards today. By Jason Deans
The King's Speech enjoys a royal flush at Oscar nominations

25 Jan 2011: • The King's Speech leads pack with 12 Oscar nominations
• True Grit comes in second with 10 nods
• The Social Network and Inception tie for third place
• Mike Leigh and Banksy also score nominations
Oscar nominations 2011: the full list

25 Jan 2011: The full list of nominees in each category for the 83rd Academy awards
Censors delete Chinese cartoon that takes swipes at public scandals

25 Jan 2011: References to tainted milk and forced demolitions in South Park-style film of rabbit uprising
James Cameron's Avatar 2 and 3 to hit screens in December 2014 and 2015

25 Jan 2011: Director, who is currently working on two screenplays, says some of the profits from his sci-fi sequels will go to green causes
Robert Pattinson 'wants to play' Jeff Buckley

24 Jan 2011: Reports say Twilight star is keen to portray musician who died by drowning aged 30
Anthony Hopkins in talks to play Alfred Hitchcock

24 Jan 2011: Actor reportedly in negotiations to portray legendary director in big screen account of the making of Psycho
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Oscar nominations: king for now, but Colin Firth could run into a boulder

25 Jan 2011: Peter Bradshaw: After talk of Avatar changing the game, the Oscar nominations followed familiar lines. But there could be surprises yet
Don't hold the front page for A Year Inside the New York Times

25 Jan 2011: Damon Wise: Page One, Andrew Rossi's scattershot study of life at the 'Grey Lady', fails to break any colourful news at Sundance
Margin Call is a fine crash movie, but no banker

25 Jan 2011: Jeremy Kay: It boasts superb performances, but right now the 'normal' public may not want to go and see a film about the US financial crisis
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Kidnap revisited: how I met my former captor

26 Jan 2011:
Mark Henderson had been held captive in the Colombian jungle for three months. After his release, he'd managed to put his ordeal behind him when his former kidnapper contacted him. It led to an extraordinary journey
When celebrities offer drugs to other celebrities

23 Jan 2011: Cameron Diaz says she bought cannabis from Snoop Dogg at school, but who else has shared their stash with a fellow star?
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