Michel Déon, novelist and member of the Académie francaise lived in Co Galway for the last 50 years of his life, and died last December, aged 97. 

Des O’Driscoll with the latest entertainment news and events

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

Assassin's Creed starring Michael Fassbender is in Irish cinemas on the 1st of January 2017. It's an epic story of a man who dives into the world of his ancestor in the 15th century to learn the secrets of the Creed.

Without futher ado:

Brooklyn has been named film of the year at the London Evening Standard British Film Awards.

“WE all dream in gold,” says the official 2016 Oscars poster. The dreaming may be in gold, but the nominations are most definitely in white, while the boycotts are in black. It’s as if that other dream, the one Martin Luther King had, never happened, writes Suzanne Harrington

It's that time of the year again, when the many months of awards season come to a close with the biggest and brightest - the Oscars.

Women over 60 are having a ‘moment’ and it’s not a senior one. More confidence, more energy and they couldn’t care less what you think. 

Rose Mary Roche explores the theory that character, from which genuine coolness is derived, is much more fascinating than pure good looks. Faddy fashions peak and then die while genuine cool is consistent and enduring.

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s movie Taxi, in which the director stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the top Golden Bear prize Saturday at the Berlin International Film Festival.

With Twiggy and Charlotte Rampling fronting fashion ads, the beauty world seems to have realised older women rock, says Barbara Scully.

FASHION is having a pro-ageing moment, following in the footsteps of its twin sister, the cosmetics industry, which upped the ante in promoting older women for their brands last year.

Des O’Driscoll highlights some television highlights for the week ahead.

November beauty offers up soothing candles, sparkly powders and an empowering lipstick for every pout. 

Stars of the second series of whodunnit drama ‘Broadchurch’ have been united for the first time as they attended the read-through of scripts.

Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville has criticised the raft of violent crime dramas on TV.

The Amazing Spider-man 2 ***

Thanks to Angelina Jolie's BAFTA tux, androgyny is back. Get ready for masculine tailoring, cropped hair and brogues.

This week we meet Katie Lawlor and Jill Brennan.

There’s no faulting the ambition of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness (12A).

Daniel Day-Lewis’ dominance of awards season is set to continue after he received another best actor nomination for his performance in Lincoln.

With one glance at the invitation to Stella McCartney’s summer fashion show, it was obvious it would be quirky, decorated as it was with clear plastic tubing shaped into the form of spectacles.

From Rihanna to Holly Willoughby, going without make up is the latest celebrity ruse to hit the headlines. Can Edel Coffey do it for a day?

JOHN MADDEN’S The Debt (15A) opens in modern Israel, with Rachel (Helen Mirren) attending the launch of her daughter’s book, which details a mission carried out by three Mossad agents in East Berlin during the 1960s.

No film delivers everything by way of thought-provoking drama, horror, emotion or romance, but director Romanek’s working of the best-selling Kazuo Ishiguro novel comes close.

Seventeen-year-old social butterfly Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) must marry into money to ensure the social standing of her family in mid-18th century high society.

ACTRESS Scarlett Johansson has criticised Hollywood’s treatment of older women.

Scarlett Johansson has criticised Hollywood’s treatment of older women.

The Queen has been named alongside Kate Moss and rocker’s daughter Daisy Lowe as one of the world’s most glamorous women.

Helen Mirren has been named the world’s sexiest older woman.

Ellen, Brenda and Sue head to l970s Haiti for some restorative adventures; anything to brighten up their lives of discontent.

The Cannes Film Festival is back in the hands of comfy old friends with a line-up that includes such familiar filmmakers as Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Atom Egoyan.

A fine, well-made emotional rollercoaster - though one which certainly doesn't get out of hand - in which the central character (Stuart) has to come to terms with his troubles.

Another Brit film set in the world, now a heavily clichéd one, of London gangsters and based on the familiar theme of revenge for the death of a sibling.

THE FOURTH ANGEL stars Jeremy Irons as workaholic London magazine editor Jack Elgin whose wife and daughter are killed in a botched airplane hijacking.

Popular The Return of the King failed to clinch a single gong at an awards ceremony voted for by film critics tonight.