You don’t start off clasping your hands behind your back but suddenly there it is, says Colm O’Regan.

With awards season looming, actors, actresses, and directors all across tinsel town are busy buying ball gowns, dry-cleaning tuxedos, and practising the humblest of acceptance speeches. The hotly anticipated Golden Globes take place tomorrow, while Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday. As two of the highest accolades associated with the movie industry, any film that makes the shortlist for either should be at the top of your must-watch list. To help you along, Kelly O’Brien compiled our Magnificent Seven — a selection of films tipped for Golden Globes and Oscars glory

Tim Roth was one of the old stalwarts Quentin Tarantino teamed up with for his upcoming western, The Hateful Eight, writes Helen Barlow

Actor Kurt Russell auditioned for the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope, but ended up taking a role in a western.

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Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino has hit back at police groups threatening to boycott his upcoming film, saying he stood by his comments about police brutality.

Calls by police groups to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s latest film are putting pressure on one of next month’s most anticipated releases and plunging one of Hollywood’s top directors into a pitched cultural battle.

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Quentin Tarantino has been busy brewing up another pop culture classic in The Hateful Eight, and we’re finally getting out first glimpse.

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It doesn’t take long to realise David Collins is not your typical county player or young man.

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HE MAY not be superhuman, but Michael Keaton is super-energetic. He talks nineteen to the dozen, making constant asides and asking rhetorical questions, so at times it’s almost as if he is debating with himself.

Quentin Tarantino's new film 'The Hateful Eight' is to begin filming in January.

Serum foundations, Rihanna’s latest lippy and smoky nudes hit counters this week.

Uma Thurman has spoken about the rumours that she is in a relationship with Quentin Tarantino.

We’ve been waiting a long time for it, but the new — and very

Quentin Tarantino's lawsuit against Gawker has been dismissed.

Gawker is urging a federal court to drop Quentin Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight' lawsuit.

Gawker claim it was Quentin Tarantino himself who turned his leaked script for 'The Hateful Eight' into a news story.

Quentin Tarantino is suing Gawker for leaking his script for 'The Hateful Eight'.

'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' has been named 2013's most pirated film.

Quentin Tarantino has revealed details of a fight he had with a taxi driver in New York.

8pm. My husband and I are jogging towards the Eye cinema from Galway city centre, in a last-minute bid to catch a movie. “Something nice and benign,” I gasp, as I’m whisked along.

EVERY now and then a movie comes out of nowhere, made on the cheap, and becomes a classic.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has said filming violent scenes like those featured in Django Unchained does not deter him from wanting his movies to be great art.

CHRIS Marker’s La Jetée was one of the first films made with still rather than moving images.

Daniel Day-Lewis made Oscar history today – becoming the first man to be named best actor three times.

Quentin Tarantino is planning a new movie in the style of 'Django Unchained' and 'Inglourious Basterds'.

Hollywood bad boy Quentin Tarantino was celebrating today after his controversial screenplay for the western 'Django Unchained' was awarded a Bafta.

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Opening in Texas in 1858, Django Unchained (18s) begins with bounty hunter King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) liberating Django (Jamie Foxx) from slavery, so that Django can identify a trio of brothers Schultz is tracking down.

Lady Gaga wants to become a film star.

WE stand between two significant television moments. One happened last week, the other is due later today.

He’s more familiar with Kill Bill than with Killarney, but that hasn’t stopped director Quentin Tarantino from enjoying a Kerry-style redub of his classic film Pulp Fiction.

GOOD friends can talk about anything, and for director Quentin Tarantino and producer/director Reginald Hudlin, anything usually included long, good-natured chats about the mechanics of the African-American slave trade.

Following the colossal impact of ‘Pulp Fiction’, Quentin Tarantino's reputation kept him a cult favourite straight through smaller pictures like ‘Jackie Brown’, the ‘Kill Bill’ series, and even the less impressive ‘Death Proof’.

You may have seen the clip on YouTube - Vince and Jules from Pulp Fiction driving through Tralee.

Samuel L. Jackson was upset he was too old for the lead role in 'Django Unchained'.