Irish actor Jack Reynor has joined the cast of Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming film about the 1967 Detroit Riots.

Maureen Dowd on why Tinseltown’s toxic brew of fear and sexism is keeping women out of the top jobs

Dáithí O Sé presents the Rose of Tralee on RTÉ One on Monday and Tuesday.

Ah the 90s - when hair was big and it was still ok to have action films with actual blood and swearing in them.

Now that the Britannia Awards are televised, viewers can see Sacha Baron Cohen knock an 87-year-old woman out of her wheelchair.

James Gandolfini’s portrayal of criminal Tony Soprano in the landmark drama series The Sopranos was just one facet of an actor who created a rich legacy of film and stage work in a life cut short.

Are you looking forward to the 'reboot' of 1991 classic Point Break? Neither are we…

CIA thrillers 'Argo' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' won top screenplay honours from the Writers Guild of America last night.

Daniel Day-Lewis’s domination of the awards season is expected to continue at the Baftas tonight, where he is hot favourite to win the Best Actor award.

Daniel Day-Lewis's domination of the awards season is expected to continue at the Baftas tomorrow, where he is hot favourite to win the Best Actor award.

Opening early in 1865, as the American Civil War is entering its endgame, Lincoln (12A) offers a detailed account of how recently re-elected president Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) rammed the 13th constitutional amendment — the emancipation of the slaves — through Congress.

SATURDAY

The political brouhaha that continues to dog Kathryn Bigelow’s dramatisation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden might have cost her an Oscar nomination.

Jessica Chastain admits making 'Zero Dark Thirty' was "intense".

The Iran hostage thriller 'Argo' was a surprise best-drama winner at the Golden Globes, beating out the Civil War epic 'Lincoln', which had emerged as an awards-season favourite.

The American Civil War saga Lincoln leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honours for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones.

Historical biopic Lincoln leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with 10 nominations including best picture and best actor — but nothing for director Steven Spielberg.

From movies to music, film to food, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the year ahead. Mark your diaries...

Three top US senators, including John McCain, the former White House hopeful, slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt film for suggesting torture helped find the al Qaeda chief.

IN the final scene of Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s heart-stopping thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Maya, a CIA operative and the movie’s heroine, is strapped into a seat on a military transport plane staring into the middle distance, looking depleted.

Steven Spielberg’s US Civil War epic Lincoln led the Golden Globes with seven nominations, among them best drama, best director for Spielberg, and acting honours for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones.

SATURDAY

For a silent movie, The Artist is generating a lot of noise.

Jessica Chastain is set to star in Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden death movie.

The Pentagon is looking into concerns that the Obama administration may have given a Hollywood filmmaker too many details about the secret mission last May in which Osama bin Laden was killed.

OSAMA BIN LADEN’s death is blockbuster news for Hollywood, whose attempts to dramatise the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have largely bombed.

Kathryn Bigelow is working on a movie about the death of Osama bin Laden.

THE Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of The Hurt Locker are asking a judge to dismiss an Iraq war veteran’s lawsuit alleging the film is based on him.

The final preparations for the Baftas are under way with more than 1,000 canapes being prepared, 540 magnums of champagne being put on ice and some of the biggest names in showbusiness getting ready to walk the red carpet.

BRITISH movie The King’s Speech is expected to reign at the Baftas after topping the nominations list for the film awards.

Tom Hanks has signed up to star in ‘Triple Frontier’.

Johnny Depp is in talks to star in 'Sleeping Dogs'.

Tom Hanks is in talks to star in 'Sleeping Dogs'.

James Cameron wants to work on other projects before 'Avatar 2'.

James Cameron thinks ‘The Hurt Locker’ would have been better in 3D.

Sigourney Weaver has blasted Academy Awards' voters for giving Kathryn Bigelow the Best Director accolade at this year's Oscars.

Film director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar triumph has had an instant effect on her movie’s fortunes with one rental firm reporting demand more than doubling in a matter of hours.

KATHRYN BIGELOW played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker to the screen.

Kathryn Bigelow today celebrated winning a place in Oscars history after becoming the first woman to be named best director while her Iraq war drama 'The Hurt Locker' landed best film.

Kathryn Bigelow thinks her ex-husband James Cameron is an "extraordinary filmmaker".

Dubliner Richard Baneham has won an Oscar for his work on visual effects on 'Avatar', but it was director Kathryn Bigelow and 'The Hurt Locker' who emerged as the victors from the battle of the blockbusters at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night.

The Oscars kicked off today with a string of gags from hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin at the expense of the cream of Hollywood.

All eyes at tonight's Oscars will be on the showdown between 'Avatar' and 'The Hurt Locker'. Each has nine nominations.

The Harlem drama 'Precious' won five prizes last night at the Spirit Awards honouring independent film, including best picture and trophies for stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique and director Lee Daniels.