Anybody who has lived their life up to this point without managing to see Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal 1960 horror-flick Psycho is hereby urged to drag their lazy ass down to the IFC sometime between the 14th and 20th of August. It is Hitch’s darkest film, and probably his best. There’s nothing anyone can say about it that hasn’t already been said: forty years on, the world still awaits another horror movie like it.

In another one of the most ghastly horror stories ever told, it appears that the theme tune to Titanic has become, in six short months, the most popular funeral soundtrack in America, having officially outstripped Whitney’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ and Bette Midler’s ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’. Personally, if anyone even dares to pollute my (doubtless-imminent) wake with such a foul tune, I will arise from the grave and throttle each and every one of you.

Lock up your daughters! Rumour has it that ER heart-throb George Clooney is on his way to this fair isle of ours, having joined Stallone and Schwarzenegger as a partner in the Planet Hollywood chain.

Closer to home, our own Brendan Gleeson has landed the lead role opposite Bridget Fonda in the upcoming thriller ‘Lake Placid’, which also co-stars a gigantic killer crocodile . . .

Meanwhile, Anjelica Huston is currently in Dublin directing and starring in ‘The Mammy’, based on the comedy of the same name which was written by, eh, Brendan O’Carroll. The film will also showcase a cameo from Tom Jones . . . Frank McCourt’s phenomenally successful novel ‘Angela’s Ashes’ will commence shooting in September, with Alan Parker directing and Liam Neeson set to star alongside Emily Watson. (CF)