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Le Weekend in Cannes is always a terrific people-watching opportunity as French film fans and fashionistas arrive in their droves. There were plenty of the latter at Friday's Belvedere Vodka party at the swanky VIP Rooms club. A few celebs dropped by too, including The Hunger Games' Liam Hemsworth who came straight from a 12.30am flight - just in time to see Reverend Run from Run DMC's retro mash-up set, which got everyone jumping. Good to see the cool crowd letting their hair down.

Legendary drummer Ginger Baker makes life very difficult for his interviewer Michael Hann during the Q&A for his new documentary Beware Of Mr Baker. You have been warned…  

The sun is shining on the Croisette, the cafes filled with people-watchers gazing through designer sunglasses - yes, Cannes is looking like Cannes again. Fittingly, yesterday's big competition film wasThe Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola's take on the gang of students who broke into Hollywood homes so stuffed with designer gear, some victims didn't even know they'd been robbed.

Once again Baz Luhrmann has spun a prim classic tragedy into a chaotic raucous romp. But The Great Gatsby won't be for everyone, particularly those partial to sea sickness or a fear of feathers.

On the opening day of Cannes Film Festival 2013, The Great Gatsby was the talk of the town as soon as everyone's plane touched down - including the one carrying stars Carey Mulligan and Isla Fisher, who travelled from London together with Elizabeth Debicki, a glamorous addition to the cast of Baz Luhrmann's lavish adaptation.

The Wolfpack return to the scene of the crime in The Hangover: Part III, in cinemas 23rd May, so to honour their Vegas comeback, we scanned our hazy memories and desperately tried to recall our 25 favourite bits of Hangover trilogy trivia...

Even the biggest fans of 2001 street-racing thriller The Fast And The Furious wouldn't have dreamed that the franchise would still be going strong over a decade later. Now, as Fast & Furious 6 prepares to low-ride into cinemas, we look back at the bizarre history of a series with more twists, turns and pit-stops than your average grand prix…

Fast & Furious 6 motors into cinemas this week, and rumour has it there's a mid-credits sting that sets up the villain for Fast & Furious 7, which incredibly, is due for release next summer... despite not being shot yet.

With Fast & Furious 6 approaching cinemas at a fearsome speed, we thought it was time to change gears and slow down to appreciate some fascinating facts from the five movies in the Fast & Furious franchise so far...

Star Wars and Star Trek have long existed as the biggest "either/or" of Hollywood, a hovering hypothetical that transcends simple nerd territorialism and is instead a far more universal yin and yang of things that explode in space (even though, a Star Trek fan is more likely to point out, space is a vacuum and they really shouldn't).