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With both The Hatton Garden Job in UK cinemas now, and We Still Steal the Old Way available on DVD from today, I thought i’d take a look at my favourite Top Five Heist/Crime Caper Movies… In order (for a change) they are:

5) In Security

In Security tells the story of best friends Kevin and Bruce, who are co-owners of a failing home security company in a town with no crime. As a last ditch effort to drum up some business, they start robbing the neighbors to instill fear and create a need for their services but bullets fly when they unwittingly rob the wrong guy – a suburban drug lord with a penchant for kitchen gadgets.

It’s fair to say I love a good goofball crime caper, but In Security however has much more than being just a “crime caper” going for it. For one it stars one of my favourite actors,...

It's National Dog Day today and there's no better way to celebrate than engaging in a friendly debate about who's the best superhero dog in comics. Is it Superman's Krypto? Batman's Ace? Hawkeye's Pizza Dog (Lucky)? The Inhumans' Lockjaw? Or perhaps even Cosmo, of the Guardians of the Galaxy?  To help focus our Poll, we're crafting a scenario that  'You're wounded, lethal baddies are closing in but rather than run, you have to stay and fight to protect something precious.'  With you, is one 'Super Dog' of your choice.  Which one would you chose? Krypto - Sometimes called Super Dog, this pet belongs to Superman and possesses many of the abilities of the Man of Steel, including flight, super speed, super strength and super hearing greater than Superman. Ace, the Bat-hound - Batman's trusty sidekick, Ace, the Bat-Hound may be the smartest of your choices.  Just like Batman, Ace...

In the '80s, we got Countdown and Channel 4. In the '90s, we got the Spice Girls and Channel 5. In the '00s, we got Dave and Top Gear repeats.

And in the whatever-we-call-this-decade, we've got ITVBe and Towie. Lots and lots of Towie.

Not content with ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4, the broadcaster launches ITVBe this evening, a home for "entertainment and lifestyle" programming. That basically means more Towie.

Who would want to miss this momentous moment in broadcasting history? All the big guns - Jamelia, Mark Wright and Denise Van Outen - are involved at some point tonight, and we'll be sticking it out for the duration.

We'll be live blogging the whole evening from the Peter Andre kick-off at 7pm to the closing of the reem Towie party at 11pm - just dipping out in time to avoid Joe Swash on Celebrity Dinner Date.

Join us...

--Debra Messing, Will Chase, Megan Hilty and boyfriend Brian Gallagher toasting in the Moet & Chandon Suite at Usta Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, NY. --N'Sync star Chris Kirkpatrick chatting with Harry Styles during the One Direction: This Is Us after party at Gotham Hall in NYC. --Samantha Harris eating dinner with her husband and two girls at Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza and Grill in Studio City, CA. --Dakota Johnson, fresh off of being cast as Anastasia Steele, enjoying a vacation with her family at the Villa Orsula [...]...

Comic-Con International has announced the schedule for the third day of San Diego Comic-Con 2013 on Saturday, July 20. You can clickHere to check out the full schedule, including comic book-related events, but we have pulled out all the movie, DVD, and TV-related panels right here. Take a look at what this day has to offer.

10:00 Am - 11:00 Am A&E Bates Motel

The Bates Motel is open for business in San Diego! Executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) will release new footage from the highly acclaimed A&E drama series Bates Motel exclusively for Comic Con attendees. The executive producers will be joined by the cast, including Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Norma Bates), Freddie Highmore (Norman Bates), Max Thieriot (Dylan), Olivia Cooke (Emma), and Nestor Carbonell (Sheriff Alex Romero) to discuss the show's unique backstory and creation. Fans will get an opportunity to...

Comic-Con is releasing its daily schedules over this long holiday weekend and the schedule for Saturday, July 20 has just come out. The day features panels on TV favorites like How I Met Your Mother (at the Con for the first time!), True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries as well as upcoming shows like Dracula and The Originals, and much more. Many of the major film panels are Saturday, including a look at the upcoming Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the Marvel panel, which will feature the Thor and Captain America sequels, and WB and Legendary’s panel featuring Godzilla, and Gravity.

Something is a bit off in Dolph's (Jack Plotnick) world when he wakes up at 7:60am and realizes that his best friend Paul, his dog, is missing. Paul never takes off on his own, so Dolph is afraid that something horrible has happened to him. A strange encounter with Dolph's neighbor Mike (Regan Burns) -- who seems unable to admit that he jogs -- rattles his nerves more, but that is only the tip of the iceberg of unhinged absurdity. When Dolph calls the Jesus Organic Pizza, things grow increasingly weirder. Purportedly to distract himself from Paul's disappearance, Dolph begins to pose seemingly unimportant questions regarding the company's logo (leaving the more obvious questions regarding Jesus' relationship to pizza, or how pizza can be classified as organic, for a slightly more sensical universe) to the overly helpful person (Alexis Dziena) on the other end of the telephone line. "The rabbit does indeed symbolize speed,...

Let's get the urgent concern out of the way first: Are we Ok with the idea of Lifetime's Steel Magnolias remake? I'm on the fence, but I love Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott, and mesmerizing newcomer Adepero Oduye. That's the good news. The downside is that a Lifetime remake may expose Steel Magnolias for what it really is: a Lifetime movie at heart.

As much as the lovable 1989 tearjerker comes up in conversation (which is mysteriously a lot, at least for me), it's a slight movie with a plot suitable for the network that brought you She's Too Young and every gymnast biopic featuring a traumatizing uneven bars scene. But that's also Steel Magnolias' charm; though it's a calculated, star-studded weep machine, it's also completely embraceable (and quotable!) on those terms. Here are the reasons it may be The best movie ever.

1. Everyone has a Steel Magnolia spirit animal.

This is so important.

