Extras

By Phelim O'Neill Most movies are shot on 35mm film, which holds far more visual information than old DVD can handle. The Blu-ray of Ron Fricke's experimental visual musing on the impact of mankind on Earth was scanned from the larger 65mm negative in 8k (most Blu-rays are scanned 2k). Basically, what that me...

By Catherine Shoard In the former she plays an emergent feminist battling husband Leonardo DiCaprio in 50s suburbia (the film plays like some fantastically mannered east-coast episode of Eastenders). And in The Reader (rather remarkably, in light of her Extras turn) she's an ex-Nazi prison guard who has a...

By Catherine Shoard There is just the faintest whiff of parody about this (Kate Winslet's Oscar-hungry, habit-wearing cameo in Extras comes to mind), but it's apparently excellent. It co-stars Amy Adams, whose fairytale film Enchanted raked it in at the box office last year. He's Just Not That Into You

By Vanessa Thorpe Russell Brand was named Best Live Stand-up Performer at the British Comedy Awards last night and he dedicated his award to his fellow BBC exile, Jonathan Ross. Accepting the honour from Los Angeles, where he is promoting his new film, Bedtime Stories, Brand said: 'It is a pity he is not ther...

By Jemima Kiss Another footnote of the imperial spread of BBC Worldwide today as some major BBC dramas are added to iTunes France. Pride and Prejudice, Torchwood, Extras and The Lost World are now all available en France either as a complete series or in individual episodes. Most shows are available in Fr...

By Philip French So given this dramatic lineage, dentistry would seem to be the perfect profession in which to place Ricky Gervais for his first major movie role after the successes on TV as David Brent, the repellent manager in The Office, and Andy Millman, the depressed minor actor in Extras. In David Koe...