Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has climbed to the top of the British Film Institute’s poll of the greatest films ever made, dislodging Citizen Kane for the first time in 50 years.

There used to be a time when the clothes marching down the catwalks decided the ‘It colour’ of the season.

Uggie, the canine star of the Oscar-winning film 'The Artist', became the first dog to put its paw prints in cement outside the famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

"Are you sure you’re not a Russian spy or something?” The man asking me this knows full well I can’t be, but he sounds hopeful all the same. I’m in a coffee shop on Paul Street in Cork and two guys I know socially have been staring at me for the last half an hour. I can’t say I blame them. The last time they saw me I was a crop-haired brunette, now they’re talking to a platinum blonde.

A brochure advertising sex films created quite a stir amongst pharmacists, clergy and politicians, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Horror writer Stephen King’s first movie star crush was on Kim Novak in the film Picnic.