Cork actor Eanna Hardwicke may have grown up with a Young Offenders star, but he is set to make a name for himself with a string of big roles, writes Esther McCarthy

Shortly after the release of Batman v Superman, production on Justice League got underway. Jesse Eisenberg has seemingly revealed that he will return as Lex Luthor.

In upcoming action flick American Ultra, you will believe Jesse Eisenberg can kick ass.

Yup - this is the movie where Jesse Eisenberg becomes an action star. We're betting you never saw that one coming.

Jesse Eisenberg says he will portray a "complicated" Lex Luthor in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'.

43-year-old actress Uma Thurman is in negotiations to join 'Adventureland' co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in the action comedy which will be helmed by 'Project X' director Nima Nourizadeh.

Kya deLongchamps channels her inner starlet and finds much to admire in costume jewellery.

The mother of Simon Cowell’s unborn baby turned to him because she was lonely.

The cult of celebrity is at the heart of Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (15A), which is based on a true story.

DIRECTOR David Fincher always knew that Rooney Mara, the star of the eagerly-anticipated English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was a special talent.

SET AT the height of the Cold War, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (15A) is something of a throwback to another era entirely, that era being the mid-1970s, when a particular kind of paranoid thriller reigned supreme.

Normally a movie that follows a pizza boy and his loud-mouthed compadre as they do battle with two miscreants whose only ambitions are to be wildly wealthy and blow things up would garner little more than an exasperated sigh.

IT’S TOO soon to rush to declare Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life (12A) a masterpiece, but it is safe to say that there won’t be a more ambitious and thought-provoking film released this year.

A real animation charmer based on a well-written script that doesn’t skimp on a strong storyline and defined characters, nor on a funny stream of snappy one-liners that will appeal to the kiddies and the adults.

The interesting thing to emerge from this quite excellent and very American drama is that the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg (Eisenberg, bringing us an outstanding, dare one say Oscar-winning, performance), was almost completely lacking in social grace himself.

This neatly-constructed teen romance keeps you interested in what happens to the central characters, James (Eisenberg) and Emily (Stewart) who meet when he has to take a summer job at a run-down amusement park.

Wes Craven can rightly be considered the Hollywood master of horror, quality horror. Though not in this case.

THE FAI and their Swiss counterparts have asked for hundreds of tickets for their fans for their World Cup qualifiers in Tel Aviv.

Not all films need to be noisy and overblown blockbusters, not when they come as well written, directed and performed as this indie charmer.