LUCY FALLON, Coronation Street’s newest star, has her driving licence with her at all times. 

Muppets: Most Wanted ****

12 Years a Slave, Cate Blanchett, and Matthew McConaughey were among big winners at the Critics Choice Movie Awards, taking honours for best picture, actress, and actor.

The force of Gravity may be about to exert itself on Hollywood’s awards season when Academy Award nominations are announced today.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ****

A wanted burglar has been jailed after he admitted stealing a kayak and trying to paddle across one of the world’s busiest sea lanes to start a new life in France.

Robert Redford has confirmed he is to star in Captain America: The Winter Soldier' and he will play the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.

A Clare school has discovered its early intervention classes for dyslexia are proving a huge success, writes Oliver Moore

Robert Redford has slammed the use of 3-D technology in movies.

Robert Redford says Hollywood wasn't "risky" enough for him.

Robert Redford: The Biography

Shia LaBeouf is set to team up with Robert Redford for the political thriller 'The Company You Keep'.

Shia LaBeouf has signed up to star in ‘The Company You Keep’ with Robert Redford.

AN UNUSUALLY thoughtful film amid the brainless bluster of the summer’s blockbuster fare, The Conspirator (12A) stars Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, the woman who was accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War.

A film divided against itself cannot stand.

REMEMBER the bit in the old baseball movie ‘The Natural’ when the eponymous Robert Redford is lamenting his sorry past (he was shot by Barbara Hershey), beating himself up to Glenn Close?

GIVEN that it was Brian O’Driscoll’s 100th cap last Saturday, and all of a sudden everybody has a Brian O’Driscoll story, we thought we’d share ours.

Robert Redford, the 71-year-old actor, has tied the knot with his 51-year-old partner Sibylle Szaggars in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday.

Robert Redford once dumped a destroyed car in Paul Newman’s garden.

Robert Redford is to be honoured with the Peter J. Owens Award at the upcoming 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival in April.

Veteran actor Robert Redford is in talks to bring his Sundance Film Festival to the Middle East.

Robert Redford is looking forward to US President-elect Barack Obama's imminent inauguration more than most, because he can't wait to see "lame-duck" George W. Bush leave the White House.

Robert Redford may be 71 years old, but he’s showing no signs of slowing down just ye

Robert Redford and Russell Crowe have joined the growing number of actors urging a Hollywood union not to plan an actors strike next year.

Robert Redford tonight declared he was backing Barack Obama to be the next US President.

Hollywood actor, filmmaker and environmental campaigner Robert Redford is to visit Dublin next week, it emerged today.

Michael Bell is considering Saturday’s Doncaster winner Redford for the Britannia Handicap at Royal Ascot next week, a race he took a year ago with Eddie Jock.

Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with 'Tootsie' and period drama 'Out Of Africa', has died of cancer at 73, his agent said today.

'Lions for Lambs' (Fox; €24.99) is a dull, haphazard film directed by Robert Redford and starring Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise.

Robert Redford has finally committed to making new movie 'A Walk In The Woods', after the project was put on hold when Paul Newman announced his retirement.

British actor Rupert Everett has launched a scathing attack on Hollywood legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, branding them "tragic parodies" of the icons they once were.

Dustin Hoffman was convinced he'd be fired from the set of classic movie 'The Graduate'.

Dropped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, two American soldiers face the dilemma of what they believe in and why they’re where they are … while politicians back home play out their cynical games.

Veteran actor Robert Redford has defended allegations his Sundance Film Festival has become "too commercial" - insisting he cannot control party girls like Paris Hilton from attending.

Actor Tom Cruise struggled to act on the set of his latest film 'Lions for Lambs' because he was in awe of co-stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep.

Robert Redford has hinted he will marry his longterm girlfriend Sybille Szaggars.

Robert Redford hopes his new film about US military action in Afghanistan will encourage American youth to “take command of their voice”.

Robert Redford has dismissed the current generation of younger Hollywood stars as fame-obsessed, insisting many actors are "going into the business of themselves".

Robert Redford has defended Tom Cruise, insisting the Hollywood superstar's behaviour was perfectly normal on the set of their new movie.

Robert Redford has called on US leaders to apologise for the war in Iraq.

Veteran actor Paul Newman is in negotiations to reunite with his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid co-star Robert Redford for the last film of his illustrious career.

Some films can’t decide what they want to be … err, haven’t we been here before?

Check out the Screen Legends (Universal/Sony €35.49), each a four-disc collection on Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Robert Redford, James Stewart and Orson Welles.

One of my favourite westerns, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Fox, €24.99) introduced Paul Newman and Robert Redford as bank robbers who try to stay one step ahead of a chasing posse.