A Monster Calls is a new film set to arrive in Irish cinemas on the 1st of January 2017. It's the tale a boy and his monster, based on the award-winning book by Patrick Ness and it's a pretty wonderful spectacle.

Declan Burke gives his thoughts on this week's films. 

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has been labelled the “ultimate Star Wars fan film” amid international reception ahead of its release.

A role in the new Star Wars instalment is the latest step up the acting ladder for Felicity Jones, writes Gemma Dunn

File this look under ‘When Bad Pants Happen To Good People’. The cuffs are awful. 

* Inferno 3/5

In case you thought those Dan Brown adaptations had gone away, Tom Hanks is back with another one this week. There's also the very indie American Honey and some animated fun with the Storks.

Star Wars Battlefront's Death Star DLC, which will be released in September, will add Chewbacca as a playable hero.

Liam Neeson has the right voice for his latest film A Monster Calls, and the trailer looks like a spectacular adaptation.

Remember when everyone in the whole world and their mother was reading The DaVinci code? Well that was way back in 2003 when the book first launched, followed by a movie starring Tom Hanks in 2006.

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.

A Disney source said: "So many characters' back-stories and futures can now be brought to life."

Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany could still land a part in an upcoming Star Wars movie, with her name on the shortlist for Episode VIII

The Star Wars universe is getting much bigger, and now we have some new details.

British broadcaster and film critic Barry Norman has dismissed Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony as “little better than a crapshoot”.

Scarlett Johansson looked extremely cool in this Preen minidress at the G’Day USA Gala in Los Angeles. 

Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne are among the presenters at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.

The Theory of Everything co-stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones toasted their success separately in Los Angeles when the Bafta nominations were announced in London.

Famous for playing the role of the superhero Birdman (15A), aging actor Riggan Thomas (Michael Keaton) tries to reinvent himself as a serious artist by directing and starring in a Broadway production of an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short stories.

A movie actor attempts to resuscitate his career in Birdman, Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are destined for Oscar nominations in heart-rending biopic The Theory of Everything, and a vengeful spirit returns to terrorise a class of evacuees in The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.

Eddie Redmayne is being tipped for an Oscar for his role as Stephen Hawking, says Keeley Bolger

Stephen Hawking’s ex-wife has told how the physicist’s fame and success damaged their relationship.

Birdman has topped the nominations for the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nods, including best picture in the comedy or musical category.

Birdman squawked loudly at the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nominations.

Benedict Cumberbatch has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards.

KANYE WEST has taken KIM KARDASHIAN on a surprise holiday for her 34th birthday.

Felicity Jones has hinted she will play the Black Cat in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'.

Keira Knightley is in talks to star in 'Jack Ryan'.

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.

Hawaii isn’t paradise, real estate agent Matt King (George Clooney) tells us as The Descendants (15A) begins, because despite all the sunshine and palm trees, Hawaiians have the same problems as everyone else.

Falling in love is just as frighteningly easy as falling out again in Drake Doremus’s low-budget romance ‘Like Crazy’.

The shorts and documentary strands again produced the main highlights of the Corona Cork Film Festival, says Carl Dixon

ORPHANED when his mother dies, Boston teenager Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormwald) moves to a small Midwest town to live with his uncle in Craig Brewer’s remake of Footloose (12A).

A romantic little film that doesn’t trouble the grey cells too much but still manages to be charmingly entertaining, though the lack of sustained wit precludes the description of it being a comedy.

A sweet tale set around the Wigan soul scene of the 1970s, with several well-realised and acted characters and a storyline, rich in period authenticity, that, alas, runs out of steam towards its disappointing end … but the journey is still worth the effort.

Cemetery Junction (Cert 15, 90 mins, Comedy/Drama/Romance)

Ricky Gervais, with his writing partner on 'The Office', tags this film as his first move away from comedy into drama, and it might well be that his reputation as an original and inventive writer of funny scripts hampers us from seeing him as anything else.

Once the golden boy of Hollywood, handsome actor Joe Scott (Daniel Craig) has fallen out of favour, seduced by a hedonistic lifestyle of sex, booze and narcotics.