Ben Child: The 12 Years a Slave actor can project intense charisma and will bring a ruthless impenetrability to a Bond baddie. It's a role he was born to play
Despite its A list credentials, this film struggles to emerge from the shadow of Breaking Bad and No Country For Old Men
Adam Lee Davies: The movie versions of No Country for Old Men and The Road have brought McCarthy's uncompromising vision to a whole new audience. Has cinema finally caught up with him?
Kelly Macdonald has just been cast in the new Martin Scorsese's new TV drama. She tells Carole Cadwalladr why funny accents got her where she is today
With scarcely an ounce of fat on its bones and an unrelenting momentum, this is the Coen brothers at their finest and a thoroughly deserving winner of our poll
The No Country for Old Men star has retracted comments apparently aimed at "stupid" Spanish
Normally we're pretty indifferent in our house to the annual jamboree in Tinseltown. But we were delighted to hear the Oscar verdicts on the kitchen radio this year. Why? Because the Cohn Brothers strangely-compelling No Country for Old Men creamed There Will Be Blood - over-hyped as "the new Citizen Kane". It had me bothered after five languid minutes and looking at my watch from about half way through despite the ever-watchable Daniel Day-Lewis being on screen virtually all the time. That Oscar was for stamina.
The Oscars look set for a bloody showdown between the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood
Is the Coen brothers' brooding thriller really such a dramatic return to form?
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