Donovan is looking forward to travelling the few miles from his Co Cork home to play the city’s 38th folk festival, writes Ed Power

After making impressive videos for the likes of the Chemical Brothers, Adam Smith has united Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson in his feature debut on Irish Travellers, writes Ed Power

Take a trip back to the Golden Age of Hollywood with the Coen Brothers this week, while also enjoying over the top action in London and being more than a little freaked out by a future horror classic.

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.

If you haven't been watching Channel 4 TV show Utopia yet you've been missing out on one of the weirdest but most compelling series' around. Not to mention one of the most unique looking.

In serial killer thriller Solace Colin Farrell tries out his dark side as a murderer with Anthony Hopkins hot on his trail

Batman: Arkham Knight isn't too far away, with the June 23rd release on new-gen and PC looming out of the darkness.

Her ‘House of Cards’ character gets to the top of the pile by ruthless ambition, but Robin Wright is more laid back and relaxed about her career, Ed Power discovers.

Kevin Spacey tells Ed Power we shouldn’t be in such a rush to judge his House of Cards character

Oscars!

Cameron Diaz received the dubious honour of being dubbed the year’s worst actress at the 35th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies).

In the latest of embarrassing emails to leak online from Sony, studio co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin exchanged jokes about what president Barack Obama’s favourite films might be, focusing mostly on films starring and by African Americans.

Birdman squawked loudly at the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nominations.

Angelina Jolie has been branded a “minimally talented spoiled brat” by movie producer Scott Rudin, according to Sony Pictures hackers.

Britain’s Stephen Dillane and the Netherlands’ Bianca Krijgsman received the top acting prizes at the 42nd International Emmy Awards.

He might eat journalists for breakfast, but a diet of cockroaches and kangaroo testicles is definitely not on the menu for Roy Keane — he’s revealed he rejected an offer to star in I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

So have seen Gone Girl yet? Lots of us have already read the book.

Ben Affleck enjoyed ditching his strict diet for Gone Girl.

US streaming service Netflix has secured comic actor Adam Sandler, one of cinema’s biggest box-office draws, as part of its bid to transform the movie business in the same way it has changed television.

Gone Girl *****

A husband is suspected of foul play after his wife disappears in Gone Girl; Harry Connick Jr and Morgan Freeman star in the family-friendly sequel Dolphin Tale 2; a legendary vampire rises from the grave in the blood-sucking fantasy Dracula Untold, and Kevin Costner stars in American football yarn Draft Day.

When his wife goes missing, a husband falls under suspicion of murder.

From food to fashion, movies to music, our critics pick their hot 100 for autumn.

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

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

Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle is in talks to direct a movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with Leonardo DiCaprio tipped to star in the title role.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle is in talks to direct a movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with Leonardo DiCaprio tipped to star in the title role.

In honour of World Book Day - we're taking a look at the top book to movie adaptations coming to screens in 2014

House of Cards has revived Robin Wright’s acting career, says Ed Power

Hollywood may be hoping for less drama in 2014. 2013 was a tale of two cinemas.

The Swedish publisher of the best-selling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy has hired an author to write a sequel to the series by the late Stieg Larsson.

Breaking Bad, the brutal, drug-fuelled saga of an everyman’s ambition turned evil, captured its first best drama Emmy Award, denying online series House of Cards a history-making honour.

Sigourney Weaver is to reunite with Ridley Scott for biblical epic 'Exodus'.

Christina Hendricks will co-star in 'Dark Places'.

STARRING Jude Law, Rooney Mara, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Side Effects is a gripping medical thriller.

I’M INTERESTED in the duality of people, says Rooney Mara, of her predilection for caliginous characters.

A Good Day To Die Hard (15A) arrives to mark the 25th anniversary of the original Die Hard (1988), and while Die Hard 4.0 nudged John McClane (Bruce Willis) into James Bond territory, it remained good, clean, trashy fun, not least when Willis launched a stolen cab at a helicopter.

Charlize Theron is in talks to star in crime thriller 'Dark Places'.

Ang Lee wants to direct Angelina Jolie in 'Cleopatra'.

'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' sequel will not be released in 2013 as first thought.

The largest streaming video platform on the planet is betting its future on commissioning original programming, reports Nick Summers

James Franco has praised Kristen Stewart's acting skills.

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.