Vanessa Redgrave, Nathalie Baye, Kerry Fox, Ross Noble, Anna Friel, and Ben Wheatley are among the stars joining Irish talents Jack Reynor, Moe Dunford, Cillian Murphy, John Butler, and Aiden Gillen on the red carpet.

Brooklyn has been named film of the year at the London Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Oscar-winning writer and actor Colin Welland has died aged 81.

Clodagh Finn meets the man who coached the Iron Lady and Princess Di on how to speak to be taken seriously.

Irish actor Aidan Turner has revealed he has stayed relatively in the dark over his new status as TV’s biggest heartthrob because he doesn’t use social media.

The cash-pile at the firm owned by movie director Jim Sheridan more than tripled in 2013 to €352,608.

IT’S been an emotional morning for the cast of Call The Midwife. Firstly, they were greeted with the happy news that Ben Caplan, who plays PC Noakes in the nostalgic nursing drama, spent the previous day in hospital, while his wife gave birth to their second child.

Rooney Mara is to appear in 'The Secret Scripture'.

This is already showing signs of being a good year for film production, with a number of high-profile projects scheduled to begin filming around the country.

Two Hollywood A-listers have said music - not acting - keeps them sane.

At least one of four people arrested during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor’s mobile phone number.

GIG WISE: You may have missed the news released just before Christmas that Longitude will return to Marlay Park in Dublin on Jul 18-20, with confirmed acts including Disclosure and Ben Howard.

Hollywood superstar Jessica Chastain is set to make a film in Ireland about a woman accused of nymphomania.

The Butler ***

NOT every life warrants a film of seven hours and 46 minutes, but not every life was as dramatic as Richard Wagner’s. The British film director, Tony Palmer, cast Richard Burton in the title role of the epic biopic, Wagner, which was shot over seven months and released in 1983. It will be screened, with two breaks, as part of this year’s Cork Film Festival.

Music is the food of eternal love in Paul Andrew Williams’s comedic drama about personal triumph and reconciliation in the wake of terminal illness.

An average of 10,000 people a year send letters to the Italian city of Verona, asking romantic advice of Shakespeare’s tragic teenage girl, the personification of young love, says Richard Fitzpatrick

An arrest warrant has been issued for Cuba Gooding Jr.

Robin Williams is to play Dwight Eisenhower in new movie 'The Butler'.

As she languished under house arrest for almost 15 of the last 21 years, Burmese political leader, Aung San Suu Kyi could scarcely have dreamed of days and foreign lands where her cause would be championed.

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said her visit to Ireland will be one of the most unforgettable days of her life.

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will touch down in Dublin today for a six-hour visit.

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will jet in to Dublin tomorrow for a six-hour flying visit to the Irish capital.

Bono is to present Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with Amnesty International’s top honour when she visits Dublin next month as part of her first international tour in 24 years.

Bono will join fellow aid campaigner Bob Geldof in a special tribute event to honour Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Dublin this month.

Actor John Hurt has picked up the first of two lifetime achievement awards.

Actor John Hurt has picked up the first of two lifetime achievement awards.

THE story of how Edward VIII (James D’Arcy) abdicated the English throne for the love of the American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) in 1936 might be a familiar one, but W.E. (16s) offers an unusual perspective, exploring the tale from Simpson’s point of view, and taking into account the fact that while Edward gave up his throne for Wallis, she sacrificed her entire life for him.

Ralph Fiennes’s new film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is a labour of love for the British actor and director, says Declan Cashin

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' and 'Drive' lead the nominations for the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.

Joely Richardson says the death of her sister Natasha was “life-changing”.

Kenneth Branagh said tonight it was “thrilling” to be honoured at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).

TRIBUTES have been paid to the “unique” talent of British film director Ken Russell, following his sudden death at the age of 84.

The voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones, was "gobsmacked" to receive an honorary Oscar on Saturday.

Decades after a provocative Oscar acceptance speech, Vanessa Redgrave will be honoured at the film academy’s first European tribute to an actor.

Vanessa Redgrave is to receive an Oscar tribute in London on Sunday.

DIRTY tricks and skulduggery at the heart of an election campaign?

The Corona Cork Film Festival showcases the work of cutting edge artists, writes Colette Sheridan.

THEY DON’T come much more royal than the acting dynasty that is the Redgrave/Richardson’s, the family which has dominated the English stage and the Hollywood screen for nearly six decades and counting.

BRITAIN’S High Court yesterday rejected an appeal from a community of Irish Travellers to prevent their eviction from an illegal site where they have lived for a decade.

A group of Irish Travellers are today fighting eviction from Britain's biggest encampment.

Vanessa Redgrave thinks she has sometimes been a "bad mother".