Britain's Stephen Frears, director of box-office hit "The Queen" and other cult movies, on Wednesday was handed a prestigious French arts award for his "prolific, witty, high-standard and cheeky" body of work. The 67-year-old director, who in 2007 headed the jury of the Cannes film festival, was given the Commander of Arts and Letters award by Culture Minister Christine ...

Britain's Stephen Frears, director of box-office hit "The Queen" and other cult movies, on Wednesday was handed a prestigious French arts award for his "prolific, witty, high-standard and cheeky" body of work. The 67-year-old director, who in 2007 headed the jury of the Cannes film festival, was given the Commander of Arts and Letters award by Culture Minister Christine ...

Dean Spanley U, Nationwide Dean Spanley is a family film and a sweet film and a kindly film with the most delicious cast (Peter O'Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Judy Parfitt) but it is also a slow film -- the first hour is almost unbearably uneventful -- which could do with a bit of a rocket up its backside, not that ...