Dustin Johnson has the slow walk, the bristled jaw and the gunslinger’s eyes of a Sergio Leone bounty hunter.

THE path of true parenting rarely runs smooth. So when last week myself and Ciara had a rare moment of pater et mater harmonium we were a little tickled.

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Interpol get a hard time for sounding a lot like Interpol. The charge is that, after several engaging albums, the New Yorkers are slouching towards creative dotage, regurgitating a grab-bag of tics and tropes: clanging guitars, brooding melodies, Ian Curtis-esque singing from frontman Paul Banks.

Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, has died.

John Michael McDonagh puts a gun-toting priest at the heart of new film ‘Calvary’, says Alan O’Riordan

The Spaghetti Western Orchestra recreate the soundtracks of Italy’s legendary film composer, says Richard Fitzpatrick

DANIEL Craig fantasised about being a cowboy when he was a boy, and for longer than he ever dreamed of becoming James Bond.

IRISH cycling legend Stephen Roche was back in the saddle last night to power a projector at the launch of one of the country’s most exciting film festivals.

IT’S that time of year when the British music industry is whipping itself into a state of apoplectic excitement at the prospect of a new batch of pop contenders sweeping all before them.

IAN RUSH couldn’t settle in Italy; the Welsh striker said it was like living in a foreign country. But San Nicola — the patron saint of Bari — is, they say, a friend to travellers and up to 6,000 Irish soccer fans were certainly making themselves at home in the coastal city yesterday.

Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns helped reinvent a tired genre and introduce the world to Clint Eastwood, the Man With No Name. — Fistful of Dollars SE and For a Few Dollars More SE form part of the famed Eastwood/Leone trilogy (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was the third) and are well worth adding to your collection.

The American Film Institute has honoured Robert De Niro with its 31st Life Achievement Award.

Clint Eastwood briefly returned to his role as the Man With No Name in Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, to help restore 14 minutes of footage to the classic, 1966 spaghetti Western.

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is getting better, badder and uglier, with 14 minutes of newly-restored footage.

Francis Ford Coppola’s brutal Vietnam classic Apocalypse Now was today named the greatest film of the past 25 years by movie experts.