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Film Reviews: Secrets and guilty memories simmer without coming to the required boil in Aussie mood piece 'Closed for Winter.'

The veteran actor's role as a dying man in his new film proved too upsetting and shocking for his family, reports Vanessa ThorpeThe cockney voice is unmistakable, but the words are faltering and uncertain. This is Michael Caine as audiences have never seen him - and as his wife hopes never to see him again.The actor's role in the new British film Is Anybody There? shows his character, a retired magician, crumbling into the final stages of a long life. As a result Shakira Caine, his wife of 36 years, found the film so unsettling that she has banned their pregnant daughter, Natasha, from seeing it.'She didn't like it one little bit,' said Caine, who supports his wife's decision. At an athletic 76, the actor plays the part of the frail, 85-year-old Clarence in director John Crowley's film, set in an old people's home in an English seaside town in the 1980s.'Shakira explained how she felt to me the other day. I said to her, 'But you have seen me die in lots of movies'. 'No,' she said, 'I h

The finest Othello in a generation, a scene-stealing villain in Ridley Scott's American Gangster and now a brilliant portrayal of Thabo Mbeki - no wonder Chiwetel Ejiofor has the acting world at his mercy. Here, the south Londoner talks to Gaby Wood about his African roots and the end of apartheidChiwetel Ejiofor has spent the week in Long Island, pretending to be a counter-intelligence agent and chasing after Angelina Jolie. 'She is very beautiful,' he shrugs, 'but you know, you get used to it.' Last night, a Friday, he was out late with another of his co-stars, Liev Schreiber. So when I meet him in a new york café at one o'clock, he orders a delicate fruit salad and swears he's only just had breakfast.The film Ejiofor is shooting is Salt, Philip Noyce's CIA conspiracy tale. His previous performances in thrillers Inside Man and American Gangster were so enviable they led Denzel Washington, who was also in both, to joke that he'd like to have him assassinated. And while Ejiofor

Film Reviews: Beginning promisingly enough, 'Handsome' soon turns monotonously angst-ridden, with all humor and personality falling by the wayside.

Film Reviews: The pic charts the many career highlights for a duo that composed indelible ditties for 'Mary Poppins,' others.

Film Reviews: Should male infants be circumcised? Expectant mother and filmmaker Danae Elon must decide.

The 'Predator' sci-fi movie franchise is heading back to its roots - by rebooting the original Arnold Schwarzenegger film.

Sonam Kapoor established herself as an actress and Anil Kapoora s second daughter Rhea is preparing to enter Bollywood but she will be producing films.

Film Reviews: 'Mutant Chronicles' should have been left as the role-playing board game with which it originated.

Sonu Sood plays the role of a man who is disfigured after an accident and his multi face look in the movie a oeCity Of Lifea has been done by the makeup artist, who did make up of Brad Pitt in Benjamin Button.