Vanessa Redgrave, Nathalie Baye, Kerry Fox, Ross Noble, Anna Friel, and Ben Wheatley are among the stars joining Irish talents Jack Reynor, Moe Dunford, Cillian Murphy, John Butler, and Aiden Gillen on the red carpet.

Hollywood actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Stewart, Bill Nighy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keira Knightley and Kristin Scott Thomas are among leading figures from the arts world backing a vote to remain in the EU.

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett joined the BFI Fellowship as she picked up the top accolade from actor Ian McKellen.

Run All Night ****

Actors Joan Collins, James Corden, and Sheridan Smith were among the actors included on the New Year’s Honours List.

Telly. Tonight.

Hollywood actress Dame Helen Mirren has revealed she was stopped from playing her latest role in French because American audiences do not like subtitles.

Barbara Scully rails against the notion that older females become invisible. What’s more, she has finally discovered her ‘inner creativity’.

Could this really be Lady Mary?

MUSIC NEWS: Back in April, Frank ‘Poncho’ Sampedro told Rolling Stone magazine that his band Crazy Horse were too old to tour with Neil Young.

YOU would think she had it all. But apparently not.

Dame Helen Mirren has won her first ever Olivier Award.

Dame Helen Mirren and Billie Piper will go head-to-head at this year’s Olivier Awards – while James McAvoy is in the running for Macbeth.

MUSIC NEWS: Lupe Fiasco is a brave man.

MUSIC NEWS: Lock up your children! David Guetta, and Example headline tonight’s dance event in Marlay Park, Dublin, and as we predicted in the wake of the Swedish House Mafia trouble, the powers that be are queuing up to get tough with those awful young people.

What I do: Jazz saxophonist and composer.

Declan Burke casts a critical eye over this week’s new releases

A socially awkward fisheries expert reels in a spirited soul-mate in Lasse Hallstrom’s unabashedly feel-good confection, based on the novel by Paul Torday.

Cusack is suitably woebegone as the poverty-stricken Poe, the expression in his melancholy eyes constantly vacillating from depression to rage and perhaps even madness, and he gets strong support from Luke Evans as the dogged Detective Emmet Fields and Brendan Gleeson as the scenery-chewing Colonel Hamilton, father of Poe’s love interest, Emily (Alice Eve).

Robert Pattinson hones the mournful pout of his vampire from the ‘Twilight’ saga in this tepid adaptation of the 19th century novel by Guy de Maupassant.

Theatrical legends Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod tell Pádraic Killeen about signing up Robert Pattinson to star in their screen debut

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Carey Mulligan has been cast in 'I Walk With the Dead'.

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Ewan McGregor is set for a starring role in 'Jack the Giant Killer'.

Andrew Garfield beat Oscar favourite Colin Firth to the best actor gong at tonight's Evening Standard British Film Awards and said it would "provide more fuel for my fire".

Carey Mulligan has been named the Best Dressed Woman of the Year.

That most English of actresses, the wonderful Kristin Scott Thomas, turns in a powerful and emotional rollercoaster of a performance in this quite excellent romantic drama, arguably the best of her career to date.

Cheryl Cole has been dazzling the papps at the Cannes Film Festival.

Three women who are old enough to claim their pensions appeared in a list of the 10 most beautiful women in the world, which was released today.

No stone, if you’ll pardon the pun, has been left unturned in the search for stories about The Beatles, so no surprise then that we have another … the story of the early years of the Fab Four and of the curious relationship between Lennon and his mother and aunt.

ACTOR Patrick Swayze’s Dirty Dancing co-star Jennifer Grey led tributes yesterday after he lost his two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.

Rhys Ifans is preparing to cast a little magic in the upcoming 'Harry Potter' movie after landing a role as a wizard in the film franchise's next instalment.

KATE WINSLET kept her composure — just — after finally winning an Oscar at the sixth attempt.

Kate Winslet kept her composure – just – after finally winning an Oscar at the sixth attempt.

'Slumdog Millionaire' cleaned up at the Baftas last night with seven gongs including Best Film.

Kristin Scott Thomas was baffled when Kate Winslet won a Golden Globe for 'The Reader', because her part was too big to be recognised as a supporting role.

Bafta-nominated Kate Winslet will walk the red carpet in London tonight for the European premiere of her movie 'Revolutionary Road'.

Double Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet was nominated twice today for a Leading Actress Bafta.

Kristin Scott Thomas and James McAvoy's actress wife Anne-marie Duff will star as John Lennon's aunt and mother in a story of the late Beatle's early life.

IRISH stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson were among the nominees for the Golden Globes announced yesterday, in a list of contenders led by Frost/Nixon and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

'Frost/Nixon' and 'The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button' led the nominees as the contenders for the Golden Globes were announced today.

Matteo Garrone's Italian mafia movie 'Gomorrah' swept the board at the European Film Awards in Copenhagen, Denmark - scooping five of the annual event's most prestigious gongs.

Dustin Hoffman, Clint Eastwood and Josh Brolin were among the stars honoured at this year's Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala in Los Angeles.