Coming soon to a cinema near you-We Need to Talk about Kevin

I'm really excited about the arrival of We Need to Talk about Kevin to the big screen at the end of this month. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Lionel Shriver, the story follows a mother who tries to deal with her grief and feelings by writing to her estranged husband after her 15-year-old son goes on a killing spree at his secondary school.

The film adaption sees Tilda Swinton play mother Eva, John C Reilly as dad Franklin and Ezra Miller as Kevin. As films go this is sure to be a hit, after being critically acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival.

Michelle Collins and John Michie to join Coronation Street

Actors Michelle Collins, who played Cindy in Eastenders, and John Michie, who found fame in TV series Taggart, are to join the cast of Corrie as the new Rovers landlady Stella and her husband Karl. The pair will step onto the cobbles next month to begin recording scenes that will air in June.

Stella is brought into the Rovers by owner Steve McDonald after a series of bust-ups with his wife Becky leave the pub's future in jeopardy. Their marriage, of course, hasn't been the smoothest, what with Becky's colourful past, buying her nephew, attempting to flee the country with two children, and then Steve's dad robbing a bank at gunpoint. It's enough to make anyone want to give up on life.

Steve hopes that employing Stella as his new bar manager he will get an easy life, but gets more than he bargains for when she moves in her husband Karl and her gorgeous but feisty daughter Eva, who's yet to be cast. However, the locals love Stella's warm and no nonsense personality, but is she too good to be true as it is revealed she is hiding a dark secret.

News of Stella's past will have shocking consequences for some of the street's most loved residents, as well as have an effect on Stella and Karl's relationship.