Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson stars in San Andreas (12A), playing LAFD chopper rescue pilot Ray, whose considerable skills are tested to their limits when California experiences a massive earthquake.

What's on telly tonight? These shows are, and you should watch them.

Life is full of disappointments and the bedraggled heroine in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s sweet-yet-slight comedy has suffered her ample share.

As the Cannes Film Festival opens, Irish photographer John Minihan retraces the highlights of a career spent capturing some of Hollywood’s biggest names, and his Oscar party trip this year

GIG WISE: One of the big announcements this week was The Who bringing their tour to the O2 in Dublin on Saturday, Jun 8.

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Art imitates life imitates art in this delightfully offbeat romantic comedy, which ponders if the man or woman of your dreams is exactly that: a fantastical creation.

Kristen Wiig is set to star in a new action comedy movie.

Eva Mendes thinks boyfriend Ryan Gosling is "a dream" - to work with.

MY DAUGHTER comes into the kitchen from the sitting room, where she’s been watching Snog, Marry, Avoid, and asks me why there are so few women politicians.

SATURDAY

Antonio Banderas has signed on to 'He Loves Me'.

Antonio Banderas has joined the cast of 'He Loves Me'.

Colin Firth heads to the Oscars “as close as you can get to a dead cert” to winning the Best Actor Award.

NICOLE KIDMAN, we learned, stuttered as a child.

The final preparations for the Baftas are under way with more than 1,000 canapes being prepared, 540 magnums of champagne being put on ice and some of the biggest names in showbusiness getting ready to walk the red carpet.

'The King's Speech', starring Colin Firth and Helena Bonham-Carter, has as expected led the field in the 2011 Oscar nominations, and is up for 12 awards.

The nominations for this year’s Oscars are being announced today at the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.

BRITISH movie The King’s Speech is expected to reign at the Baftas after topping the nominations list for the film awards.

Colin Firth continued his success today with a Bafta nomination for best actor for his role in 'The King’s Speech'.

COLIN FIRTH was celebrating yesterday after being named best actor at the Golden Globes for his portrayal of stammering King George VI in The King’s Speech.

British actor Colin Firth was celebrating today after he was named best actor at the Golden Globes.

'Black Swan' and 'The King's Speech' lead the nomination for this year's 17th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.

'The King's Speech' has received seven Golden Globe award nominations.

The film about which there has been much Oscar talk arrives and all the eager anticipation and hype is fully justified.

Richard Gere didn’t want to star in ‘An Officer And A Gentleman’.

THE order in which siblings are born could play a significant role in determining whether they become the next Judi Dench or Tony Blair, a survey has found.

Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) is a successful, part-time fashion designer with a handsome Wall Street husband Stephen, a 12-year-old daughter Molly (India Ennenga) and a coterie of loyal friends: women’s magazine editor Sylvie (Annette Bening), clucky mother hen Edie (Debra Messing) and sassy lesbian author Alex (Jada Pink Smith).

Julia Roberts struggled to get noticed by Hollywood agents because they labelled her "too trailer park" when she first started out as an actress.

Actresses Annette Bening and Naomi Watts are to play mother and daughter in Rodrigo Garcia's new drama - replacing Robin Wright Penn and Brittany Robertson in the movie.

Actress Annette Bening has become the latest celebrity to join the debate over US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin - insisting the politician "deserves our respect".

Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks will be among the A-list stars who will pay tribute to movie legend Paul Newman at a benefit gala for the late actor's California kids camp The Painted Turtle.

Several doomed attempts have been made - all with big-name stars attached - to re-make George Cukor's classic 1939 story of catty New York society, a story that has always held a strong fascination.

Ben Affleck will not make a speech at the upcoming Democratic National Convention - because he doesn't want to steal Barack Obama's thunder.

Movie star Annette Bening has pulled out of her first performance on the Broadway stage for 20 years, citing "personal reasons".

One of those films that ought to have been so much better, based as it is on the autobiographical novel by Agusten Burroughs.

Helen Mirren is said to be a certainty for an Oscar nomination today for her role in The Queen, with a host of fellow British actors hoping to join her.

Napoleon Dynamite star Efren Ramirez was thrilled to learn one of his biggest fans is acting legend Anthony Hopkins.

Hollywood insiders are reportedly scratching their heads over how a performance less than 15 seconds long got an actress nominated for an Emmy award.

Ireland's favourite playwright Oscar Wilde has another of his classics set for the screen.

Hollywood legend Warren Beatty and his Oscar-winning wife Annette Bening caused a stir when they turned up at California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign rally in San Diego, California, on Saturday.

HOLLYWOOD veteran Clint Eastwood contemplated how deserving he was to come away with his second best director Oscar for boxing tale Million Dollar Baby, which also won best picture.

Stars went strapless at the Oscars – except for Hilary Swank.

IT'S the question everybody's asking: when the Oscars are handed out tomorrow night, will Clint Eastwood and his Million Dollar Baby clip the wings of Martin Scorsese's The Aviator's wings and burst Sideways bubble?