It's been a cinema staple for a century, but now popcorn is being banned by Britain's biggest chain of arthouse screens. Does the cotton wool-textured snack enhance or diminish the movie-going experience, asks Steve Robb.

Johnny Cash, births, deaths and marriages, silently falling remembrance poppies. Just some of the things that the Magazine's male readers said brought a tear to the eye.

Real men don't cry? Tell that to Michael Vaughan, Gazza, Jeremy Paxman or Mike "The Streets" Skinner. What makes the male tear duct well up?

Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles talks about her barbed pop songs, and her struggle to get them made.

BBC News entertainment reporter Mark Savage goes behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival.

American Idol hopeful Kellie Pickler and 18-year-old Taylor Swift sweep the Country Music Television Awards.

The National Blood Service is trying to boost donations among people from the ethnic minorities - and has recruited religious to their cause.

The Free Presbyterian Church elects a successor to Ian Paisley, its moderator for almost 57 years.

Coronation Street character Vera Duckworth is to be killed off early next year, the soap's producers reveal.

England full-back Jason Robinson says he felt like crying as he ended his rugby career at the Stade de France on Saturday night.

A look at what's making the headlines in Wednesday's morning newspapers.

Old age is the most enduring of the three phases of our existence. But it is also the one where our experience of life is at its most varied - and our views of life and our determination to cling to it are at their most contradictory.

The show credited with bringing gay TV characters out of the closet in the US ends after eight years.

Screenings of Colin Farrell's new film will be accompanied by a series of smells at a cinema in Japan.

Irish-born actress Geraldine Fitzgerald dies at her New York home, aged 91, after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Our man at St Andrews witnesses Jack Nicklaus' tearful goodbye

BBC Sport finds out what National Hunt trainers get up to in their spare time.

Cornelius Lysaght profiles some of the faces to watch at the Grand National meeting.

A profile of trainer Nicky Henderson for the 2005 Grand National

Cornelius Lysaght reviews the Cheltenham Festival.