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Film Reviews: It's some feat to make a full-on melodrama about drag queens with murderous children and junkie lovers tedious.

A man pleads guilty to attacking a Coronation Street actor while he was on a night out in his home town of Scarborough.

'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian' has been released and the results are a bit above average. Ben Stiller and Amy Adams are likable enough; but the script never really equates to adult comedy. Still, a worthy family treat.

A re-imagining of the 1988 classic for the NES, 'Bionic Commando' was supposed to be a fast paced third person shooter. What it wound up being is a painfully awkward pile of failure.

History comes to comical life in this sequel that surprisingly exceeds expectations.

CONTROVERSIAL singer Lady Gaga is adamant about the one asset she looks for in a man and says a guy has no chance if he doesn't 'measure up.'

A man accused of murder in the shooting death of Dolla at a Los Angeles mall has pleaded not guilty.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, featuring Heath Ledger's poignant final bow, is just too madly self-indulgentHeath Ledger takes a poignant final bow in Terry Gilliam's loopy, sweet-natured but madly self-indulgent fantasia The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, showing here at the Cannes film festival out of competition. Halfway through shooting, Ledger had made a desperately sad early exit, so the director ingeniously re-invented his character as a series of personae. Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp gamely stepped into the breach.The Dr Parnassus of the title is played by Christopher Plummer, an ageing swami-showman who rattles around in his 'imaginarium', a kind of Gypsy-wagon-cum-mobile-fairground theatre, with his fellow players: dyspeptic Percy, played by Verne Troyer, his daughter Valentina (Lily Cole) and leading man Anton (Andrew Garfield) who's obviously deeply in love with Valentina. When members of the audience are invited up on to the stage, they slip back throu

Dizzee Rascal would rather get people dancing than be a role model. The 'Bonkers' rapper doesn't mind being regarded as an influential person to young people, but would prefer to make an impact on their social lives.

When a woman dates a much older man, bystanders often speculate that she has only the most superficial of motives.