Jude Law stars in The Young Pope on Sky Atlantic at 9pm on Sunday.

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are set to team up again for a comedy that will take on the famed story of Sherlock Holmes.

MUSIC NEWS: After Body & Soul and Castlepalooza, the muddy fields of the midlands take a break from festival season this weekend. Probably for the best as Beyonce gets her Beyhive in Formation for a show that’s not quite sold out at Croke Park tomorrow.

Wreck-it Ralph was a big film for Disney, proving the that house of mouse had what it took to (almost) beat Pixar at its own game. Though they are the same company so really its all just more money for their coffers.

With a billionaire husband and lovely daughter, as well as an expanding career Salma Hayek really is happy with her lot, writes Helen Barlow.

You don't normally picture a celebrity doing something mundane.

When Colin Farrell and a host of Hollywood stars rolled into Sneem to make Oscar-tipped movie The Lobster, local people were happy to lend a hand. Some even got a part in the film, writes Eoin English.

Irish movie Room is beginning to generate some Oscar buzz after scooping a major award at the Toronto Film Festival.

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The Lobster is a dystopian sci-fi film shot in Kerry in 2014 with a bunch of big stars like Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C Reilly, Olivia Colman and Lea Seydoux. And it looks like just about the weirdest thing ever.

It was recently announced that The Lobster, which was shot in Co. Kerry, would be screening at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2015. And now we've got some more footage from the film. And boy does it look utterly bizarre.

Galway Film Fleadh

The films have been a mixed bag, but Don O’Mahony is enjoying the Cannes Film Festival

Deirdre Reynolds talks to indie actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes, who play a leading role in The Canal and who has scooped a Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

Gone Girl *****

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“A nice, clean, nasty piece of work — that’s what I’m looking for,” declares our eponymous anti-hero at the beginning of Hitchcock (12A).

Video games based on films allow audiences to put themselves in the thick of the action from their favourite Hollywood blockbusters and animated features. It’s a marriage made in merchandising heaven.

…about Lincoln star Daniel Day-Lewis.

Director Roman Polanski strips away the veneer of civility that supposedly separates man from beasts and reduces two well-to-do couples to snarling adversaries in this film version of the award-winning stage comedy 'God Of Carnage'.

From the moment it premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay’s bravura adaptation of the award-winning novel by Lionel Shriver has been generating awards buzz.

TILDA SWINTON is a very fine actress who has forged a career from playing cold, androgynous and cerebral characters, from Orlando (1992) to the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia, which suggests that she’s perfectly cast as Eva in We Need To Talk About Kevin (16s).

The film of Lionel Shriver’s award-winning novel about teen spree killer Kevin examines parental responsibility and nature versus nurture, says Caroline Delaney.

THE most memorable scene in Carnage, Roman Polanski’s new film, belongs to Oscar-winner Kate Winslet.

POPSTAR Madonna thanked her ex-husbands for encouraging her to take up a career in movies, as she arrived in Venice for the world premiere of her lavish royal drama WE.

Katie Holmes has signed up to star in a new independent comedy film set in New York.

Based on a Japanese horror, this is an example of Hollywood losing the plot in translation.

CHICAGO is the story of showgirl Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger), who shoots her lover and tries to get her husband Amos (John C Reilly) to cover for her. When she is found out she is locked up under corrupt matron Mama Morton, played superbly by Queen Latifah.

John C Reilly, who co-starred in three of this year’s five Oscar-nominated films, has picked his next project after sifting through a stack of offers.

Hollywood was gearing up for the Oscars today but war with Iraq means the ceremony will be a strangely muted affair.

IRISH actor Daniel Day-Lewis and U2 are among the nominees for this year’s Oscars.

The big Hollywood musical, feared long dead by fans of the hoofers, is back ... with a bang!

Jennifer Aniston is moving away from her glamorous TV image in a new film.