The rude health of the film industry in this country is underlined by the presence of 10 Irish offerings at the prestigious festival, writes Esther McCarthy

Two men who ran an escort agency in England which employed young girls from troubled backgrounds as child prostitutes have been jailed.

The new Universal monster movie franchise is already attracting heaps of talent and the latest to sign on is Javier Bardem.

KEVIN Costner is having trouble hearing. “I play a lot of rock and roll. You’ll have to speak up,” explains the California native in what can only be described as a cowboy twang.

Frankenstein’s monster is a Hollywood horror icon, but Paul McGuigan’s Victor Frankenstein (12A) attempts to give Mary Shelley’s tale a fresh spin. 

Today's TV is a must for sports fans.

Marketing movies is a funny old game. Take the first promos for upcoming flick Victor Frankenstein. It's been in the works for quite a while now and stars James McAvoy as the doctor and Daniel Radcliffe as his helper Igor.

Ian McKellen has used twitter as well as his amazing writing ability to pay a final tribute to his friend and co-star Christopher Lee who passed away earlier this week.

Chang Ying-Tai (translated by Darryl Sterk)

The first episode of Sky's deafeningly-hyped Fortitude was a lumbering Frankenstein's monster, in which the random body parts of better, smarter TV shows were stitched together with little thought to aesthetics or coherence.

As one Cabinet Minister put it: "Jaysus Eric, I think our cover’s been blown."

The spoiler-free guide to the things appearing on your audiovisual receiving box.

A bang of the tooth on a pearl, a sharp sniff at the Bakelite with loupe pinched to the eyeball — you can tell a seasoned collector at a fair or antique viewing by the intimate way in which they inspect a potential purchase.

The Great Irish Bake Off is back, and a week of coverage from Chelsea will have gardeners drooling

Reeve Carney is to play Jeff Buckley, who drowned in 1997, in a planned biopic, says Richard Fitzpatrick

I Frankenstein, an action fantasy thriller based on Kevin Grevioux’s graphic novel, hits the big screen next week. Mary Shelley’s nameless ‘fiend’ is now Adam Frankenstein, played by Aaron Eckhart.

From food to fashion, movies to music, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the year ahead.

The Voyage

David Gest has been diagnosed with a tumour in his neck.

'Skyfall' director Sam Mendes is working on a new TV series.

Looking for something creatively creepy to do this Halloween? Pól Ó Conghaile scours the country for a round-up of mid-term’s most macabre events...

Hit and Run ****

'Hotel Transylvania' is studded with big names — but no amount of star power and 3D effects can rescue this monster movie from its one dimensional cast of ghouls and derivative overprotective father plot-line.

Daniel Radcliffe is set to star in a new adaptation of 'Frankenstein'.

Blink 182 are recording new material.

Ex-horror star Christopher Lee is 90 on Sunday, but the actor shows no sign of retiring, says Suzanne Harrington

Bee The Book: Farm Friends by Debora and Hilary Tobin, is a big, interactive book to share with three- to four-year-olds.

Eddie Izzard is set to join a remake of 'The Munsters'.

Even while defying modern filmmaking techniques with a monochromatic palette and soundscape of silence, 'The Artist' is as conventional as they come.

A scouting trip to France led to a eureka moment for Paul Flynn when he abandoned crispy pancakes for fancy chicken. He tells Joe McNamee about a new challenge

BEHIND all the slick explanations interspersed with some orchestrated craw-thumping on behalf of Neil Prendeville, only Claire O’Sullivan realises what is truly at stake (Irish Examiner, November 4/6).

DOCTOR Craig Venter’s bold step in the enduring quest to create artificial life has produced a living cell powered by manmade DNA.

AN American biologist has stepped into the shoes of Baron Frankenstein by breathing life into a bacterium using genes assembled in the laboratory.

CRUFTS dog show started yesterday amid claims pedigree breeders are “creating a Frankenstein’s monster of a dog”.

Brad Pitt and Matt Damon will voice characters in ‘Happy Feet 2’.

Paul O’Grady makes an emotional farewell as his teatime Channel 4 chat show comes to an end – describing it as “the best job in my life”.

Shareholders overwhelmingly voted in favour of Lloyds Banking Group’s UK record £13.5bn (€14.8bn) cash call today.

HE is a freakish sight worthy of Frankenstein’s laboratory — but this, researchers claim, is Britain’s perfect pet.

He is a freakish sight worthy of Frankenstein’s laboratory – but this, researchers claim, is the perfect pet.

Scarlett Johansson could be set to star in a remake of 'The Bride of Frankenstein'.

Secret emails released in Britain today under the Freedom of Information Act cast fresh light on the concerns within the intelligence agencies over the British government’s notorious dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

Two spacewalking astronauts attached 11ft arms to the international space station’s huge new robot today, preparing the giant machine for its handyman job on the orbital outpost.

TONY Blair, the man who dubbed Diana the “People’s Princess”, was today accused of being part of an alleged conspiracy to murder her.

A daring theft of National Wax Museum figures will not stop next month’s re-opening of the tourist attraction, it emerged today.