Reviews & features: Cameron Diaz

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

A chaotic tribute to the former Python that sheds very little light on the facts

Graham Chapman remains the most enigmatic member of the Monty Python team. Even before his premature death in 1989, when he succumbed to throat cancer aged just 49, he had failed to capitalise on the success of the landmark BBC show in the way the other…

Five of the best cinematic unhappy endings

This Valentine's Day, enjoy some movies where the two leads don't live happily ever after

WARNING: This list contains major spoilers.

Gambit

Charmless remake of 1966 caper flick, starring Colin Firth, Alan Rickman and Cameron Diaz

A very loose remake of the 1966 film starring Michael Caine as a cat burglar, the most notable thing about this art scam caper movie is that it’s been written by Joel and Ethan Coen. Don’t get too excited, though. While it boasts the precision plotting…

What To Expect When You’re Expecting

A witless and bland work based on the pregnancy self-help book

‘You don’t know what love is until you’ve wiped someone’s ass,’ offers one of the many baby-boomers in Kirk (Waking Ned, Everybody’s Fine) Jones’ multi-stranded adaptation of the bestselling self-help book about the dos and don’ts of pregnancy.

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz star in Knight and Day

‘I’m the guy!’ smirks madcap assassin Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) to mousey June Havens (Cameron Diaz) as he kidnaps her at gunpoint from a Boston cafe. Sadly, on the evidence of James Mangold’s pumped-up spy thriller, Cruise has little to be so cocky about…

Shrek Forever After

(U) 93min After the patience-sapping Shrek the Third, DreamWorks’s animation department offer a fourth and final instalment, rebooting the flagging franchise with a new alternate-reality twist. This year’s monster hit How To Train Your Dragon…

The Box

(12A) 115min As with his debut, Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly’s third film boasts an intriguing conundrum and an evocative period setting to complement it. Unfortunately, like his second film, Southland Tales, Kelly’s latest eventually unravels into an…