No regrets … Marion Cotillard and Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception. Photograph: Melissa Moseley/AP Forty-seven years after her death, Edith Piaf is soundtracking the biggest, darkest, most bombastic blockbuster of the summer. Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception’s entire soundtrack, from the booming trombone theme to the strains of rising dread, ioriginates from one of [...]

Condoleezza Rice plays piano and Aretha Franklin sings at the Mann Centre in Philadelphia last night as they raised money for urban children. Photograph: Bill Mccay/Bill McCay/WireImage.com It was an unlikely pairing. Stage left, Condoleezza Rice, the former Republican darling, a classically trained pianist and academic perhaps better known as George Bush’s enforcer. Stage right, [...]

The next Full Monty? … Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham, about the 1968 Ford strike. Nicole Kidman, Ben Affleck, Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley will be among the actors hawking their wares at this year’s 35th Toronto film festival, which also features world premieres from directors such as Robert Redford, Emilio Estevez and Philip Seymour [...]