Maybe SOMEWHERE was a surprise winner of the Golden Lion for Best Picture at this year's Venice Film Festival, or maybe Sophia Coppola has made another understated and touching story about human connections?

Since she has become a mother, Sophia wanted to mine the parental relationship of a movie star with a child and the shift in priorities that comes with that responsibility.

At the Hollywood Premiere, Sophia talks about the legend of the famous Chateau Marmont Hotel where she set her latest film, star Stephen Dorff talks about his own stay there as an actor, and Elle Fanning picks up where sister Dakota left off.

This is rich Hollywood material folks...

It's an extraordinary film that was 60 years in the making, and the latest episode to "humanise" the British Royal family.

David Seidler, the writer of THE KING'S SPEECH wanted to tell this true story of the stammering King George VI and his Australian speech therapist for decades, but was implored by the Queen Mum not to while she was still alive. The memory of those events was too painful she said.

Now Colin Firth as the Monarch and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue give majestic performances in this funny, sometimes excruciating but deeply human tale of friendship, co-dependency and royal bromance.

Listen to how Firth learned the coping mechanisms of the stammerer, and how Rush used his colonial impertinence to break down the barriers of propriety and distance, to produce a remarkable friendship and an exquisite film.