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KENNETH BRANAGH’S career continues to mystify me. In the early 1990s he was the poster boy for the RADA’s new wave, his peers included Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, and Jonathan Pryce, but it was Branagh who catapulted to fame first through adapting, directing, and acting in big budget adaptations of Shakespeare.

IRISH ACTRESS Saoirse Ronan plays the lead role in the new film Hanna, about a young girl who is trained by her father to become an assassin.

The latest incarnation of Robin Hood offered up by Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe is not just a re-hash of Gladiator, but an entertaining new take on an old and often abused story.

Budding Hollywood star, Carlow’s Saoirse Ronan, will be playing a teenage assassin in two films due to be released in the coming year.

As if she is not busy enough preparing for her role in the new Danny DeVito film The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle alongside Pierce Brosnan and Morgan Freeman, Carlow star Saoirse Ronan is house-hunting, and soon she could be your neighbour!

I’ve never had much luck or patience when it came to three hour long epic movies - there’s either far too much to take in or not enough. It takes a brave director, a great screenplay writer, and a few not too shabby actors to pull it off and I have to say Benjamin Button just about did just that.