Scene + Heard: What's going on around the country

FILM TIPS: Star Wars fans and Irish tourist marketers have almost a year to wait for the next instalment, with December 15 looking the most likely release date. 

Perhaps they can ease their pain with some terrestrial singing and dancing action from La La Land next week. It’s so rare for a film to get such love from critics, but Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone seem to have charmed all round in a lavishly-praised movie directed by Damien Chazelle, who gave us Whiplash last year.