Oscar-winning director Michael Cimino, whose film The Deer Hunter became one of the great triumphs of Hollywood’s 1970s heyday and whose disastrous Heaven’s Gate helped bring that era to a close, has died.

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The Light House cinema in Dublin is hosting 9 horror classics for Halloween, including vampires, screams and nightmares

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STEVIE ‘G’ Grainger is a DJ on Red FM in Cork, and releases music on his Soul Jamz label. He’s bringing his Vinyl Love night to the Odessa in Dublin on March 22 in aid of marriage equality.

Culture bores suggest a movie simply can’t match the sensory experience provided by the depth and breadth of a novel, Declan Burke says Fifty Shades of Grey has already put the old canard to bed.

Norah Casey begins her new show Norah’s Traveller Academy on RTÉ2 on Thursday.

A new documentary looks at the reign of the King of the B-movies in Connemara, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Frank Sivero, the actor who played a mobster in the Martin Scorsese classic Goodfellas is suing Fox television show The Simpson for $250m (€197m), alleging that his likeness has been used for more than a decade without him being paid.

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Joss Whedon's inspiration behind 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron' comes from 'The Godfather Part II'.

JARVIS Cocker protégé, Serafina Steer, an accomplished English singer/songwriter and harpist, will perform her live re-score of Amer at the Cork Film Festival on Friday as part of a Giallo night at Triskel Christchurch.

They may scare you silly, but Irish horror movies should be taken seriously.

The Bram Stoker Festival celebrates the Dublin-born author of Dracula. This year, horror writer and film critic, Kim Newman, has curated a series of films for the festival.

ARDMORE Studios, which opened its doors as Ireland’s first film studio in May 1958, remains the physical heart of the Irish film industry. Having played host to more than 100 films, the original studios, situated on a 10-acre site, represented an investment of over £500m at the time.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are set to marry in their favourite place near Naples.

Twilight star Kristen Stewart’s latest film On The Road was given a low-key UK premiere tonight in the absence of its leading female.

In the wake of Henry Hill’s death, John Daly reflects on the greatest gangster film of all time, now 40 years old

Alec Baldwin is set to marry fiancee Hilaria Thomas at the end of the month.

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Al Pacino is set to make his animated film debut in 'Despicable Me 2'.

A LOVELORN John Travolta pining for Olivia Newton-John may not, at first glance, represent film at its dazzling zenith, but film buff Garry Mulholland begs to differ.

Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is going back to her roots, getting married today in the remote, southern Italian town where her great-grandfather was born.

Angelina Jolie is the latest celebrity to appear in Louis Vuitton's Core Values campaign.

Sofia Coppola will marry longterm boyfriend Thomas Mars this summer.

Al Pacino has joined the cast of 'Gotti: Three Generations' and will star alongside John Travolta, Kelly Preston and troubled actress Lindsey Lohan.

LIFE is fraught for Charlie Sheen.

WHILE the Oscars is an overblown act of worship of Hollywood by Hollywood, where the stars and directors are perceived as gods, the Cannes Film Festival is a bit more European.

YOU may have missed the show due to an offer you couldn’t refuse, or frankly (my dear) didn’t give a damn when it was out, but finally your secret has been uncovered.

Hollywood star Martin Sheen has described his troubled son Charlie’s struggle with addiction as a disease “as dangerous as cancer”.

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

Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t want to make big movies.

Oscar nominees Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan scooped the British Actor and Actress of the Year awards at the 30th Annual London Film Critics’ Circle Awards.

Actor Donal Donnelly has died

Michael Jackson’s ’Captain EO’ is moonwalking back to Disneyland.

APOCALYPSE NOW is the best film of the past three decades, critics said yesterday.

Kathleen Turner is adamant there is no bad blood between her and Nicolas Cage, despite their messy lawsuit last year.

Filmmakers have named big-screen classic 'The Godfather' their favourite movie of all time.

The first two 'Godfather' movies have been restored and are returning to the big screen.

Nicolas Cage is "extremely pleased" to have won a libel lawsuit against Kathleen Turner after she accused the actor of drink-driving and theft in her new autobiography.

Nicolas Cage has hit back after Kathleen Turner accused him of behaving like a diva when they starred in 1986 comedy 'Peggy Sue Got Married'.

Director Francis Ford Coppola's family was stunned he became a big star, because he grew up an ugly, untalented "black sheep".