Mel Gibson has been hiding away from the limelight for a number of years now but he's slowly on the way back with a new directorial effort called Jacksw Ridge and now his first lead role since the pretty terrible Get the Gringo in 2012.

Less than four months after the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney and Lucasfilm have given us a sizeable tease for the first in a long line of spin-off stories - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Fury (15A) stars Brad Pitt as Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier, the commander of a US Army Sherman tank operating in Nazi Germany during the last months of the Third Reich’s last stand. 

The gods bet on the outcome of a love triangle, kicking off an incredible adventure through the lands of the living, and the dead.

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Set for the most part in — and over — Italy during WWII, Red Tails (12A) concerns itself with a crew of African-American pilots who are considered inferior to their white peers when it comes to engaging the enemy in battle.

The nautical heist thriller ‘Contraband’ is a remake of ‘Reykjavik-Rotterdam’, an Icelandic film from 2008 which, admittedly, I've yet to see. Presumably, there must have been something about it that was compelling enough to warrant the effort and expense of an adaptation.

Work is reportedly underway on a 'Dirty Dancing' remake.

Not all films manage to bring sport across convincingly and football is the one sport that suffers badly, somehow it just can’t truly be captured on screen (from the dramatic point of view at any rate).

John Malkovich is so touched by the plight of migrant children who cross illegally into the United States that he plans to make a documentary about it.

To say that this off-centre film is Korine’s most mainstream effort doesn’t quite cover it, though it would be difficult to describe it in any other way.

One of Hollywood’s best character actors, Reilly, here gets a rare opportunity to star in a film, and he shows many of today’s so-called stars just what a large slice of talent can achieve.

If you saw the original, Dirty Dancing 2 is more of the same.

TROY star Orlando Bloom is the hottest bachelor in the world, according to America’s People magazine. Irish bad boy movie star Colin Farrell also features on the magazine’s list of the world’s 50 most eligible men.

Bad boy movie star Colin Farrell is among the world’s 50 most eligible bachelors, according to America’s People magazine.

Newcastle United’s St James’ Park was today unveiled as the backdrop to a new Hollywood movie.

Kevin Costner has been in need of a great film like this for several years. The man who grabbed a clutch of Oscars recently suffered a massive career slump via several of the worst films ever made.

Romola Garai, the British actress who has been nominated as the Most Promising Newcomer in the Independent Film Awards for her role in I Capture The Castle, is currently rehearsing in Dublin for her next film, Inside I’m Dancing.

Romola Garai, the British actress receiving rave reviews in America for her performance as a love-lorn teenager in I Capture The Castle, says that playing a heartbroken character hit too close to home.

John C Reilly, who co-starred in three of this year’s five Oscar-nominated films, has picked his next project after sifting through a stack of offers.

Annette Bening has joined the cast of Kevin Costner's new film.