Jodie Foster’s  first films as a director were personal. Money Monster, starring a dancing George Clooney, sees her tackling the financial sector, writes Helen Barlow

Judi Dench, Dominic West and Ed Sheeran are among the stars to auction off personal drawings to raise money for breast cancer.

Five things to do this week in the worlds of arts

Here are some of the best things to do this week in Ireland.

LILY JAMES can’t believe the furore over the size of her waist in the new cinematic retelling of Disney’s Cinderella.

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Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter’s portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s tempestuous relationship has been recognised with a TV Bafta nomination in the UK.

The elites in British life are increasingly drawn from a class privileged by the school their parents sent them to, while the prospect of social mobility for the poorer in society decreases steadily, writes Jill Lawless.

Prince Harry celebrated completing his South Pole trek by drinking champagne from a prosthetic limb.

Prince Harry has broken a toe following a minor accident but will still take part in a gruelling charity trek to the South Pole, Kensington Palace has said.

At home his kids called him head-the-ball, their fondness for Seamus Heaney the father more than a match for their awe of him as artist.

Highlights include John Creedon's retracing of Michael Collins's final day.

American Horror Story: Asylum' and 'The Big Bang Theory' have each been nominated for six Critics' Choice Television Awards.

Helena Bonham Carter is to play Elizabeth Taylor in a feature-length TV drama.

There was Irish success in four Bafta categories in London last night.

Irish comedian Brendan O’Carroll, star of BBC1’s Mrs Brown’s Boys, saw off competition including Rev and Fresh Meat to win the Situation Comedy category.

Some of the biggest stars of the small screen will be on the red carpet tonight at the TV Baftas.

Des O'Driscoll gives the lowdown on what's will be hot on the box over the next seven days.

A TV drama about serial killer Fred West headed the shortlist for the TV Baftas today with nominations for four awards.

BBC1 drama 'Great Expectations' leads this year’s Bafta TV Craft Awards, honouring behind-the-scenes talent in programme-making.

'Appropriate Adult' stars Dominic West and Emily Watson have each carried off a Royal Television Society award for their performances in the drama about the killer Fred West.

Since Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 'A Princess of Mars' was published nearly 100 years ago, his otherworldly tale story has been subsequently been reworked and riffed on by nearly every sci-fi book or movie to follow.

The best ghost stories often have a gimmick or sting in the tail that sends a chill down the spine, epitomised by M Night Shyamalan’s audacious debut feature 'The Sixth Sense'.

JOHNNY DEPP played an extravagant version of the controversial author Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).

'Johnny English Repackaged' might be a more fitting title for Oliver Parker’s belated sequel to the 2003 comedy, which poked gentle fun at the image of British spies as debonair gents with a licence to kill.

A 100-YEAR-OLD horse-drawn farm cart carried the last Knight of Glin to his final resting place in Co Limerick yesterday.

IRELAND has lost one of its “titans and greatest champions” of the arts and heritage following the death of the last-ever Knight of Glin.

Upcoming ITV drama, Appropriate Adult, focuses on murderer Fred West’s relationship with a social worker. One of his surviving children approves of the project, writes Suzanne Harrington

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Dominic West has recurring "nightmares" since playing serial killer Fred West.

Families of Fred West's victims are outraged about a new ITV drama, which documents the life of the notorious murderer.

'The Wire' star Dominic West is set to play serial killer Fred West in a new ITV drama, it has been announced.

Dominic West has married his long-term partner Catherine Fitzgerald in Limerick.

STAR of the hit TV series, The Wire, Dominic West will marry a Co Limerick woman at her family castle on the banks of the Shannon Estuary tomorrow.

Real-life married stars Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly were “perfect” for the role as man and wife in the new film 'Creation', its director said.

Hugh Jackman and Dominic West have emerged as the frontrunners in the race to play the next James Bond - because no one wants the role as much as they do.

Julia Roberts takes a few paces backwards with this merely so-so story, playing an art history teacher.

Damien Dempsey has walked away with two awards at the 2004 Meteor Ireland Music Awards, hosted by Dara O’Briain at The Point.

One of the most glamourous nights on the irish music calendar has concluded, with awards going to a variety of irish and international stars.

Chart sensation Katie Melua and ‘Best Irish Band’ nominees Snow Patrol have confirmed that they will perform at the star studded music extravaganza, hosted by Dara O’Briain, on Monday night in The Point.

Julia Roberts confessed at the New York premiere of her latest film Mona Lisa Smile, that it was odd having new hubby Danny Moder behind the camera for her love scenes with British actor Dominic West.