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Richard Hoehler's new play is so sentimental and good-natured that its warmth often stifles what is otherwise a well-conceived show.

Two plays at the Irish Arts Center explore the life of Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist.

Film Reviews: Healthy fest life is assured, but a critical push will be needed for theatrical play.

Pitch-perfect and profoundly moving, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo), a quiet portrait of a reunion among three generations of a Japanese family, has a documentary's keen sense of the everyday. It also has the deeper resonance of great poetry.

At once noble and naive, earnest and a tad obnoxious, Colin Beavan's mission in the documentary No Impact Man is simple enough: to live for a year with his wife and toddler in their Manhattan apartment without making even the smallest dent in the environment. Buy food from farmers markets, ride a bike, use the stairs (nine flights) rather than the elevator. No TV, no toilet paper.

BBC 'trying to seem smaller without actually becoming smaller', says former Channel Five chief David ElsteinThe former Channel Five chief executive David Elstein has accused the BBC of 'inverse Sarkozy syndrome: trying to seem smaller without actually becoming smaller'.Elstein compared the BBC's recent suggestions that it could reduce the scale of its activities to the French president Nicolas Sarkozy's alleged attempts to make himself appear taller. But he warned that the corporation could make life harder for itself by opening a debate about its size.'In my view, inviting pollsters or politicians or pundits - let alone competitors - to determine the size of the BBC, and which services might be dispensed with, is a slippery slope,' Elstein said, delivering the Institute of Economic Affairs Beesley lecture in London today.'Is BBC3 really worth the £500m it has cost so far? Is the move to Salford really worth the reported £876m cost, still rising? Should Hollywood movies, or series, or

Paulington answers all of your questions in this life advice column for the true cinephile!

Shabby ice cream vans lead double lives as fighting alien robots in this toy-based movie.

BBC 'trying to seem smaller without actually becoming smaller', says former Channel Five chief David ElsteinThe former Channel Five chief executive David Elstein has accused the BBC of 'inverse Sarkozy syndrome: trying to seem smaller without actually becoming smaller'.Elstein compared the BBC's recent suggestions that it could reduce the scale of its activities to the French president Nicolas Sarkozy's alleged attempts to make himself appear taller. But he warned that the corporation could make life harder for itself by opening a debate about its size.'In my view, inviting pollsters or politicians or pundits - let alone competitors - to determine the size of the BBC, and which services might be dispensed with, is a slippery slope,' Elstein said, delivering the Institute of Economic Affairs Beesley lecture in London today.'Is BBC3 really worth the £500m it has cost so far? Is the move to Salford really worth the reported £876m cost, still rising? Should Hollywood movies, or series, or

BBC 'trying to seem smaller without actually becoming smaller', says former Channel Five chief David ElsteinThe former Channel Five chief executive David Elstein has accused the BBC of 'inverse Sarkozy syndrome: trying to seem smaller without actually becoming smaller'.Elstein compared the BBC's recent suggestions that it could reduce the scale of its activities to the French president Nicolas Sarkozy's alleged attempts to make himself appear taller. But he warned that the corporation could make life harder for itself by opening a debate about its size.'In my view, inviting pollsters or politicians or pundits - let alone competitors - to determine the size of the BBC, and which services might be dispensed with, is a slippery slope,' Elstein said, delivering the Institute of Economic Affairs Beesley lecture in London today.'Is BBC3 really worth the £500m it has cost so far? Is the move to Salford really worth the reported £876m cost, still rising? Should Hollywood movies, or series, or