Just in case the regular schedules don't float your boat.

It was a little dispiriting to find that Martin Scorsese’s magisterial The Irishman was more discussed for its running time and the furore generated around the amount of dialogue portioned to Anna Paquin.

As we are a nation which loves a bet, it’s worth getting a price now on a film which sounds as though it’s one of our own sweeping the film awards in 2020.

Ray Liotta never planned to be an actor. He only signed up for drama classes in college in a bid to dodge the more academic subjects, and didn’t make his first film until he was 30.

Can these new releases tempt you from the Late Late Toy Show?

Musician and broadcaster Philip King is originally from Cork, but has been living on the Dingle peninsula for many years.

FESTIVAL TIME: All Together Now and Indiependence are among the events making the most of the bank holiday weekend, with strong line-ups over the next few days.

De Niro plays former hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran with Joe Pesci assuming the role of Russell Bufalin.

Des O'Driscoll has you covered for things to stream this June.

Netflix is adding a lot of adrenaline-fuelled shows to its summer roster, with a heap of action-packed thrillers arriving in June.

A few years ago a GAA club official was complaining to me about another sport, and its insidious hold on his players - its pernicious influence, its seductive siren song, tempting them away from righteousness.

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the entertainment world.

American director Alex Gibney was stunned by what he found for his documentary on the Loughinisland killings. It will be shown at Cork Film Festival, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Jake LaMotta, who died last month at the age of 95, wasn’t the best middleweight boxer of the late 1940s, though he did hold the world title in that division for two years.

Your home viewing entertainment wrap for the week ahead, with Des O’Driscoll.

Thinking of going to the cinema this week? Declan Burke reviews Patriots Day, A Cure for Wellness and George Best: All By Himself.

Here's your evening update.

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Finbar Furey is 70! We feel old.

There's no doubt that the name Martin Scorsese rings loudly in the halls of cinematic achivement.

Jude Law stars in The Young Pope on Sky Atlantic at 9pm on Sunday.

As the hype grows for Oasis: Supersonic, Declan Burke offers a personal selection of its predecessors in the genre

From unknown actor to best-selling novelist, Jessie Burton is still coming to terms with fame, she tells Hannah Stephenson

Kya deLongchamps takes a turn on vintage record players making sweet music in the collectables market at the moment.

Oscar-winning director Michael Cimino, whose film The Deer Hunter became one of the great triumphs of Hollywood’s 1970s heyday and whose disastrous Heaven’s Gate helped bring that era to a close, has died.

Vinyl was a new HBO show created by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger about the music business in the 70s. It had a big budget, creatives from Boardwalk Empire involved and a cast including Olivia Wilde, Juno Temple and Bobby Cannavale.

Many a famous face could be spotted shivering their way down the red carpet at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, rainclouds and Arctic chills becoming very unwanted guests indeed.

A host of famous faces will descend on the capital this weekend ahead of the eagerly anticipated Irish Film and Television Awards.

Take a trip back to the Golden Age of Hollywood with the Coen Brothers this week, while also enjoying over the top action in London and being more than a little freaked out by a future horror classic.

Juno Temple plays a starring role in the new Scorsese series on the crazy world of the New York music scene in the 1970s, writes Susan Griffin

Tommy Steele tells Ed Power about playing the big band legend, and how he was nearly typecast as a leprechaun

2015 is almost out, so it’s time to look to what the new year will bring in terms of