London Film Festival, here we come

Robert Redford

Hollywood stars including Tom Cruise, Robert Redford and Meryl Streep are expected to attend the 51st London Film Festival next month.

The trio are due at the world premiere of Lions for Lambs, a political thriller directed by Redford and also starring Cruise and Streep which explores the impact of war through entwined plots in Afghanistan and the United States.

The movie, the latest in a wave of coming films about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan including In the Valley of Elah and Grace is Gone, starring John Cusack, will get its first screening on October 22.