God’s Pocket (15A) is a hardscrabble, blue-collar neighbourhood infested with grifters and thieves.

X-Men: Days of Future Past ★★★★

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Sigourney Weaver is to reunite with Ridley Scott for biblical epic 'Exodus'.

Woody Allen is to play an ageing escort in 'Fading Gigolo'.

Jeff Bridges loves to be called "The Dude" in the street.

'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' has made $1bn worldwide.

AN UNUSUALLY thoughtful film amid the brainless bluster of the summer’s blockbuster fare, The Conspirator (12A) stars Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, the woman who was accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War.

If ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ is indeed Michael Bay's final entry in the Hasbro toy-inspired franchise, as he has repeatedly intimated, then it is a fitting swan song for a director whose lust - and gift - for spectacle remains unmatched.

If Pixar could ever be said to have a black sheep, it would be 2006's ‘Cars’.

Jeff Bridges wants to make a second 'Big Lebowski' movie.

John Travolta has thanked his co-stars for helping him grieve the death of his son.

John Travolta has thanked his colleagues from 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3' for promoting the film while he continued to mourn the death of his 16-year-old son Jett.

There’s a half decent story hiding in here somewhere but it never manages to find a way out.

Those clever TV ads in which a car becomes a skating robot have made the move to the big screen in what turns out to be a surprisingly good sci-fi yarn.

While this is an interesting film – De Niro’s return to directing since the early l990s – it’s hard to figure out if it’s a docu-dram or a thriller. It makes for a better former.

John Turturro’s Romance & Cigarettes (Icon, €21.99) is a scintillating domestic drama with some cracking moments.

Turturro has always been a quirky kind of guy, both as a director and actor, and here he comes up with a musical romance the like of which you’ll not encounter in a long time.

She may have the face of an English rose – but Kate Winslet is anything but, according to the director of her latest film.

One from the Robert Altman School, a solid ensemble piece packed with off-beat characters and their multi-strength collections of hang-ups.

This one, from a Stephen King short story, won't disturb the dozing gray cells, though it's mildly satisfying in an unsatisfying way.

Christopher Walken and Mary Louise Parker have signed up for the latest film to be directed by John Turturro.

Adam Sandler films, tagged as comedies, have usually been fairly charmless affairs in which Sandler appears as Sandler, does his best, trousers the cheque and moves on.

Actress Kate Winslet is to star in a Hollywood musical, it was announced today.

Mr Deeds (Adam Sandler) is a happy young man living a quiet little life in a quiet little town. Then he inherits $40 billion from a great uncle he’s never met. He heads to New York to claim his new-found fortune and to sell his great uncle’s company to its CEO. He soon discovers that life in the Big Apple is very different from Mandrake Falls.

Adam Sandler is an acquired taste - and Gary Cooper he 'aint!

The Coen Brothers are to produce the new musical film, Romance And Cigarettes.