IT HAS been suggested that there’s something of the Gatsby about Baz Luhrmann, since both men are predisposed to throwing extravagantly spectacular parties, with just a hint of hollowness.

DO YOU like cars? Or do you prefer movies where bulging, baldy action heroes like Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel glower at each other like homoerotic new potatoes?

THERE are probably more foolhardy enterprises than interviewing the aggressively venomous rock drummer Ginger Baker for a documentary, but it’s hard to think of many.

WHO is afraid of Saoirse ­Ronan? In the bowels of a Glasgow hotel, she looks innocent enough, sitting demurely in the manner of a 1950s model, legs crossed at the ankle and chatting about how best to drain a body of blood.

LIKE the trade itself, movies about hit men work best when they are quick, capable and thoroughly bloody.

IT’S hard to define the films of Alexei Balabanov; he’s like an angry Aki Kaurismäki, or a more impassive Gaspar Noé.

Having swerved some English-speaking roles, French actor Romain Duris tells Siobhan Synnot why there’s no place like home when it comes to his film choices

AS YOU may have heard, Merida from Brave has just become an official Disney princess, and had a makeover to celebrate.

The rest of this week’s film releases, reviewed by Siobhan Synnot

FOUR years ago JJ Abrams rescued Star Trek from the Neutral Zone with an amped- up reboot which managed to channel the original characters in ways that were funny, smart and sometimes even touching.

There’s a delicious irony in Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby kicking off the star-studded celebrations at the world’s most glamorous film festival, writes Hannah McGill

IS IT a good idea to make an all-singing, all-dancing stage version of Bret Easton ­Ellis’s American Psycho?

NOW, more than ever, we need a superhero: not someone with abs of steel and glutes of granite, but a sharp mind and a lateral wit. Oh do sit down Robert Downey Jr, we’re not talking about you. I mean the man doing the actual heavy lifting in Iron Man 3; writer-director, Shane Black.

AFTER a series of noirish, moodier films, I’m So Excited will be popular among fans of ­Pedro Almodóvar’s brightly coloured farces seeking rampant camp, drug-taking, inappropriate sex and lip-synched routines to a Pointer Sisters’ song.

A roundup of the latest cinema releases

What is it? Ang Lee’s spectacular 3D movie of Yann Martel’s bestselling story about a young man trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.