Glenn Close is tipped for an Oscar nomination for her role as an Irishwoman who dresses as a man to get work, says Helen Barlow

Mini-series 'Mildred Pierce' starring Kate Winslet, has been nominated for 21 Emmies, it has been announced today.

He’s been a long-time Hollywood favourite so it’s no great surprise to see Robin Hood back in his familiar Sherwood Forest robbing the rich to help the poor and righting wrongs.

He’s back: the leader of the Green Party!

Former supermodel Jerry Hall is to take centre stage in Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre, it was announced today.

Kevin Costner may have disappeared off the cinema radar in the past few years, but he returns to form in ‘Mr Brooks’ (Fox, €24.99), playing a pillar of society who happens to have a secret — he’s a serial killer, known as the Thumbprint Killer.

Penn, taking a true story about a man (Hirsch) who gives everything up to seek a new life in the wilderness, fashions a curious, yet endlessly fascinating, film of great visual beauty and deep human understanding.

Nice Mr Brooks (Costner) is your average family man, winner even of a ‘decent neighbour’ award … only he has an unusual hobby: he kills people with his pal William Hurt, in much the same way as a couple of guys go bowling or cheer on the local Rovers.

Stephen King fans will love Nightmares & Dreamscapes (Warner, €44.99), a collection of hour-long dramas drawn from the vivid imagination of the horror writer.

A harrowing, though quite stunningly made, tale of a family in crisis … with a son with a dark past, a minister father who disowns him, a murder and more dark secrets.

Academy Award nominee William Hurt is furious someone stole his Oscar while he was moving house last year.

Matt Dillon found his Oscar nomination bittersweet on Tuesday - because he is the only member of the Crash cast to be nominated for a performance in Paul Haggis' acclaimed deconstruction of racial tension in Los Angeles.

The cowboy love story Brokeback Mountain led the Academy Awards field today with eight nominations, including those for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

Ang Lee's gay romance Brokeback Mountain was hailed as the finest movie of 2005 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Saturday.

One of the classiest thrillers of the year, with a couple of potential Oscar nominations in Mortensen and the always-reliable Harris.

Movie star William Hurt has revealed for the first time he was held captive and almost executed at gunpoint while filming Kiss of the Spider Woman in Brazil in the early 1980s.

The Cannes Film Festival is back in the hands of comfy old friends with a line-up that includes such familiar filmmakers as Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Atom Egoyan.

The final Star Wars film will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, it was announced today.

Deep in a mysterious wood lies a small village, and deep in this mysterious wood there lurks evil monsters - ‘Those we don’t speak of,’ say the villagers.

A steamy encounter between David Hemmings and supermodel Veruschka in cult sixties film Blow-Up was today named the hottest sex scene ever.

In Manhattan, two men hurrying to their own fates meet in a minor fender-bender, the one (Affleck) is a lawyer, hurrying to file papers which will make his firm a lot of money, the other (Jackson) is a recovering alcoholic, hurrying to court to fight for custody of his children.