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Andy Dougan's Movie World Friend Makes a Run for It

TEN years on the phenomenally successful Friends meant that David Schwimmer never has to work again. Bearing in mind that he's only 40 that doesn't seem likely, but he hasn't exactly been killing himself to stay on the Hollywood radar. He's done two movies - one of them an indie, the other a voice character - since the show ended in 2004.

Chemistry Test for Jolie and Brosnan

ANGELINA JOLIE and Brad Pitt worked their magic off the screen in Mr and Mrs Smith and ended up with a child to show for it. Chemistry between stars can make a movie a huge success.

Return to Vietnam

OLIVER STONE is heading back to Vietnam and this time he's taking Bruce Willis with him. The always controversial Stone was expected to make a film about Osama bin Laden. Instead he says he's doing Pinkville, a film about the My Lai massacre, for United Artists.

Battle Honours Atonement (15) Fine Performances in a Romance That Should Sweep Up Awards Atonement (15) Fine Performances in a Romance That Should Sweep Up Awards 4/5

THE first of this year's serious award contenders is a handsome romance that sets the bar very high for everything that will come after it. Atonement has been compared in some quarters to The English Patient, and coincidentally the director of that film, Anthony Minghella, even makes a cameo appearance.

Keira's Talent Comes of Age the 22-Year-Old Finally Gets That Grown Up Feeling

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY feels that at the tender age of 22 she has finally grown up, on screen at least. Her latest film Atonement is already generating awards buzz and Keira says it's the first film in which she has really felt comfortable and confident in her own ability. The wartime drama based on Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel reunites Keira with Joe Wright, the man who directed her to a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Pride & Prejudice.

Andy Dougan's Films in Town

MTHE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (15, 115mins) 5/5 Jason Bourne is back and has remembered who he is - bad news for all those who turned him into a killing machine. While he wants answers, they want him silenced. Matt Damon stars in the most exciting thriller of the year by a long way.

I've Come a Long Way From Fife to Fame. . . Kt Tunstall On the Journey From Syt Student to Global Superstar

SOME pop stars get a bit tetchy when they've got to spend the next six months of their lives doing nothing but promo for their new record. But KT Tunstall was positively thrilled to be back in Glasgow this week to talk about her second release, Drastic Fantastic, the sparkling follow-up to her phenomenal four-million-selling smash debut Eye To The Telescope.

Dirty Dancing . . .And Murder Carmen's Updated to 1960s America

BIZET'S top opera Carmen was set in a 19th century cigarette factory in Spain. A show based on the tale will have a different setting and century in Glasgow next week. Matthew Bourne's The Car Man is set in a greasy garage diner in 1960s America.

Pick of the Day Who Do You Think You Are? Bbc1, 9pm

MASCARA is wonderful. It thickens and adds length to eyelashes, and its colour can turn a Garfield into into a sex kitten. But it has a more important effect. Drama. There's nothing film/ television relies upon more than a woman with streams of inky-black mascara running down her cheeks.

Games

Blue Dragon, Microsoft, Xbox 360 GBP44.99 Website: www.xbox. com/ en-US/games/ splash/b/blue dragonxbox 360/ WITH more than 40 hours game play and a development team including some of the best known names in games development, Blue Dragon should be something special - and it is. It's a vast, rolling RPG with glorious graphics and soundtrack, strong storyline and amazing battles. The hero Shu and his companions use their shadows as weapons to defeat the evil Nene. A "must have" game for 360 ow...