Apple's iPhone 6 looks set to launch on September 9th

RUMOURS suggest that Apple will unveil the iPhone 6 at the beginning of next month

Paul Walker wanted to swap Hollywood for shark studying

Late actor PAUL WALKER came close to quitting his successful acting career to study marine biology after spending time out on the ocean observing great white sharks.

Silver fox! Mickey Rourke steps out in NYC sporting odd grey hairpiece

MICKEY Rourke may have been hoping to go unnoticed as he stepped out in the Big Apple yesterday, but there was no chance of that thanks to his hair.

‘Fast & Furious 7′ Wraps Filming, Thanks Fans On Eve Of Original Release Date

 Marketing pulled a Jesse and hit the nitrous early with a Facebook post this a.m. celebrating the final shot filmed on Fast & Furious 7. 

Film round-up: God's Pocket, Inbetweeners 2 and Welcome To New York

PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN is sweaty and rotund as befits the grim working class milieu of John Slattery's directorial debut but let's hope his final film A Most Wanted Man gives him a better cinematic send-off.

Movies you never knew were filmed in Ireland (VIDEOS)

However there are a couple of movies which have been filmed in Ireland but you might never guess.

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Sitting in the theater, watching the end credits roll on Transformers: Age of Extinction, I was certain of two things: 1. That I'd just witnessed the stupidest movie of the year; and 2. It will make a billion dollars. Did I mention it's nearlythree hours long?

Jennifer Lopez Shows Off Her Backside in Revealing Shorts—See the Sexy Pics!

She can dance. She can sing. Oh, and she can work legs for days.

Robin Williams and His Famous Friends: Ben Stiller, Billy Crystal, Hugh Jackman, Steven Spielberg and So Many More—See the Pics!

It's no surprise that people were drawn to Robin Williams.

All This Mayhem review: The tragic fall of skateboarding champs Tas and Ben Pappas

A FRANK and painful account of Australian pro-skateboarders Tas and Ben Pappas's descent into drugs and crime in this gritty documentary

'I thought Gollum was a one-off,' says high-tech acting king Andy Serkis

HE's the star of some of the biggest films ever made (Planet of the Apes, King Kong, Lord of the Rings) but this is one actor who – thanks to cornering the market on performance-capture technology – can walk down the street undisturbed…

Step Up All In (2014)

Step Up: All In, the fifth flick in the franchise, recruits a handful of disparate members from previous iterations and brings them together as a newly formed super crew who attempt to win a Las Vegas dance contest lorded over by Lady Gaga avatar Alexxa Brava (Izabella Miko).

Dwayne Johnson's mom survives crash; the Rock says, 'hug your family tighter'

Dwayne Johnson's mother and cousin survived a head-on collision with a drunken driver last week, the actor said Sunday.

DVD-quality copy of Expendables 3 leaks online

A DVD-quality copy of Sylvester Stallone's action-packed The Expendables 3 has leaked online, three weeks before its scheduled release.

Sylvester Stallone: It's hard to get men to like you

Sylvester Stallone may come across as the ultimate guy's guy. But he says action stars like him are "the hardest characters to sell" to other men.

Marvel Takes America

The Marvel Universe Live! tour is a full-on assault.

Eminem and Rihanna's Monster Tour: On the scene opening night in Pasadena

Eminem and Rihanna: Why? He’s the reedy-voiced rapper from Detroit who defined MTV when the channel’s current demo was in diapers.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

The second chapter is always the most crucial one to nail in any blockbuster franchise.

Let's Be Cops (2014)

Just as the title suggests, two friends decide to be cops... except they're pretending.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

It's difficult to tell what audience director Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans) and producer Michael Bay had in mind while bringing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back to the big screen. Is it the kids drawn to the hit animated Nickelodeon reboot or the middle-aged crowd looking to reconnect with yet another thing they loved in their youth?

God’s Pocket review: A downbeat directorial debut from Mad Men's John Slattery

STARRING Christina Hendricks and Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his last roles, this a tense portrait of a working class community reeling from a young man's murder

Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev 'shudderingly embarrassing' in Solo For Two

THE ballet mega-stars should never have re-teamed for this trio of dances, says our critic

Top 10 facts about instant coffee

ON AUGUST 11, 1903, Chicago chemist Dr Sartori Kato received US patent No 735,777 for his “Coffee Concentrate and Process of Making the Same” widely seen as the invention of instant coffee.

Top 10 facts about transport

Transportation dates back thousands of years, with July 23 having a notable role in the more recent past.

Top 10 facts about cartoons

MEL BLANC, who was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and many other popular cartoon characters, died 25 years ago today on July 10, 1989.

Top 10 facts about poppies

NOT only did Beachcomber yesterday write about the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Picnics but the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge earlier this week planted ceramic poppies at Tower Bridge.