In the headlines

- James Cromwell - the kindly farmer of Babe - has criticised Walmart for using pork suppliers that "torture" animals.

- US novelist Dennis Lehane will be writing the American remake of A Prophet.

- Justin Timberlake sci-fi In Time stole its bonkers premise from Greek screenwriter Odysseus Lappas, says Greek screenwriter Odysseus Lappas.

- Johnny Depp is rumoured to be making a cameo in London Fields, the film adaptation of the Martin Amis book.

- Screenings of LGBT-themed films at a festival in Ukraine have drawn homophobic protests.

Elsewhere on the site today

- Ben Child will Xpress how he feels about the Xplosive new X-men: Days of Future Past trailer. Xciting!

- Charles Gant will be filling us in on what made bucks at the UK box office this week.

- They can handle the awesome power of the Tesseract, but how will the cast of Thor stand up to the might of - him again - Ben Child? You can find out in our video interview.

- And clip joint will see you clear to the best clips about blindness.

You may have missed

- Pixar did a lovely thing: they helped Ken Loach out with his request for super-rare editing film stock.

- Paulina García talked about love, divorcee-style in our video with the Gloria star.

- This week's quiz was real horrorshow as we cut deep into A Nightmare on Elm Street.

- "YES! YES! YES!" And more. Our Nora Ephron interactive collated the writer/director's career in quotes.

- Susan Boyle said that a biopic of her incredible rise from very good singer to very rich and very popular very good singer will finally get going soon-ish ...

- ... while the Fifty Shades of Grey film has gone a little limp.