Foxx swaps Dirty South for White House.

WWII gets even famous-er.

Building on last year’s success, Film Africa is back in London with another goldmine of shorts, documentaries and features that showcase the cinematic identity of a continent largely unseen on an international stage. With some 70 films in town, there’s every reason to take a trip to some of the more unlikely destinations of world cinema.

Autopsy confirms lack of brain activity. Take THAT, movie.

More like WINDFALL, right? Stupid Monday.

In honour of the release of The Shining conspiracy flick Room 237 and next week’s extended US cut of the seminal horror, Stanley Kubrick gets his masterpieces soaked in a flood of warm cut-price plonk. It’s Friday, so give your weekend the box-set treatment and annoy some friends with your best HAL 9000 impression: “I’m afraid I can’t let you drink that.” Classic.

And it’s a bad day for Moscow.

Sword to be traded in for fetching cane. Sandals still OK.

One of the most buzzed-about films of the year is finally here, and its reputation as magical, realistic, liberal, conservative, sentimental and hard-skinned is well-earned. Hard to pigeonhole and even harder to dislike, Beasts of the Southern Wild is an engaging swamp romp that has given the world a star in six year-old Quvenzhané Wallis.

Asgard’s resident bouncer vies for big promotion