Sandra Bullock plays a mother fighting for survival in the thriller Bird Box. She explains why we need to change the way mothers are shown in cinema.

New York and Ireland are inextricably linked. Marjorie Brennan talks to five creative people about their time there.

Naomi Watts found huge success on the big screen but is now among the female A-listers who are discovering better roles on TV, writes Laura Harding.

After finally accepting he’s not going to fit into his size 28 waist jeans anymore, Caomhán Keane gets some help to update his wardrobe. Because personal shopping can be for boys too.

Sometimes less is more... says Annmarie O’Connor.

So have seen Gone Girl yet? Lots of us have already read the book.

POOR Peaches Geldof.

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

“... A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She’s standing with bare legs apart on a New York subway grating. Her blonde head is thrown rapturously back as an updraft lifts her full flaring skirt, exposing white cotton panties. White cotton! The ivory crepe sundress is floating and filmy as magic. The dress is magic ... ”

DOES the camp, cult classic film, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? hold a chilling echo of the gothic drama unfolding in the dear-old Labour Party?

Alan Carr has slammed gay activists for accusing him of being too camp.

ALISTAIR Darling, Groucho Marx and Denis Healey share the defining attribute for fashionable faces this season.

As the V&A museum in London opens an exhibition of iconic Hollywood costumes, Suzanne Harrington takes a look at the stories behind the clothes.

KATE WINSLET has perfected the art of the breathless, humbled acceptance speech during her many awards ceremony appearances.

HOLLYWOOD great Maureen O’Hara has spoken of her dream of finding and developing young Irish stars of the screen at a new drama centre which is to be built in her honour in her adopted west Cork home village.

ALMOST all her contemporaries from Hollywood’s Golden Era have passed away.

A WASHINGTON hotel backed by Irish investors, one of whom is Senator Feargal Quinn, has been repossessed by Barclays Capital which is trying to recover loans.

Kate Beckinsale’s daughter throws tantrums if she changes her hairstyle.

American film director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie 'Never On Sunday' and six more of his films, has died in Athens at 96.

The daughter of screen legend Marlene Dietrich has slammed Gwyneth Paltrow for accepting the role of her mother in a forthcoming movie - insisting the star is "too thin".

Oscar-winning Western actor Jack Palance, who starred in Shane, Sudden Fear and City Slickers, has died.

Vincent Sherman, who directed – and romanced – Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford during his heyday as a leading Hollywood filmmaker in the US in the 1940s and ’50s, has died. He would have been 100 on July 16.

Temperamental supermodel Naomi Campbell was disciplined by Hollywood legend Douglas Fairbanks Jr after throwing a tantrum at a London celebrity party 10 years ago.

On the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, a former prosecutor has unveiled what he says are notes of her secret confessions to a psychiatrist that show her as anything but suicidal.

Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape and True Grit, died yesterday. He was 82.

Veteran actress Hope Lange, who starred opposite Hollywood’s best and earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in the 1957 film Peyton Place, has died in California at the age of 70.

Playboy memorabilia, including a topless photograph of Marilyn Monroe, was going on sale today at an auction coinciding with the 50th birthday of the men’s magazine.

A topless photograph of Marilyn Monroe and a limousine once used by Playboy boss Hugh Hefner will go on sale next week at an auction to coincide with the 50th birthday of the men’s magazine.

WHEN he surrendered to the Santa Barbara sheriff last week Michael Jackson resembled an ageing Joan Crawford, pale, frail and weighing 120lbs.