‘The Ides of March’ starring (and directed by) George Clooney as a presidential candidate and Ryan Gosling as his press secretary.

‘Melancholia’, a dark wedding tale, starring Kirsten Dunst and directed by Lars Von Trier. This was the movie Von Trier was promoting when he got thrown out of Cannes.

‘Like Crazy’, Sundance-winning ‘indie weepie’ set in England and America and casted by ‘unknowns’.

Moneyball, about a struggling baseball team, starring Brad Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman directed by Capote‘s Bennett Miller.

On the other hand…

Could this – for the re-make of Footloose – be among the worst film posters ever?

Brian O’Driscoll is the most popular outside centre in the world, according to latest voting in the Daily Telegraph:

Despite World Cup winner Will Greenwood available for selection, as well as Jeremy Guscott and New Zealander Frank Bunce, O’Driscoll leads the way in the most popular midfield for the greatest Rugby World Cup XV.

Amazed that this “mercurial talent” with an, admittedly, patchy World Cup record could garner such a big vote, the Telegraph conducted a poll among its online readers to double check:

Greatest Rugby World Cup XV statistics: Public want BOD at Outside Centre (Telegraph)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs3DABwn9Tk

For the Irish team in New Zealand.

She’s only TWO!

Mmf. Promised we. Wouldn’t cry.

Via John Kneler

Via AmyMary

Meanwhile, tomorrow’s UK Daily Star:
Jedward Cause Mayhem in The Big Brother House (PA)

Via Siobhan O’Donoghue