Pinewood Studios London was a fitting venue for Panasonic’s launch of a range of new high-performance TVs that promise to deliver a “Hollywood to your Home” experience.

From the big blockbusters and a new Bond movie to some strong Irish offerings, Esther McCarthy looks at the cinema highlights for the year ahead.

Cork actor Cillian Murphy is reported to be in talks to join the sequel to 'A Quiet Place'.

Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki and John David Washington are set to star in Christopher Nolan's upcoming film that is shrouded in mystery, according to Variety.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have picked Cork’s Chris Walley in the Bafta Breakthrough Brit awards, marking him out as one of the most promising actors this year.

The beginning of the year has become a treasure trove of cinematic treats for Irish movie fans. Keeping films fresh in the minds of awards-season voters often means they’re released just before Christmas in the US, so they reach our shores between the Golden Globes and the Oscars. Esther McCarthy selects the movies you really don’t want to miss

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is Ireland’s top-grossing film at the box office this year.

Irish artists have been nominated in 5 categories at the 2018 Golden Globes.

A couple of months after Martin O’Neill took a sabbatical from football management to help look after his then ill wife Geraldine, this writer interviewed someone who had played minor inter-county Gaelic football with one of O’Neill’s great foot soldiers at Parkhead, Neil Lennon.

From inner city Dublin to the red carpet of Cannes, it’s been quite a climb for Barry Keoghan. Esther McCarthy talks to the actor who first broke through in Love/Hate

The greatest argument against abortion for what is wrongly termed “Fatal Foetal abnormality” is given in the book “Under the Eye of the Clock” by Christopher Nolan.

Dave McLoughlin is part of Irish electronic music act Le Galaxie. The band will play Cork City Hall tomorrow as part of this year’s Great Irish Beer Festival.

US box office revenue this summer is badly trailing last year by 11% and none of the major releases still coming are expected to change that trajectory. In fact, things are likely to get worse for US studios before the autumn.

Many Cork and Irish lives were lost in the Battle of France, writes Damian Shiels

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk (12A) is an epic tale of the greatest mass rescue of World War II, when 400,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were left stranded and undefended on Dunkirk beach as the German army closed in for the kill.

Former One Direction singer Harry Styles has dispensed with his boyband heartthrob status to play a regular soldier in Christopher Nolan’s WW2 drama, Dunkirk, says Shilpa Ganatra.

Eoghan O’Sullivan shares the latest news from the world of entertainment.

Cillian Murphy has managed to make his name in Hollywood and maintain his film integrity. He talks to Shilpa Ganatra

Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Des O’Driscoll takes us through the week’s TV viewing and what needs to be on your list.

Marjorie Brennan shares the latest news from the world of entertainment

Here's your lunchtime news bulletin.

Here’s your weekly entertainment guide and news round-up with Des O’Driscoll.

Doctor Strange 4/5

Cillian Murphy has given Harry Styles the seal of approval for his debut movie role.

Suicide Squad is in cinemas in Ireland on the 5th of August, which is just over two weeks away, and it seems like only yesterday that Batman v Superman swooped down being all dark and stuff.

The cash pile at the entertainment firm co-owned by movie star Cillian Murphy topped €1m at the end of last year.

She dressed our own First Lady, Bowie and has been on-set designer for everything from Vikings to The Tudors. Ahead of her appearance at the Fastnet Film Festival, Clodagh Finn watches Joan Bergin at work at Ashford Studios.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2/5

He had mixed feelings about some of the year’s big sellers, so music writer Ed Power selected a personal list of the best albums of 2015

For Back to the Future fans, October 21 is D-day. It’s the exact date in the future when Marty McFly and Doc Brown flew from the ’80s in a modified DeLorean. What, asks Mark Evans, makes the move as watchable today as when it was released?

That most wonderous movie resource the Internet Movie Database has just turned 25, so it's the perfect time to celebrate the best movies of the last quarter century with a definitive ranked list.

Christopher Nolan’s next film will be released on July 21st, 2017, according to Warner Bros.

Check out our guide to the best entertainment on TV tonight.

SATURDAY

Marvel’s two-part Avengers: Infinity War films will be the first films to be shot entirely in the IMAX format. That’s good news if you’ve thought that Marvel’s releases could be more of a spectacle.

From drones to neuroscience, Richard Fitzpatrick runs through the big changes in the worlds of filmmaking and TV.

It’s been a bumper year for movie lovers — but 2015 will be even better.

The human race is dying, and their salvation lies beyond the stars...