LESS STYLISH than Raging Bull, less euphoric than the Rocky films, The Fighter (US/15A/115 mins) is a boxing movie made in the image of its hero, ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a solid but unspectacular Irish-American scrapper who slugged his way to a shot at the world title in the mid-’90s.

Nicole Kidman triumphs in this harrowing, though often funny, story of death, grief, mourning and a couple, previously apparently blissfully contented, coming apart.

Just where is Aniston’s career heading?

Jennifer Aniston loved working with "extremely dedicated" Aaron Eckhart.

A slight, fluffy and seen-it-all-before romance in which Zeta Jones and Eckhart play out an obvious opposites-attract love-hate plotline that goes nowhere in particular.

In the delicious comedy Thank You For Smoking (Fox, €24.99) you can’t help liking master of spin Nick Taylor (Aaron Eckhart), VP of the Academy of Tobacco Studies, despite his job as a spin doctor.

An engrossing telling of one of America’s most mysterious true-life murders, that of l940 wannabe actress Elizabeth Short who came to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune.

ACTRESS Scarlett Johansson put on a show of ’40s glamour last night in a throwback to the golden age of Hollywood.

The message remains clear: dump those ciggies.

A sex scene between Katie Holmes and Aaron Eckhart has been deleted from new movie Thank You For Smoking - leading insiders to claim her fiance Tom Cruise exerted his superstar influence to ensure its removal.

Possession star Aaron Eckhart was flooded by questions from his mother while he was making his new movie Paycheck because she wanted to know the low-down on his co-star Ben Affleck.

Here's a cheapjack attempt to make a romance in the fashion of The French Lieutenant's Woman - a sort of story within a story.