1. When did you think about a career in acting and what were your first steps into it? When I was in primary school I used to make up little plays with a pal and put on little bits for the class and other classes.

FROM revealing how watching Derry Girls kept her sane when filming her upcoming movie Little Women, to offering career advice to Belfast students, award-winning Irish actress Soairse Ronan had an enjoyable return to Belfast and Cinemagic – the film festival she holds close to her heart – this week.

Satan's Slave IT MIGHT be my age, or perhaps I've always been perversely inclined towards such things, but I have to admit that I like a little 70s sleaze with my old-school British horror movies.

IN A long, distinguished career on stage and screen, which soared over the rainbow in 1939 when she donned Dorothy Gale's ruby slippers in The Wizard Of Oz, Judy Garland was nominated for two Academy Awards in the first remake of A Star Is Born and gripping courtroom drama Judgment At Nuremberg.

GOOD POSTURE (15, 94 mins) CHARMING and beautiful college graduate Lilian (Grace Van Patten) trades on her looks and wealth to get everyone, particularly men like her boyfriend Nate (Gary Richardson), to do her bidding.

THE Joker's wild and plagued with a neurological condition which compels him to burst into fits of maniacal giggling in director Todd Phillips's profoundly disturbing character study.

TEENAGE hormones and pregnancy hormones collide in an unexpected way in a new feature film set in Derry, starring Bronagh Gallagher and produced by her sister Louise.

THE 30th Anniversary Cinemagic festival opens today, with more than 30 days of unmissable opportunities for young audiences on the programme, including personal appearances by cinematic big hitters including Oscar-nominated Irish star Saoirse Ronan and legendary actress Hayley Mills.