In case you didn't know, Jurassic World is cinemas this coming weekend and those dinosaurs have stomped and roared and all but scared away and competition at the Irish box office.

The first episode of Sky's deafeningly-hyped Fortitude was a lumbering Frankenstein's monster, in which the random body parts of better, smarter TV shows were stitched together with little thought to aesthetics or coherence.

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A young British soldier is lost and alone on the streets of Belfast in 1971.

Game of Thrones could do for tourism in Northern Ireland what Lord Of The Rings has achieved for New Zealand.

Is the man or the iron the most important component of Iron Man asks Iron Man 3 (12A), and the makers — Shane Black directs, and co-writes with Drew Pearce — have tremendous fun answering that question.

THE Abbey Theatre is opening the national stage to emergent Irish writers during the coming months.

This week's pick of the flicks.

The shortlist for the 40 categories in the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards has been revealed this morning.

MUSIC NEWS: We mentioned last week that Johnny Marr had his debut solo album on the way for next year.

The remains of 10 murder victims found on New York’s Long Island are the work of a serial killer, police believe.

AN Irishman is leading the investigation into a suspected serial killer following the discovery of eight bodies buried on a Long Island beach in the north-eastern state of New York.

The number of victims of a suspected serial killer on New York's Long Island has doubled in the past week after the discovery of three more corpses along a remote beach highway.