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The Goldfinger review labyrinthine Hong Kong financial crime thriller

The co-writer of the film that inspired Scorseses The Departed returns with a brash, big-budget movie based on a real-life criminal conspiracy Writer-director Felix Chong, co-writer of the Hong Kong crime picture Infernal Affairs (remade by Martin Scorsese as The Departed), reunites with the stars of that picture, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau, for

The Guardian view on goth: not just for Halloween | Editorial

A series of weighty new studies points to a revival of interest in a saturnine subculture. It may be a sign of the times Anyone out in Britains city centres over the weekend will have noted a copious amount of black eyeliner and dark lipstick on some deathly-pale young faces. The association of Halloween with

Dark Noon review extraordinary outsider vision of American history

Pleasance @ EICC, EdinburghSouth African actors replay the brutal events of the USs formation as a catalogue of poverty, struggle, violence and pain We know the story. We have heard it told countless times. One of the USs great skills is in self-mythologising. Time and again, it has told the world about the first European

Jodie Foster marries partner | Jodie Foster

The Oscar-winning actor and director Jodie Foster has married her girlfriend, Alexandra Hedison, at an undisclosed location, according to her publicist. Foster, who came out at last year's Golden Globes, was previously involved with Cydney Bernard, with whom she has two sons. Their 20-year relationship ended in 2008.

Mystery solved after strange lights spotted over California night sky | California

Astronomer says unusual sighting 99.9% certain to be due to burning space debris from International Space Station Weeks after a balloon, an octagonal structure and other flying objects put Americans on edge, the US is dealing with another mysterious phenomenon in the sky.