Do you have a favourite actor? How about a least favourite? In our semi-regular J’Accuse feature, two of Best For Film’s most opinionated writers go head to head in a no-holds-barred tussle over an actor or film which one thinks is super and the other reckons to be shite. This week: everyone’s favourite couch-jumping superstar, Tom Cruise!

Plans have been announced to turn The Terminator Franchise into a computer generated cartoon. Yes you did read that right.

Warner Brothers have revealed the point at which the first half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will end. Warning: spoilers!

A real case of ‘like father like son’ has come to light within the Gibson clan. Not long since the outcry against Mel’s incriminating tape recordings, Devout Catholic Hutton Gibson has sparked a similar response by calling the Pope’s sexuality into question.

Nicolas Cage with crazy hair and a rawhide trench coat – can you ask for much more from an afternoon of cinematic entertainment?

Just weeks after ducking an extradition attempt, Roman Polanski is to begin directing his next film – an adaptation of hit play God of Carnage.

M. Night Shyamalan hopes to regain his box office crown with The Last Airbender, a fantasy where Asians and Inuits save the world. Yet there is barely an Asian or Inuit in sight. Has Shyamalan rolled right inuit? Find out more about the racebending controversy here…

The Hangover director, Todd Philips is developing a biopic of Saturday Night Live alumnus, John Belushi.

Director Julie Taymor has never shied away from Hollywood-ing up the world of Shakespeare – her Titus Andronicus was an explosion of sex, violence and colour – and judging by the first poster for her upcoming The Tempest, she’s still going as strong as ever.

Director and gourmand Michael Winner has expressed his relief at the proposed closure of the UK Film Council.