The body which runs the Oscars has voted to expel Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski from its membership.

When we stay silent, we condone behaviour that none of us believe is right and it reinforces the culture that keeps women from speaking out, writes Lena Dunham

A French attorney has said he is aware of new allegations by a German woman who claims filmmaker Roman Polanski sexually assaulted her 45 years ago.

The recently departed editor of the hugely influential ‘Vanity Fair’, Graydon Carter will be hugely missed as one of a disappearing breed of fearless reportage, says Kyran Fitzgerald

Roman Polanski's sexual assault victim is expected to stand up for him in court to help put an end to the 40-year-old case.

Roman Polanski's lawyer has asked a Los Angeles judge to unseal testimony given by a former prosecutor who handled the fugitive director's sexual assault case.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is the ideal time to scare yourself with a good horror movie. Happy to oblige, Declan Burke lists the best horror movies of all time and, for good measure, throws in a list of the five most cursed film sets and five best scary movies for kids.  

Poland’s justice minister is reviving an effort to have filmmaker Roman Polanski extradited to the US, where he is wanted in a nearly 40-year-old case.

Poland will not extradite Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski to the US in an almost 40-year-old case after prosecutors declined to challenge a court ruling against it.

A court in Poland ruled that the law forbids the extradition of filmmaker Roman Polanski to the US, where he pleaded guilty nearly four decades ago to having sex with a minor.

Vincent Bugliosi — the prosecutor in the Charles Manson trial who went on to write best-selling true-crime book Helter Skelter — has died at the age of 80.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has appeared in a court in Poland for a hearing concerning a US request for his extradition charges of sex with a minor, a case that has haunted him since 1977.

Mathieu Amalric once spent time in Cork nursing a broken heart, but now the star is back on Leeside to present his new film writes Marjorie Brennan

Roman Polanski’s Polish lawyers want media barred from next week’s hearing on a US request for the film-maker’s extradition over 1977 charges of sex with a minor.

Russell Crowe is set to return to Irish shores next month — just in time for St Patrick’s Day.

A 26-year-old woman with the nickname Star who says she is going to marry 80-year-old mass murderer Charles Manson will have to wait a while longer.

Polish prosecutors have sent a request to extradite Roman Polanski to a regional court, saying the director’s Polish citizenship is not a legal obstacle to his extradition to the United States.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been questioned by a prosecutor in Poland concerning a US request for his extradition on 1977 sex charges.

Film-maker Roman Polanski has been questioned by a Polish prosecutor concerning a US request for his extradition on 1977 sex charges, an official said.

A Los Angeles judge has denied director Roman Polanski’s latest bid to have his 1977 sex case dismissed.

The revelation that serial killer Charles Manson is to wed has raised questions about prison marriages, conjugal visits, and the weird world of love behind bars, writes Connor Adams Sheets

Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her home and has spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.

Hollywood actress Anjelica Huston has revealed details about the day she caught director Roman Polanski with a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s home.

An adviser to the Polish president accused US authorities yesterday of "absolute ignorance" in seeking the arrest of film director Roman Polanski, a Holocaust survivor, while he was in Poland last week for the opening of a Jewish history museum.

An adviser to the Polish president has accused US authorities of “absolute ignorance” in seeking the arrest of film director Roman Polanski, a Holocaust survivor, while he was in Poland last week for the opening of a Jewish history museum.

Polish prosecutors said they had interviewed film-maker Roman Polanski over a US extradition request over a 1977 sex crime conviction, but decided not to detain him, the Polish state news agency reported.

Prosecutors in Poland have questioned film-maker Roman Polanski at the request of US prosecutors, who are seeking his extradition on charges from 1977 of having sex with a minor.

Herman Koch

Being the invisible artist brings its challenges, discovers Richard Fitzpatrick.

MARQUEE REPORT: Over the next week performers at Live at the Marquee in Cork include the Coronas (tonight), Nathan Carter (Sunday), Bob Dylan (Monday) and Tom Jones (Thursday).

How is it, asks Louise O’Neill, that men accused of heinous crimes continue to have careers, while women, in less trouble, are discarded in LA?

We'd all gotten over the whole Mia Farrow / Woody Allen / Soon Yi Previn thing.

The woman sexually assaulted by filmmaker Roman Polanski 36 years ago, when she was a girl of 13, has published her memoir, saying it was time to “take back ownership of my own story.”

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

'Only God Forgives', 'Behind the Candelabra' and 'Inside Llewyn Davis' will compete at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival.

MUSIC NEWS: Ex Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has announced the latest of his supergroup projects, the Sound City Players.

MUSIC NEWS: He hasn’t gone away, y’know.

In honour of Halloween, movie critic Declan Burke picks the best horror films of all time

In 1962, in response to escalating hostilities between North and South Vietnam, allies of Russia and America respectively, President John F Kennedy authorised the creation of the Navy SEALs.