It seems pop culture names like Arya and Cataleya are the breakout names in the US this year, but Irish people should think twice before scoffing.

CORK Cine Club’s latest programme runs from Oct 11-Dec 13 at its new venue, St John’s Central College in Cork city. With screenings of art house films and documentaries every Thursday night, the season kicks off with Even The Rain, directed by Iciar Bollain. This socially aware film is about a production team in Bolivia making a controversial film about Christopher Columbus. Meanwhile, a local uprising against water rates takes place.

Gay Byrne begins a new series of The Meaning Of Life on Tuesday at 10.15pm on RTÉ One with an interview with Mary McAleese.

MUSIC NEWS: Ireland is to lose another record shop with the closure on Sunday of Dolphin Discs on Talbot Street in Dublin.

Set for the most part in — and over — Italy during WWII, Red Tails (12A) concerns itself with a crew of African-American pilots who are considered inferior to their white peers when it comes to engaging the enemy in battle.

From film to fashion, movies to music, food to travel, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the summer.

Gael Garcia Bernal is to play Zorro in a new re-imagining of the franchise.

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Gael Garcia Bernal is set to play legendary boxer Roberto Duran in a new biopic.

BULLIED in High School for being a geek, Marni (Kirsten Bell) has reinvented herself as high-powered publicist by the time her older brother Will (James Wolk) decides to get married.

In many ways 'Mammoth' is about a monster … the modern world we live in and often can’t quite cope with. It’s a story about the demands of living in a world of global pressures and the resulting family pressures and values.

To fair Verona we go for a light and fluffy romance built around the world’s most famous love story, 'Romeo and Juliet', and the thousands of letters written by the lovelorn and left in the wall at the fictional Juliet’s home, with the fictional balcony.

Amanda Seyfried began the rumour about a second ‘Mamma Mia!’ movie.

La Roux singer Elly Jackson thinks Beyonce is stunningly attractive, but insists she finds both men and women sexy.

Gael Garcia Bernal says his new movie ‘Mammoth’ is “provocative”.

Not all films manage to bring sport across convincingly and football is the one sport that suffers badly, somehow it just can’t truly be captured on screen (from the dramatic point of view at any rate).

IN the face of economic crisis, we have seen what is achievable when countries unite in a common cause. But with the world at the brink of ecological disaster and millions of poor people already living on the frontline of climate change, it is essential that this ambition be heightened as world leaders meet at the UN climate negotiations in Poland.

John Malkovich is so touched by the plight of migrant children who cross illegally into the United States that he plans to make a documentary about it.

The annual Spanish Film Festival, which opens today, will showcase work from Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay.

Natalie Portman is planning to quit acting to have children, describing motherhood as "the greatest thing I can aspire to".

Gael Garcia Bernal plays an insecure artist, Stephane, trying to woo Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in ‘The Science of Sleep’ (Warner, €24.99).

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu made his name with 21 Grams, and in Babel (Paramount, €24.99) he teams up with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga to produce a heady and somewhat baffling work.

Too many images, too much tumbling of visual delights – however much they captivate and astound – mars what is otherwise as fine a film as has come our way in months.

GORDON Brown has made it into a list of the world’s 100 sexiest men — with the top place handed to Take That.

As complex a story – several stories indeed – as you’d expect from Inarritu, involving a shooting in Morocco, a Stateside ‘kidnapping’ to Mexico and a troubled teenager in Japan.

Star wars star Natalie Portman is back with her ex-boyfriend Gael Garcia Bernal.

Brad Pitt has sent a message to fans about the “imminent arrival” of his new baby.

A harrowing, though quite stunningly made, tale of a family in crisis … with a son with a dark past, a minister father who disowns him, a murder and more dark secrets.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined hands to form a human band around Scotland’s capital today in protest at world poverty.

Kate Winslet has a double shot at Bafta glory after landing two best actress nominations.

HANG onto your seats as we follow Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (the brilliant Gael Garcia Bernal) in The Motorcycle Diaries.

Star Wars beauty Natalie Portman has dumped her good-looking boyfriend Y tu Mama Tambien star Gael Garcia Bernal.

Viggo Mortensen is set to star in the Spanish language drama, Alatriste.

Chelsea fooball club is now the leading contender to feature in Goal! a trilogy of football films being developed by British entrepreneur Mike Jeffries with US producer Lawrence Bender.

The Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is in talks to play the leading role in Goal! A planned trilogy of films about a young footballer’s rise to stardom.