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NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood's latest films performed tepidly at the box-office on Oscar weekend, with Melissa McCarthy 's "Identity Thief" returning to the top spot in its third week of release. The Universal comedy earned $ 14.1 million on the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, enough to regain the box-office title after losing it last week to 20th Century Fox's "A Good Day to Die Hard." The Bruce Willis action sequel faded domestically, but not overseas, where it took in $ 35.7 million. With a cumulative total of $ 93.7 million, "Identity Thief" is the biggest hit so far in 2013. Though the film has been badly reviewed by critics, the road trip duo of McCarthy and Jason Bateman has proved popular at the multiplexes, where no other comedy has been around to challenge it. More than anything, "Identity Thief" has proven the stardom of McCarthy, following her breakout performance in "Bridesmaids." &q

IF anyone needed a stiff drink after the awards, it was host RUSSELL KANE . The comic, who struggled with a drunk and boisterous crowd, lost the room in five minutes and failed to land a single gag. Instead of heading to the afterparties, he packed up his guy-liner and headed home. SAM FRYER , of Best New Band winners PALMA VIOLETS , said: "He was out of his depth. "Next year I'd have FRANKIE BOYLE hosting. Sure, he's offensive at times – but I thought the NME Awards are meant to be edgy." In the mood for a party ... Suede star Brett Anderson at NME bash BRETT ANDERSON of SUEDE was up for going "out out". And he joked that he had just the way to get his pals at the do up for it too. The lead singer said: "They should just spike everyone's drinks so that people do something outrageous." He brought along DIDZ HAMMOND , who used to play bass in DIRTY PRETTY THINGS . And Brett said Didz would be having a word with

By Chris Tookey PUBLISHED: 21:13 EST, 28 February 2013 | UPDATED: 21:13 EST, 28 February 2013 TO THE WONDER (12A) Verdict: Not wonderful Turkey Rating: It's a wonder that To The Wonder ever found a release. Terrence Malick's long, lugubrious film is a prolonged exercise in directorial self-pleasuring. Such story as it has concerns a blank-faced American (Ben Affleck reverting to useless lumpishness) bringing a lively, beautiful French girl (Olga Kurylenko) back to live with him in Oklahoma, where unsurprisingly she succumbs to boredom and discontent. Scroll down to watch trailer Its certainly not Argo: To the Wonder stars Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams Their Catholic priest (Javier Bardem) trudges around like a morose bloodhound, looking despairing, as though longing for someone, anyone, to toss him a morsel of intelligent dialogue. He seems to be struggling with something: it could be a crisis of faith, but it might equally well be haemorrho

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dale Robertson , the star of scores of Hollywood Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 89 in Southern California , Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla said on Thursday. Robertson, who was best known for his role of special agent Jim Hardie in the NBC television series "Tales of Wells Fargo" from 1957-1962, died on Tuesday, the hospital said. The "Sitting Bull" star had been in poor health for about two years and had a cancer diagnosis last week, his niece, Nancy Love Robertson , told The Oklahoman newspaper. Born Dayle Lymoine Robertson in Harrah, Oklahoma, in 1923, the actor attracted the attention of Hollywood agents after a Los Angeles photographer posted his photo in a display window. Robertson, who served in Europe and Africa during World War Two, starred in 60 films and television shows over his five-decades acting career, starting out with roles in 1950s Westerns such as "Devil's Canyon"

WHAT do you do when you've sold out stadiums and enjoyed 20 years of success? For Stereophonics main man Kelly Jones, the answer was to take a creative break to write a screenplay. A film school graduate, the screenplay (which he describes as somewhere between Quadrophenia and Stand By Me) still has a large element of his songwriting and music. Thirty songs were written for the project, the first ten of which are included on Graffiti On The Train — Stereophonics' eighth studio album. Here Kelly tells SFTW about its inspiration and how taking a break led to a burst of creativity. YOU recently took your first break from touring in years. How did it help shape this record? The greatest hits album (2008's Decade In The Sun: The Best Of Stereophonics) gave us confidence to realise that the band's name was out there and our catalogue was strong. To go off and try something different was OK. But everything's been received really well so far. Veterans .

By Chris Tookey PUBLISHED: 20:28 EST, 28 February 2013 | UPDATED: 20:28 EST, 28 February 2013 STOKER (18) Verdict: Flashes of talent, but profoundly vicious Rating: Stoker is an art-house movie which plays for most its length like an unacknowledged remake of Hitchcock's 1943 classic, Shadow Of A Doubt. After the death in a mysterious car crash of her father (Dermot Mulroney), a sulky adolescent (Mia Wasikowska) finds herself first repelled by and then attracted to her handsome Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode). Her needy, alcoholic mother (Nicole Kidman) has eyes for him, too. Scroll down to watch trailer Extreme violence: Matthew Goode, left, Nicole Kidman, centre, and Mia Wasikowska, right, in a scene from Stoker But there's something creepy about Charlie, and people who know the truth about him start disappearing. Trendy director Chanwook Park (who made Seeking Mr Vengeance and Oldboy) makes the film as elegant as a Vogue fashion shoot

Back-to-front fashion! BBC Breakfast's Susanna Reid admits wearing M&S dress backwards (but don't worry, Suze, even Angelina and Kate have done that...) Presenter tweeted after show: 'Why didn't you tell me?' Sigourney Weaver, Amanda Seyfried and Angelina Jolie have done same Duchess of Cambridge has worn belt upside down By  MARTHA DE LACEY PUBLISHED:  11:02, 28 February 2013  |  UPDATED:  14:09, 28 February 2013 Being an early morning TV presenter and getting up for work at 3am means getting dressed when you're probably still half asleep.  (Maybe even - if you have a sleeping husband and three small children you don't want to wake - in the dark.) So it's little wonder BBC Breakfast star Susanna Reid, 42, slipped up on the wardrobe front by putting on her Marks & Spencer dress the wrong way round. Scroll down for video Susanna Reid wearing her Marks & Spencer shift dress backwards on BBC Breakfast alongside Bill Turnbull yesterday morning