Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter (The Thing, Escape from New York) landed in Dublin for one night only to play some of his most iconic scores live in front of a crowd at Vicar Street.

Stranger Things is on Netflix tomorrow, bringing plenty of supernatural stuff to the streaming service.

Stranger Things is a new Netflix show which releases on the 15th of July, and it's taking viewers back to the 80s.

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Green Room is an upcoming thriller from Jeremy Saulnier, and that's a name you're going to want to remember because its one of the best films of the year.

There's a prequel to The Huntsman out this week, minus a leading character, but the one we're most excited for is a crazy looking action film which all takes place from first person.

Midnight Special is the latest movie from director Jeff Nichols and sees him playing with a bigger budget for a unique sci fi tale

Consider yourself a bit of a movie buff? Ed Power has been poring through the latest book from the film critic that John Banville called “the greatest living writer on the movies”. In it, David Thomson shows the regular punter how to really watch a movie

Scream 2 star Sarah Michelle Gellar has led tributes to Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven, who has died aged 76.

A young woman tries to escape a mysterious curse.

A crash landing is leading to a crash course for two schools separated by thousands of miles of ocean in their different cultures and languages.

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IT’S like déjà vu all over again.

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IF SOMEONE said Hirwaun was a sleepy village in a southeast Asian country, you might believe it.

Luc Besson has produced Stephen St Leger and James Mather’s debut feature, hard-man flick Lockout, starring Guy Pearce, says Pádraic Killeen

In 1982, John Carpenter directed the science-fiction horror 'The Thing', which imagined a violent battle between humans and a parasitic life form with the ability to clone its prey.

THE perpetually hungry panda Po (voiced by Jack Black) returns in Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG), now a martial arts master and celebrated defender of the downtrodden and oppressed, along with the other members of the Furious Five, which includes Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan) and Mantis (Seth Rogen).

A MANIA for perfection drives ballerina Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) in Black Swan (US/16/107 mins), when she finally achieves her dream role, the White Swan, in Swan Lake.

Either Carpenter has lost his touch or simply couldn’t be bothered to put much thought into his films … or, since he was once the King of Horror, both.

One of my favourite horror films is John Carpenter’s Halloween. Unfortunately, Rob Zombie’s remake is truly uninspiring.

There seems – given the awfulness of this film – little point in re-working the John Carpenter cult horror classic.

‘Going to Pieces’ (Metrodome, €24.99) is an illuminating documentary that takes a close look at the slasher genre.

It’s the centenary of John Wayne’s birth, and among the many titles launched to mark the occasion is Rio Bravo Special Edition (Warner, 24.99) a classic Howard Hawks western, with Wayne playing Sheriff Chance, who is determined to hold a prisoner against a gang of desperadoes.

Kurt Russell has replaced Mickey Rourke as the sick killer in Quentin Tarantino's new horror film Grindhouse, according to internet reports.

It seems to be the week for special editions. John Carpenter’s Escape From New York SE (Momentum) is a fine action film, centring around Air Force One crashing into Manhattan, now a penal colony.

Rocker Alice Cooper has begged movie bosses to cast him as superspy James Bond's arch enemy in upcoming 007 movie Casino Royale.

THE 1978 film, Halloween, has been voted the best horror movie of all time.

The 1978 film Halloween has been voted the best horror movie of all time by UK viewers.

Back in the l960s, Bob Crane was the star of the TV series, Hogan's Heroes, about a group of Americans held in a German PoW camp. It was totally bereft of wit but it ran and ran and ran and was popular.

Retired police superintendent John Carpenter, who was on duty in Lockerbie on the night of the tragedy, said he was ‘‘absolutely delighted’’ on hearing the verdict.