You don't normally picture a celebrity doing something mundane.

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their picks for the year ahead.

For more than 9,000 chemistry students, a three-hour Leaving Certificate exam featured one topic examined for the first time.

Suzanne Harrington takes a fan’s approach to hunting out the the elephant in the room. Madonna, she says has highlighted the fact that women after 50 are regarded as cultural castrati and should leave the sexual arena quietly — and to the young and beautiful.

Cinderella ****

When the secret crabby patty formula is stolen, SpongeBob and pals go on an adventure to retrieve it!

Declan Burke provides a quick snapshot of new year movie releases.

Declan Burke provides a quick snapshot of new year movie releases.

Check out our spolier-free guide to Christmas Day TV.

Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Antonio Banderas flex their muscles in The Expendables 3, and a talented table footballer learns to play the beautiful game for real in the computer-animated fantasy The Unbeatables.

THE CITY air smells like incense. Stall owners prepare for the crowds, turning on the water sprinklers over fresh coconut pieces, and arranging tubs of sweet marshmallow, giant lollipops, plastic horns, drums and cold drinks.

Sharon Stone is "available for dating" again.

Ok, you’ll have to bear with me for a few moments here.

Hollywood stars Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas are ending their 18-year marriage.

Hollywood stars Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas are ending their 18-year marriage.

POOR Peaches Geldof.

French actress Juliette Binoche’s scream pierces the frigid night in the remote Chilean desert: “They are alive!”

Kelsey Grammer will replace Nicolas Cage in 'The Expendables 3'.

Melanie Griffith is "proud" of her daughter for landing the lead role in the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' movie.

Jennifer Lopez will star in Chilean miner drama 'The 33'.

Antonio Banderas will star in a movie as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for more than two months in 2010, and the charismatic survivor he’s playing couldn’t be happier.

Irish men have been voted among the sexiest nationalities in the world thanks to Hollywood heartthrob Colin Farrell.

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.

Antonio Banderas will play Pablo Picasso in '33 Days'.

Gael Garcia Bernal is to play Zorro in a new re-imagining of the franchise.

Haphazard and frenetic by name, 'Haywire' is a coolly assured and breathlessly choreographed action thriller that has been tailored to the dazzling athletic prowess of its leading lady.

Olympic fencer and movie sword master Bob Anderson, who fought Darth Vader’s light sabre battles and appeared in some of Hollywood’s most famous duelling scenes, has died at 89.

IT’S a reflection, presumably, of our uncertainty about the world’s immediate future in these times of economic recessions and global warming, but Another Earth (12A) is the second film this year, after Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, to feature a new planet appearing in the solar system.

I must admit I was a bit wary of 'Puss in Boots', Dreamworks Animation's spin-off of its blockbuster 'Shrek' franchise.

Actress Salma Hayek has said Antonio Banderas saved her career three times.

After 20 years, actor Antonio Banderas is working with director Pedro Almodovar again. It was worth the wait, says Helen Barlow

Antonio Banderas thinks Melanie Griffith’s drug addiction made her a Hollywood outcast.

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

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

STARGAZERS already were catching sight of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars at the Cannes Film Festival well before Midnight in Paris, the Woody Allen romance that opened the glamorous event last night.

OSCAR-WINNER Sean Penn has donned red lipstick, heavy black eye make-up and a wig to play an ageing Goth rocker in his new movie.

WOODY ALLEN would love to make a movie in Ireland if he were to receive an offer of incentives from the Irish Film Board such as those he’s received from other European cities such London, Barcelona, Paris and Rome.

Sad to say that one of the funniest and best loved of the recent spate of animated classics is running out of steam … it’s still delivering fun and adventure but not in enough quantity to suggest it has much more to offer.

Catherine Zeta Jones said she is “thrilled” to be made a CBE, and her parents seem pretty chuffed too.

ACTRESS Jennifer Hudson insisted her latest film will give an unbiased perspective on Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife.

Woody Allen confessed today that he stopped acting in the films he directs because it was “no fun” growing too old to play the romantic lead.

Antonio Banderas hopes to "surprise" everyone with a very different kind of role.

Cameron Diaz doesn’t want anyone to know she is princess Fiona in Shrek.