As the world’s most famous film festival kicks off, Helen Barlow selects some of the highlights

Ben Affleck is a busy fellow. Not only is he popping up as Batman in all of DCs movies this year, he's also hard at working on a solo Bat movie due out in 2018.

Jessica Szohr chose a white Diane von Furstenberg dress with snake-print details for the Hollywood premiere of War Dogs. 

The Legend of Tarzan 3/5

A young woman comes to LA with the hope of becoming a model.

Tarzan is back in an action packed new take on the classic story this week, and it's a quiet enough time at the cinema otherwise.

Through her acting and production work, Susan Sarandon is happy to help challenge the Hollywood patriarchy, writes Helen Barlow

Director Nicolas Winding Refn is following up the triumph of Drive and the.. ambivalence of Only God Forgives with another typically stunning looking film - The Neon Demon.

Kylie Jenner looked almost unrecognisable with blonde waves and black roots while sat front row at the Prabal Gurung show during New York Fashion Week. 

Elle Fanning showcased her brand new brunette hair at the premiere for The Boxtrolls in California. 

A Most Wanted Man *****

You are so very old.

Liv Tyler was sensational at the New York premiere of The Leftover in New York.

Angelina Jolie insists she has no plans to completely retire from acting.

Maleficent ****

Two Irish feature films are in the running for glory at Cannes Film Festival, while more than a dozen more are selling well at the festival’s market, Le Marché du Film.

Angelina Jolie said she has always been drawn towards villains rather than princesses, ahead of her latest role as Sleeping Beauty sorceress Maleficent.

The most booked models on the Fashion Week circuit had the waist circumference of a seven-year-old child (22 inches). Annmarie O’Connor explores the unwelcome return of the size zero debate.

Started in 1978 by Sundance himself Robert Redford, the Sundance Film Festival is a yearly gathering of movie folks in the snowy climes of Park City, Utah where deals are done and the indie (and not so indie) releases for the year are teased.

Vivienne Jolie-Pitt is earning $3,000 a week on her first acting job.

Frankenweenie ***

‘We Bought a Zoo’ opens with the voice of Dylan Mee (Colin Ford), narrating glimpses of his journalist father Benjamin's (Matt Damon) worldly adventures.

FIRST PYJAMAS, then underwear and now rollers — is there anything Irish girls won’t wear in public?

Daniel Radcliffe could be saying goodbye to Harry Potter with an award after he was nominated for a best actor gong for his role in the last instalment of the hit films.

Hugh Laurie's 'House' will end in April, it has been confirmed.

BABY you’re going to be a star — two-month-old Harper Seven Beckham has come top of a list predicting the celebrities of the future.

AS A young boy Steven Spielberg sent his toy trains crashing into one another, filming the result on 8mm home-movie film; Orson Welles once described making movies as the biggest electric train-set a boy ever had.

In this era of remakes and reboots, writer-director J.J. Abrams is here to introduce a third option: the throwback.

Twilight star Robert Pattinson sucked up the spotlight – and the popcorn-shaped trophies – at the MTV Movie Awards ceremony last night.

J.J. Abrams is worried no one will “care” about his new movie ‘Super 8’.

NARNIA is by any reckoning a strange place.

It could quite easily have been titled ‘Lost in Translation 2’ … since it comes from the writer and director of that original, breakthrough film, we see Coppola continuing to craft works well outside of the Hollywood mainstream and more towards the European mindset.

Val Kilmer is to play the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Twixt Now and Sunrise’.

The much-anticipated – and award/nomination festooned – film based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story finally arrives in a cinema near you … and absolutely nothing about it will disappoint.

The always-excellent Jeff Bridges delivers the goods once again in this solid drama of shattered dreams and a troubled family.