Actor Emile Hirsch put a studio executive in a chokehold and dragged her across a nightclub table during the Sundance Film Festival, police have said.

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It’s set in modern Pennsylvania, but there’s an Old Testament quality to the imagery of fire in Out of the Furnace (15A).

Matthew McConaughey has a well-deserved reputation for being a beefcake who likes to take his shirt off in front of a camera, but his role as Killer Joe (18s) suggests that he has much more to offer than pecs appeal.

'The Dullest Hour' would be a more fitting summation of Chris Gorak’s special effects-laden thriller, which witnesses a devastating alien attack from the perspective of five young people trapped in Moscow.

DID Steven Spielberg really intend ET (1982) to be read as a Christ-like figure?

GEORGE CLOONEY’S third directorial effort, The Ides of March, and Madonna’s second, WE, are bound for the Venice Film Festival, so the paparazzi should be out in force.

Lindsay Lohan has cancelled her birthday party, it has emerged.

Once again Lee captures a defining moment in American, and subsequently world, history with

In this season of gong hand-outs comes a truly wonderful performance from Penn as the Harvey Milk of the title, the first openly gay to achieve elected office – as a city supervisor – in San Fransisco in l977.

Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a demon behind the wheel of the sleek Mach 5 designed by his father John Goodman.

Drew Barrymore has sparked new romance rumours after she was spotted smooching 'Gossip Girl' star Ed Westwick at a recent Kings of Leon concert in New York.

One for the kiddies, and for those who can’t live a second without the sound of a snarling bike … just don’t expect a film that tells a story that can be believed.

Sean Penn and the Coen brothers were among the nominees for a prestigious film director's award which is seen as a barometer for the Oscars.

THE road-trip drama Into the Wild received a leading four Screen Actors’ Guild Awards nominations yesterday, including honours for lead actor Emile Hirsch and supporting players Hal Holbrook and Catherine Keener.

Road-trip drama 'Into the Wild' received four Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations today.

Penn, taking a true story about a man (Hirsch) who gives everything up to seek a new life in the wilderness, fashions a curious, yet endlessly fascinating, film of great visual beauty and deep human understanding.

Justin Timberlake is surprisingly good in ‘Alpha Dog’ (Icon, €24.99).

Busy times for singer and former Britney Spears squeeze Justin Timberlake, this is one of three new films.

A film about, if it’s about anything, skateboarding in all its manifestations.

Pop star Justin Timberlake's controversial new movie Alpha Dog is set for series of reshoots after the real-life fugitive the film is based on was captured last month.

Justin Timberlake's movie career is really taking off - he has signed up to play a drug lord in Nick Cassavetes' new film Alpha Dog.

The Girl Next Door stars Emile Hirsch, as Matt, a goody-goody high school senior with good grades and the world seemingly at his feet.