This week’s new movie released include raucous British comedy What We Did On Our Holiday, Denzel Washington in The Equalizer and David Cronenberg’s gritty insider drama Maps To The Stars.

An aging actress pursues the role which made her mother famous while a young woman comes back to Hollywood searching for something she lost…

Robert Pattinson has confessed that he often feels like a con artist at auditions.

ONE only has to go back to 2012 to find a Nicole Kidman vehicle that elicited gasps among the critics at Cannes.

The allure of superstar Nicole Kidman was not enough to salvage "Grace of Monaco" from the scathing wrath of critics as the movie opened the Cannes Film Festival.

Ken Loach and Mike Leigh will go head-to-head at the Cannes Film Festival.

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THE S/S 2013 Fashion Weeks were seeing double, with some of the biggest international names sending their models out twinned, two by two.

MUSIC NEWS: While the London Olympics opening ceremony received a generally favourable response, there were a few grumbles about the musical component of the extravaganza.

Cillian Murphy will play a gangster in a new BBC Two drama 'Peaky Blinders'.

MUSIC NEWS: After the incidents and controversy generated by the recent Swedish House Mafia concert in Dublin, chances are that promoters, gardaí, local authorities, etc, will go all out to be seen to be on top of events in their area.

The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film adaptation will be produced by the team behind 'The Social Network'.

Rock of Ages (15A) attempts that toughest of tough things — find some substance in the lyrics of Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Def Leppard, Whitesnake and Poison and shoehorn them into a plot.

Robert Pattinson doesn't think he'd return to the 'Twilight Saga' for "a billion dollars".

Robert Pattinson admits he was "curious" about starring in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'.

A Hollywood master and a young pretender go head to head for Cannes’ top prize tomorrow, as films starring Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson had their premieres this week.

Transformers, vampires, singing high-schoolers — they can be hard to outrun.

Film festival celebrates its 65th birthday with typical glamour and glitz, says Don O’Mahony

Cannes got the hump with Sacha Baron Cohen yesterday as the funnyman staged his latest stunt to promote his new comedy film, The Dictator.

Arthouse directors and Hollywood royalty will converge on the French Riviera for two weeks from tomorrow as the Cannes Film Festival rolls out the red carpet for the giants and mavericks of the movie galaxy.

'Twilight star' Robert Pattinson is set to play the man who spearheaded the hunt to track down Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein, according to reports.

'Trainspotting' actor Ewan McGregor will join actress Diane Kruger and fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier on the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Michael Fassbender could be playing a prisoner-of-war in crime drama 'The Outsider'.

Viggo Mortensen explores the many facets of Sigmund Freud’s character in A Dangerous Method, writes Declan Cashin

“It’s time to play the music / It’s time to light the lights …” The Muppets (G) seem to have been away for a very long time, a fact not lost on Walter (voiced by Peter Linz), a lonely young Muppet who grew up with Gary (Jason Segel) for an older brother.

Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender downed vodka shots before shooting scenes for 'A Dangerous Method'.

GLANCING at Naomi Watts’ curriculum vitae, one could be forgiven for presuming that the 43-year-old actress has a penchant for American political intrigue.

Robert Pattinson is envious of the artistic freedom director David Cronenberg has earned.

As the sun sets on the vampire series, Robert Pattinson tells Patricia Danaher how Twilight has given him friendship, love, and thousands of frenzied fans

As the sun sets on the vampire series, Robert Pattinson tells Patricia Danaher how Twilight has given him friendship, love, and thousands of frenzied fans

'We Need to Talk About Kevin' has won the Best Film accolade at the BFI London Film Festival awards ceremony.

Ralph Fiennes is to receive a British Film Institute Fellowship.

GEORGE CLOONEY’S third directorial effort, The Ides of March, and Madonna’s second, WE, are bound for the Venice Film Festival, so the paparazzi should be out in force.

THE WORDS “cat” and “cream” immediately spring to mind, when a beaming Michael Fassbender comes loping into the Dorchester Hotel in London this week.

Keira Knightley will star alongside Robert Pattinson in 'Cosmopolis'.

Keira Knightley will not star in the new film version of ‘My Fair Lady’.

Hollywood superstars Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington are joining forces to star in a new thriller - written by the brains behind the Bourne trilogy.

David Cronenberg’s ‘Eastern Promises’ (Pathé, €24.99) is a chilling thriller, with Viggo Mortensen playing Nikolai, an enigmatic driver-turned-killer for an east European crime lord.

His last role in Russian Mafia movie Eastern Promises may have won him an Oscar nomination, but Viggo Mortensen reckons his success is partly down to good fortune.

Irish movie star Gabriel Byrne is to be awarded with an honorary degree today by National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway.

Cronenberg comes up with the goods in what is a tough and totally satisfying thriller set in London and involving the Russian Mafia, with a mystery surrounding the death of a pregnant teenage girl adding spice to the mixture.

Joy Division biopic Control leads the field at the British Independent Film Awards with 10 nominations.

Naomi Watts tried to keep her pregnancy a secret from the cast and crew of her new movie 'Eastern Promises', but couldn't hide the good news from the director's sister, who was the film's costume designer.

If 2005 was Jose Mourinho’s year, it wasn’t bad either for the mimic who entertained the Chelsea manager and his players. Mario Rosenstock explains to Liam Mackey how the surreal gig came about.