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  • Whoopi Goldberg medical marijuana

    Whoopi Goldberg launches line of pot products for women with period pain

    Under Whoopi & Maya partnership, The View cohost offers marijuana-infused products to reduce and relieve pain and cramps during menstruation
  • The Yellow Sea

    Why South Korea's action movies blow Hollywood out of the Yellow Sea

    Danny Leigh: Na Hong-jin's compelling new crime thriller could teach Arnie and co about making fast films that pack a realistic punch

  • The White Ribbon

    For crying out loud, please love thy neighbour in the cinema

    Danny Leigh: Cinemagoers have grown to hate each other, but there's nothing quite like the shared experience of laughing, sobbing or throwing popcorn at the screen with a bunch of strangers
  • Still from Melancholia

    Lars von Trier collides with the Hollywood blockbuster in Melancholia

    Danny Leigh: The Danish director's new film is almost a standard disaster movie – but there's no lantern-jawed hero to save the day here

  • Children of the Revolution

    The Baader-Meinhof gang lives on in Children of the Revolution

    Danny Leigh: Shane O'Sullivan's new film revisits the story of Germany's infamous terror group, but brings in the Japanese Red Army to offer a fresh comparison and insight into the terrorist psyche
  • Derek Jarman – the subject of an Edinburgh film festival mini-season, curated by Gus Van Sant.

    Derek Jarman's time comes round again with Gus Van Sant season

    Danny Leigh: Maddening, sexy, disorientating – the work of the late Derek Jarman is as breathtaking and relevant as it ever was
  • The Smurfs

    The kids are coming to a cinema near you: will you turn the air blue?

    Danny Leigh: As Kung Fu Panda 2 kicks off the children's film season – and with The Smurfs lurking at the other end – just try to remember the excitement of your first cinema trip
  • It's All About Love

    The salutary tale of Thomas Vinterberg, ghost of filmic failure past

    Danny Leigh: Lars von Trier's Cannes slating calls to mind the fate of his fellow Danish film-maker, who likewise fell abruptly from critical grace
  • Brit abroad ... Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, the subject of Londoner Asif Kapadia's latest film.

    Senna director Asif Kapadia: Britain's world champion

    Danny Leigh: The Londoner behind the Formula One documentary steps beyond the well-trodden path between home and Hollywood
  • Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver

    Why we are locked in the back of Taxi Driver's mind

    Danny Leigh: We will never tire of reissues of Scorsese's New York fever dream because De Niro's mysterious Travis still haunts us
  • Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs – one of the 90s' few cinematic masterpieces.

    There's no movie magic in 90s nostalgia

    Danny Leigh: Next year sees the 20th anniversary of Reservoir Dogs. But while the 70s and 80s were golden years for cinema, what's the best we can say of the decade that followed?
  • Scarface

    The must-have release of 2011: a $1,000 Scarface Blu-ray

    Danny Leigh: In straitened times, what could be more essential than a $1,000 re-release of Brian De Palma's addled masterpiece – with an 'elegantly hand-crafted Scarface-themed humidor' thrown in?
  • Moon film sam rockwell

    Going solo: the grinding power of the single-actor film

    Danny Leigh: The recent flowering of one-actor set pieces join a tiny but diverse sub-genre exploring the sad gnaw of solitude
  • David Prowse as Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back

    What if Star Wars had never existed?

    Danny Leigh: Would cinema be better off if George Lucas had ditched the films after American Graffiti and bred koi instead?
  • Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don't Look Now

    Good screen sex is hard to find ... unless you watch a Nicolas Roeg film

    Danny Leigh: The director of Don't Look Now knew how to use a sex scene to lift a film, not overwhelm it – a skill that few film-makers have
  • Children of Men

    Forget America, nobody does cinematic dystopia better than the Brits

    Danny Leigh: The singularity of the British dystopia, neatly evoked in Never Let Me Go and elsewhere, is all the more apparent beside its US cousin
  • CHARIOTS OF FIRE

    The King's Speech takes us back … to 1981

    Danny Leigh: Nostalgia tinged with deference is reaching a peak, to coincide again with a sense of society coming apart at the seams
  • aron ralston james franco

    You can tell everybody this is your biopic (just stay off screen)

    Danny Leigh: From a photo of the real Harvey Milk to a shot of the climber in 127 Hours, why do films flaunt their subjects as the credits roll?
  • Walt Disney's Dumbo

    Halt, Disney: How the rise of Pixar did for Dumbo and co

    Danny Leigh: The BFI's tribute season cannot disguise the fact that Uncle Walt's empire has lost its lustre in recent years
  • Black Swan - Natalie Portman

    In praise of the Black Swan controversy

    Danny Leigh: Darren Aronofsky's thriller has polarised audiences to a degree that is all too rare in awards season. All the more reason to treasure a film that drives us to wide-eyed devotion or furious loathing
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