Al Pacino is set to reunite with Brian De Palma on 'Happy Valley'.

He’s more familiar with Kill Bill than with Killarney, but that hasn’t stopped director Quentin Tarantino from enjoying a Kerry-style redub of his classic film Pulp Fiction.

There is nothing like a dame and the seductress at the centre of Ruben Fleischer’s stylish crime thriller certainly sends temperatures soaring.

Bob Hoskins’s retirement after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease brings the curtain down on a distinguished career.

Julianne Moore is to join the cast of the 'Carrie' remake.

A LOVELORN John Travolta pining for Olivia Newton-John may not, at first glance, represent film at its dazzling zenith, but film buff Garry Mulholland begs to differ.

Change is good.

A new 'Scarface' movie is being developed, it has been reported.

NOW that the games have begun again, and the vapours have subsided for those shocked by the revelations in Donal Óg Cusack’s autobiography, we can focus.

De Palma’s stark drama Redacted, made as a semi-doc, tells the story of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl by American soldiers in Iraq. And Americans are rather miffed that their heroes should be depicted as less than heroic.

Director Brian De Palma's montage of Iraq war casualties was censored in new movie 'Redacted' on the insistence of insurance companies, who feared relatives of the victims would sue the movie-makers.

Director Ang Lee has triumphed at the Venice Film Festival - by winning the event's top award for the second time in two years.

ANG LEE’S steamy espionage thriller Lust, Caution won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett took the acting honours.

Ang Lee’s steamy espionage thriller Lust, Caution won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett took the acting honours.

Charlize Theron is the latest Hollywood star to call for US troops to leave Iraq.

DIRECTOR Brian De Palma stunned the Venice Film Festival yesterday with his harrowing new film about the horrors of the Iraq war.

IT IS entirely possible that Brian De Palma’s harrowing new film about the horrors of the Iraq war may add sufficiently to the anti-war momentum in America to force President George W Bush to accelerate an inevitable withdrawal of US forces from that devastated country.

The Venice Film Festival begins today with the world premiere of Keira Knightley's latest film, 'Atonement'.

THE Venice film festival will celebrate its 75th birthday this year with a star-packed lineup with directors like Kenneth Branagh, Brian De Palma, Ken Loach, Peter Greenaway and Ang Lee vying for its top prize.

When cops Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) probe the brutal murder of a young starlet, they become obsessed with solving the killing, with unforeseen consequences.

An engrossing telling of one of America’s most mysterious true-life murders, that of l940 wannabe actress Elizabeth Short who came to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune.

British film The Queen is among the favourites to win the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival tonight.

Scarlett Johansson sailed into the Venice Film Festival today to promote her new film The Black Dahlia.

Hilary Swank and her husband, Chad Lowe, recently announced their separation, but the Oscar-winning actress says they hope to rescue their eight-year marriage.

Hollywood veteran Al Pacino is returning to his gangster role as Tony Montana for a computer game.

Movie legend Robert De Niro is reprising his role as gangster Al Capone in a spin-off of 1987 film The Untouchables.

IT could have been lifted straight from a Friends script — after months of expectant press reports that actor Courtney Cox was pregnant with a boy, she finally gives birth to a girl.

Soon-to-be-very-big young actress Scarlett Johansson will co-star with Hollywood hunks Mark Wahlberg (pictured) and Josh Hartnett in her next film role.

New Adam Sandler, Antonio Banderas and Mike Leigh movies will be shown at this year's Cannes Film Festival.