The cast is back for Alice Through the Looking Glass, and it's looking even more mental this time around. George Clooney is up in a drama from director Jodie Foster and there's a comedy shot in Ireland called Love and Friendship.

The summer movie season is almost upon us, with blockbusters galore, and some of them don't even have superheroes in them. Not many we'll admit... here's looking at you Independence Day!

Check out our guide to tonight's best TV.

A young woman marries a mysterious Englishman and returns to his isolated house.

She’s feisty, but she’s her own woman, writes Susan Griffin of the actress and model about to

Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak was given an R-rating. And its latest trailer hints at why that is the case.

An aging actress pursues the role which made her mother famous while a young woman comes back to Hollywood searching for something she lost…

Robert Pattinson and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini have become the latest celebrities to take up the ice bucket challenge.

MUSIC NEWS: The big issue among the music world’s chattering classes this week has been the announcement of Metallica’s headline slot at Glastonbury.

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Tune into BBC1 at 10.35pm tonight as Graham Norton is joined by Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe, screen siren Cameron Diaz, and comic actor and director Richard Ayoade. Plus music from the queen of pop, Kylie Minogue.

Helena Bonham Carter is coming back for the 'Alice in Wonderland' sequel.

'The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug' leads the Jameson Empire Film Award nominations.

A New York Winter’s Tale ***

Benedict Cumberbatch has quit Benicio del Toro's 'Crimson Peak'.

Johnny Depp will star in an 'Alice in Wonderland' sequel.

Baz Luhrmann’s 3D extravaganza The Great Gatsby, one of the year’s most eagerly anticipated films, will open the Cannes Film Festival tonight.

There’s always a faint whiff of hypocrisy when Hollywood’s millionaires gather to make a movie about the pernicious evil that is money, but Arbitrage (15A) works hard to earn itself the right to a fair hearing.

Nicole Kidman will never have Botox again.

Anna Karenina, 3/5

There's an allure to imperfection. With his latest drama ‘Lawless’, director John Hillcoat taps directly into the side of human nature that draws us to it.

Mia Wasikowska thinks good parts for young people are "rare".

Don O’Mahony looks at the main contenders for the big prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Hundreds of film fans flooded the streets of Cannes tonight to cheer the cast of new prohibition era film 'Lawless' as they arrived for its premiere.

When you start arguing with yourself as to whether the Incredible Hulk’s motivations are entirely in character, it’s all over: the Dark Side has won.

Behind every great man, there is supposedly a great woman.

TERENCE MALICK’S return to the fray was one of the highlights of 2011’s film year.

AT the moment, there’s just no stopping Michael Fassbender.

MIA WASIKOWSKA brings a luminous quality to the supposedly plain heroine of Jane Eyre (12A), but that’s one of the few caveats worth mentioning in relation to Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel.

At the moment, there’s just no stopping Michael Fassbender.

Tilda Swinton is to swap her teeth for fangs for a new vampire film.

From film to fashion, movies to music, food to travel, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the summer ahead.

Leonardo DiCaprio is 2010's highest-grossing actor.

HOLLYWOOD actress Glenn Close has revealed it was her dream to make her latest movie in Dublin.

Hollywood actress Glenn Close has revealed it was her dream to make her latest movie in Dublin.

Emma Stone has been offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in the new 'Spiderman' movie.

‘Alice in Wonderland’ has taken more than $1bn (€810m) at the international box office.

One of cinema’s most-filmed stories is updated by Burton in magnificent manner – as only he can – by sending the now 19-year-old Alice (Wasikowsky) back to Wonderland, there to meet up again with her odd-ball friends and battle the evil Red Queen (Bonham-Carter).

Tim Burton was confused working with the green screen on 'Alice in Wonderland'.

Mia Wasikowska found acting in 'Alice in Wonderland' tough.

A LAST-minute deal finalised on the day of its British premiere ensures that Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland will make it to all Irish cinemas.

Tim Burton based the White Queen from 'Alice in Wonderland' on Nigella Lawson.