Castle (Nathan Fillion) is on a photoshoot at the police department with some chicks dressed in uniforms. Why the police station? Just cos it's about Niki Heat and Beckett (Stana Katic) has to give an interview to Amy (Elizabeth Ho), 'Cosmo', as she calls her the inspiration behind Castle's new book. Castle claims to have offered them insight on the profession and solved some of their toughest cases. Well that's true as seen from my season 1 reviews. She tells the Captain (Reuben Santiago-Hudson) she wants him gone and calls them 'bachelor party strippers.' Captain agrees Castle has helped on cases and the mayor wants him here, also it's hard to get good press for the department. Esposito (Jon Huertas) asks why Beckett doesn't wear a uniform like that. Er she's not a uniformed cop anymore ha. Beckett is still angry Castle delved into her mother's death...

Little Miss Sunshine, a comedy about a dysfunctional family on an ill-fated road trip, and Half Nelson, a drama about the bond forged between a drug-addicted teacher and one of his students, lead the list of nominees for Film Independent's Spirit Awards, announced Tuesday.

Fox Searchlight's Sunshine and ThinkFilm's Nelson picked up five nominations apiece in the main categories, including best feature. Previously known as the Independent Spirit Awards, the awards, sponsored by Los Angeles-based Film Independent, honor achievements in the indie film scene. The winners will be revealed Feb. 24 at the group's annual awards luncheon, which takes place in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica.

In the best feature category, Sunshine and Nelson will compete with American Gun, a drama about the proliferation of guns in the U.S.; The Dead Girl, a mystery-thriller about a serial killer's victim; and Pan's Labyrinth, a politically charged fantasy film.

While the awards celebrate American independent cinema, a film qualifies if two of the three principal filmmmakers reside in the U.S., which is why the group included the Spanish-language Labyrinth.

Unlike past years, when some Spirit Awards nominees approached moderately budgeted studio fare, this year's selection hewed more closely to the lower-budgeted indie line. Sunshine, which was produced for about $8 million, has gone on to gross nearly $59 million domestically, while Nelson, which cost less than $1 million, has collected $2.7 million. In all, the group's nominating committees reached out to embrace 41 films, about half of which were produced for less than $1 million.

Past Spirit Award winners Felicity Huffman and Don Cheadle announced the nominees at the Hotel Sofitel in Los Angeles.

"There really is an explosion of talent in the lower-budgeted films," Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson said. "We saw more submissions of lower-budgeted films and better lower-budgeted films. Independent film is no longer confined to small character dramas. There are political films here, satires, comedies and fantasies. And there's (David Lynch's) 'Inland Empire, ' which combines a lot of them."

Lynch and his frequent collaborator, Laura Dern, were singled out to receive a Special Distinction Award in recognition of their work together running from Blue Velvet through Inland Empire.

Sunshine and Nelson also earned noms for their directors: the team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who helmed the comedy, and Ryan Fleck, who steered the drama. Their category also includes the late Robert Altman for A Prairie Home Companion, Karen Moncrieff for Dead Girl and Steven Soderbergh for Bubble.

Dayton and Faris were driving their kids to school -- in a blue van -- when they got the word.

"Our (twin) boys are 11, very into sports and very competitive -- they were cheering," Dayton said, laughing. Added Faris: "It's nice for them to know we are not moving out of our house. It gives them a small sense of security, even though there's no cash prize."

Alex Orlovsky and Jamie Patricof, producers of both Nelson and "Point & Shoot," were nominated for the Axium Producers Award, which rewards emerging producers with a $50,000 grant. Their competition is Julie Lynn, producer of Nine Lives and 10 Items or Less, and Howard Gertler and Tim Perell, producers of Shortbus and Pizza.

"We were all kind of bummed when we didn't get any awards at Sundance -- we got nothing, not even a consolation take-home tote bag," Patricof said. "This is a 180-degree turnaround."

Said ThinkFilm exec Mark Urman: "We're actively engaged in a properly funded and credible campaign for the Oscars in certain categories, and this helps. These nominations are sweet enough on their own, but it's no secret they're part of an even larger agenda."

For best male lead, the Spirit Awards nominated Aaron Eckhart for his lobbyist in Thank You for Smoking, Ryan Gosling for his teacher in Nelson, Edward Norton as a betrayed husband in The Painted Veil, Ahmad Razvi as a Pakistani rock star working as a coffee vendor in New York in Man Push Cart and Forest Whitaker as a high school principal in American Gun.

Gosling, whose chances of snaring a corresponding Oscar nom received a boost, said: "We watched (the nominations) on streaming video on our computer, and it was coming through very stutteringly. It was fun to see Don Cheadle say 'Half Nelson' so many times."...

NEW YORK -- Judah Friedlander, who co-stars in HBO Films and Fine Line Features' American Splendor as "genuine nerd" Toby Radloff, and Julie Hagerty have joined the cast of InDigEnt and writer-helmer Mark Christopher's indie feature Pizza. Ethan Embry and newcomer Kylie Sparks also star in the offbeat comedy about the unexpected relationship that develops between a thirtysomething pizza deliveryman (Embry) and a teenage high school girl (Sparks). IFC's InDigEnt shingle is headed by John Sloss and Gary Winick, who is producing with Jake Abraham and Process' Tim Perell and Howard Gertler. Executive producers are Sloss and IFC execs Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan. Pizza goes before the cameras this month in Pennsylvania. Repped by Innovative Artists and Framework Entertainment, Hagerty's credits include the comedy classics Airplane! Lost in America and A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. Her credits also include indie auteur Todd Solondz's Storytelling. Friedlander's credits include Meet the Parents, Wet Hot American Summer, Zoolander and Showtime.