For 60 of my 75 years I was a film buff. A few words could be said with regard to the last of the old Cork cinemas, ie the Capitol which is nearly all knocked at present.

Andy Serkis brings his Gollum experience to Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, writes Susan Griffin.

A play has been cancelled in Belfast after Christians claimed it was blasphemous.

Why did nobody think of it before? The inaugural Richard Harris International Film Festival gets underway in his hometown of Limerick this weekend (Dec 6), 11 years after Ireland’s greatest Hollywood star of the 20th century passed away.

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy has joined the likes of Lawrence Of Arabia and Gone With The Wind in a list of the 10 greatest movie epics.

Happy birthday Tom! The man with the trademark moustache is 68 today, so we had a look to see what we could find out about the Magnum P.I. star.

It just goes on and on and on, remorseless, bordering on monotonous, to the point we’re almost numb to the scale of their achievement.

The passing of an 86-year-old writer has sparked a lot of comment in the last couple of days.

WE ARE used to seeing stills from old movies, classic celluloid moments captured forever — Marilyn Monroe in a white halter-neck dress standing on a vent, James Dean frowning, Elizabeth Taylor kneeling in a bikini, Charlton Heston in a chariot.

Andy Serkis is to star in a sequel to 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'.

THE eyes have it. Were it not for the quality of Andy Serkis’s performance in the central role, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (12A) would be little more than a nakedly commercial cash-in on the popularity of the Planet of the Apes films.

As its title suggests, Rupert Wyatt's ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ is intended to lay the foundation for a new franchise of sci-fi flicks in which humans and super-intelligent apes battle for earthly supremacy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is sifting through a stack of corporate, Hollywood and property offers as the celebrity politician nears an inevitable career crossroads: on Monday, he’s out of a job.

THERE is a scene in an old Hollywood movie where Charlton Heston, playing the part of Moses, holds up a stone tablet on which is inscribed the rules that the faithful must obey.

Stephanie Beacham entered the 'Celebrity Big Brother' house to help her daughter, it has emerged.

'Ben Hur Live' will enjoy its world premiere today, featuring actors, acrobats, dancers, horses, donkeys, eagles and chickens.

IT’S not usual for this column to open with a mea culpa directed at Gaelic football fans of the northern counties, but there’s no way out of it.

Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn has taken a swipe at ’predatory’ clubs and agents for attempting to unsettle his players.

Following the success of his latest movie, In Bruges, Dubliner Colin Farrell will head home for his next … he starts work on Triage for Bosnian helmer Danis Tanovic. First there’s a six-week shoot in Europe and then a four-week stay in Dublin.

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing Ben-Hur and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other figures in Hollywood epics of the 1950s and 60s, has died at 84, his family said today.

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing Ben-Hur and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other figures in Hollywood epics of the 1950s and 60s, has died at 84, his family said today.

FOR the last man on Earth, Will Smith has a lot of friends.

THE pro-gun lobby in the US is summed up for many by actor Charlton Heston brandishing a musket and declaring “If you want to take my gun away, you’ll have to take it from my cold, dead hands.”

Neighbours who live down the hill from Charlton Heston’s home are suing the actor, alleging their property was damaged two years ago when heavy rain sent hillside debris pouring into their home.

Sopranos star James Gandolfini will reign as celebrity monarch Bacchus during the 2007 carnival season in New Orleans.

Movie icon Charlton Heston is lost in a world of Alzheimer's Disease, according to close family friends.

Will Smith is to star in Warner Bros' adaptation of 'I Am Legend', based on the classic science-fiction novel by Richard Matheson.

As Easter nears, The Ten Commandments 50th Anniversary Collection (Paramount, €28.49) is a feature-laden triple disc edition, complete with two versions of the epic, Cecil B DeMille’s 1923 version and the 1956 one with Charlton Heston as Moses.

Part of a series of classic Oscar winners, Ben-Hur Four Disc Collector’s Edition (Warner, €37.95) is the daddy of them all.

MARLON BRANDO was a contender in the American Film Institute’s list of best quotes from US movies, but No 1 was Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

COFFEE was the strongest drink available at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel yesterday before it closed for a massive facelift.

Hollywood legend Charlton Heston's family and friends are shocked by the speed of his mental and physical decline, as his Alzheimer's disease worsens.

Films teaching Cold War children to “duck and cover” during an atomic attack and describing how Oskar Schindler saved more than a thousand Jews from the Holocaust are being added to the US National Film Registry.

Outspoken superstar Barbra Streisand has defended celebrities' rights to speak out about politics, insisting there have always been strong links between Hollywood and Washington DC.

It didn’t take long for Hollywood to revise its feelings about religious epics following the success of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.

A scene from the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind has been voted the best epic movie moment of all time.

It may be hard to believe but the greatest career regret the illustrious actress Ingrid Bergman had at the end of her life was turning down the opportunity to appear in Planet Of The Apes.

Hollywood superstar Sean Connery joined hands with an elite group of actors as he attended his first West End premiere for a decade.

Bowling for Columbine is a powerful, humorous and emotional look at why America is such a violent society.

Sean Connery’s much-mocked attempt at an Irish twang was today named the worst movie accent of all time.

Film star Charlton Heston made his last appearance as president of the National Rifle Association today, shuffling on to the stage before a crowd of 4,000 National Rifle Association members but too weak to give a farewell speech.

PERHAPS the most surprising moment during Sunday’s drab Oscar ceremony was not Michael Moore’s dramatic denunciation of President Bush and his ‘fictitious’ war on Iraq, but the audience’s reaction to it.