Christmas arrives. Die Hard is on. Only this year it doesn’t involve Bruce Willis climbing up an elevator chute and killing baddies. No, this year Die Hard took place at the reconvened FAI AGM.

From film to fashion, books to TV, our writers pick the best cultural highlights of the season.

It’s 25 years since Quentin Tarantino gave us ‘Pulp Fiction’. Chris Wasser looks back at the movie no one wanted to fund, that would go on to change cinema forever.

The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year, writes James A Green.

Thessaly La Force meets Oscar-nominated Viggo Mortensen, the accomplished actor who has made his career by defining himself as everything a movie star isn’t

Playing one character can be challenging enough. So taking on a big screen character that has 20 personalities is no small feat, writes Kerri-Ann Roper

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

It’s easy to see how magical Skellig Michael captured Hollywood’s imagination, writes John Daly.

Many of us will have seen movies such as Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford, or The Fifth Element with Bruce Willis. We get a sense the world of the future shown is dystopian, with a single corporation towering over most things.

Hollywood director Oliver Stone wanted a hit - and the chance to put America’s most famous dissadent on screen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow the film got made.

 

The 1998 smash hit movie Armageddon may not be the most high-brow of films, but it’s an entertaining romp all the same.

We met up with Dublin-born Risteárd Cooper - one third of the Après Match crew - to find out what makes him tick. 

Bruce Willis was already in his mid-30s by the time Die Hard came out - which made him perfect to play the everyman hero who survived a whole mess of trouble a Nakatomi Plaza.

Die Hard gets the Honest Trailers treatment and it revealed to be the best Christmas movie ever made - which we already knew

Some celebrities are apparently able to stay close to their exes. Ailin Quinlan explores whether this is a good idea for the rest of us.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Here's the best of tonight's telly.

NO ONE likes a snake in the grass but, then again, most snakes don’t wear camouflage, have a bionic arm and carry enough weapons to host the Hunger Games. Most snakes don’t knock you out, tie you to a balloon and send you back to an army base on the ocean.

Some top classics on telly.

Dresses worn by Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Greta Garbo are among items of Hollywood memorabilia expected to sell for huge sums when they are auctioned off tomorrow.

A quiet Sunday in with the tellly. Lovely.

Your guide to tonight's TV.

The Water Diviner. Australia, 1919. Still struggling to come to terms with the death of his three sons at Gallipoli, Connor (Russell Crowe) is devastated when his wife commits suicide.

Last Tuesday, Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis opted for some downtime, taking himself off to the theatre. The play he opted for was Happy Days by none other than Samuel Beckett. 

Your TV guide for tonight.

Bruce Willis is to star in 'Extraction'.

MY car doesn’t have a complicated dashboard. It gives very little feedback or nothing involving the word ‘Diagnostics’ or “Realtime Information”. “Get petrol” or “The key is on”, it mutters gruffly from time to time. Except today.

So Seth Meyers is set to make his debut hosting the Emmy Awards this year.

BALLYTURK: Anybody wishing to see Cillian Murphy’s return to his hometown stage needs to get on the case soon as all evening performances of Ballyturk at Cork Opera House (August 26-30) are sold out-

Sylvester Stallone has dismissed reports he's had a falling out with Bruce Willis.

Here’s our spoiler-free guide to what you should watch on the box tonight.

POOR old Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow. There they are, breaking up in the most grown-up, thoughtful way possible.

Bruce Willis has become a father again.

DOLLY PARTON apparently once said “just because you lost your fuzz, don’t mean you ain’t a peach”.

Your daily, spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Heming are expecting their second child together.

IN THE coming days, Bettina Wulff will testify in the trial of her estranged husband, Christian Wulff, the former president of Germany who stands accused of taking bribes.

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are officially divorced.