Esther McCarthy selects six of the best from the feast of Gallic cinema on offer on Leeside

The 31st Cork French Film Festival's opening night film Proxima was the French film nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Kerry star Jessie Buckley has been named one of Variety magazine’s ‘10 actors to Watch’ for 2019.

Widows: Five stars Juliet, Naked: Four stars Peterloo: Three stars

Black ’47, out now - Revenge thriller set during the Irish Famine. Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan and Stephen Rea star.

Vanessa Redgrave, Nathalie Baye, Kerry Fox, Ross Noble, Anna Friel, and Ben Wheatley are among the stars joining Irish talents Jack Reynor, Moe Dunford, Cillian Murphy, John Butler, and Aiden Gillen on the red carpet.

Luc Besson has had plenty of hits including Leon and The Fifth Element but the 21st century had marked a pretty dry spell for the filmmaker, apart from those naff Arthur and the Invisibles animated flicks.

A crew of mercenaries signs up to defend some villagers from being driven out of their homes.

In remaking classic western, The Magnificent Seven, the director and cast had to bring something different to the table, writes Helen Barlow

The biggest release this week has one of the most amazing casts you'll ever see, and it's a rip roaring action film to boot. Plus there's horror on offer as well.

The team behind The Equalizer is back to tell a story of a small team fighting back against incredible odds in The Magnificent Seven.

The Legend of Tarzan 3/5

Tarzan is back in an action packed new take on the classic story this week, and it's a quiet enough time at the cinema otherwise.

Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve is back with another hard hitting feature in this week's Sicario and it's otherwise a pretty quite week - maybe so see The Martian if you haven't caught it yet!

Babywearing is no longer just for mums. Karen Funnell meets Irish men who believe there is nothing more manly than carrying your child in a sling.

We’ve got some teen romantic drama arriving in the form of Paper Towns as well as a horror offering from Irish director Ciaran Foy

The Purge horror series continues with its third entry already in the works and Purge 2 star Frank Grillo set to step back into this gritty world

The new remake of The Magnificent Seven is still casting up, as Peter Sarsgaard is a late replacement for Jason Momoa's villain

The first Sinister film was a fun little horror effort with a great leading performance by Ethan Hawke and there's a sequel on the way where we get to seeBughuul up to his old tricks again.

As New York storytelling club, The Moth, comes to Ireland, Richard Fitzpatrick learns the secrets to spinning a great yarn.

A former fighter pilot tries to adjust to his new life at the controls of a drone operating remotely from Las Vegas.

The sequel to creepy hit Sinister from Irish director Ciaran Foy is getting ready to hit cinemas and the first footage is out

Actor Emile Hirsch put a studio executive in a chokehold and dragged her across a nightclub table during the Sundance Film Festival, police have said.

The Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory Of Everything was the big winner at the Bafta awards last night.

Birdman has topped the nominations for the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nods, including best picture in the comedy or musical category.

Birdman squawked loudly at the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nominations.

Benedict Cumberbatch has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards.

Your spoiler-free guide to the best of tonight's TV…

Here’s a list of our top five events going on around the country.

MUSIC NEWS: The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue and co have been busy touring, with Hot Press also reporting the band recently shot the video for their single ‘Superheroes’ in a township in Johannesburg.

Begin Again ****

The summer movie season is in full swing but as some of the bigger movies recede into the distance what else is there to look forward to

'American Hustle' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' lead the 2014 MTV Movie Awards nominations.

'American Hustle' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' lead the 2014 MTV Movie Awards nominations.

A host of Hollywood stars turned out for the private funeral of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman today.

George Clooney is struggling to come to terms with Philip Seymour Hoffman's death.

WHEN Sharon Osbourne told Colin Farrell on the Graham Norton Show that vaginal tightening was the most excruciatingly painful cosmetic procedure she ever had, fifty per cent of viewers flinched — and that was just the men.

Started in 1978 by Sundance himself Robert Redford, the Sundance Film Festival is a yearly gathering of movie folks in the snowy climes of Park City, Utah where deals are done and the indie (and not so indie) releases for the year are teased.

MY friend Mike Dwyer recalls meeting the late Séamus Heaney and the playwright Brian Friel at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

Sandra Bullock was among the big winners at the Hollywood Film Awards yesterday.

The complex where the apartment is located is so exclusive actresses and socialites have been refused permission to move into the building.

At a glance they seem to have it all: fame, fortune and the sort of beauty most women could only dream of.

Two decades on from their romantic interlude in Before Sunrise (1995), and following on from their rendezvous in Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (15A) finds Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jessie (Ethan Hawke) on holidays in Greece, the parents of twin girls and comfortably in a long-term relationship.

‘The Purge’ suggests that for one night every year, citizens can take up knives and guns to kill anyone they choose without legal reprisals.

“Gather me into the artifice of eternity,” pleads the narrator of WB Yeats’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, but Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) and Clara (Gemma Arterton) are struggling to cope with the reality of a rather prosaic immortality in Byzantium (15A).