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

MUSIC NEWS: Radiohead may have got some stick recently for playing in Israel, but Thom Yorke and co are back on more solid ground with the announcement of a 20th anniversary release of their classic OK Computer album.

Des O’Driscoll picks five of the best events to check out this week. 

Arlene Foster has long been disliked by Sinn Féin, but the breakdown in government brings an election that could be the most bitter in many years, writes Brian Murphy

Actor Colm Meaney has described Sinn Féin politician Martin McGuinness as an “extraordinary statesman” after playing him in a new film.

While Fassbender and Vikander started their own real life romance on the film and they aren't the only new loves who will be in Venice.

Check out our guide to the best of today's TV.

Your guide to tonight's telly.

Magic Moment: For a very literal answer, I would look to a spellbinding sequence from Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, a show by Australia’s Back to Back Theatre company that was one of several from Down Under during the Dublin Theatre Festival.

Beethoven’s life was a series of disappointments, recurring conflicts, worsening illness and increasing financial worries, but, says Eamonn Lawlor, nothing could diminish his genius    

Nightcrawler ****

A quarter of a century in the life of famed artist J.M.W. Turner.

Mike Leigh tells Alan O’Riordan about finally getting his film on JMW Turner to the big screen

Turkish drama 'Winter Sleep' has won the Palme d’Or, the top honour of the Cannes Film Festival tonight.

Nicole Kidman’s Grace Kelly biopic has been met with a volley of damning reviews after it opened the Cannes Film Festival.

Your daily spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

The Amazing Spider-man 2 ***

An increasing number of films are being made for the 50 plus market, and the trend is set to grow, says Margaret Jennings.

Ken Loach and Mike Leigh will go head-to-head at the Cannes Film Festival.

Chelsea play host to Turkish champions Galatasaray in the return leg of their Uefa Champions League round of 16 tie at Stamford Bridge with the tie poised at 1-1.

Frankenweenie ***

Sam Worthington has signed up to star in rescue drama 'The Riders'.

London Olympics organisers promised an unforgettable party to close the 2012 Games and they pulled out all the stops to make it a night to remember, with Britain stamped all over it.

Irish comedian Brendan O’Carroll, star of BBC1’s Mrs Brown’s Boys, saw off competition including Rev and Fresh Meat to win the Situation Comedy category.

The revival of Hammer Films continues at an encouraging, and warmly welcome, pace with this chillingly effective tale of love, loss … and the recently dead, set in a small Irish village that provides the film’s title.

A FORMER star of hit TV series ER — who is currently treading the boards in Dublin — was on hand last night to help launch the line-up for the city’s 9th Jameson International Film Festival.

SECOND in line to the English throne, Bertie, aka Albert (Colin Firth), is afflicted by a debilitating stutter.

Michael Sheen has cornered the market in portraying famous – or infamous – Englishmen and here he teams up with writer Peter Morgan who penned ‘The Queen’ (in which Sheen played Tony Blair) and ‘Frost/Nixon’ (ditto David Frost) to bring us that most individual of football managers Brian Clough.

Colm Meaney is playing legendary English football boss Don Revie in director Tom Hooper’s 'The Damned United'.

The much-anticipated musical about the demon barber who did more than snip off the odd stray lock – he snipped off the heads of his customers and turned them into pies – brings us another wonderfully atmospheric offering from Burton.

ITV1 is to screen a fly-on-the-wall documentary revealing how author JK Rowling wrote her final Harry Potter book.

ITV1 is to screen a fly-on-the-wall documentary revealing how author JK Rowling wrote her final Harry Potter book.

Suppose the Germans had won the Battle of Britain and invaded England … only to be defeated by the Scots?

He was a grocery deliveryman who in his spare time was a hangman.

With a cast that includes Carrey, Streep, Spall and Law this screen version of the children's books by Daniel Handler seems strangely out of kilter.

Rubber-faced comic Jim Carrey kept the crowds entertained at his latest movie premiere.

A Belfast novelist who scooped an award for his first venture into movie-making has been lined up for an appearance at the Foyle Film Festival.

In so many ways Tom Cruise's latest flick, The Last Samurai, is a bit of a clunker, but expect it to be a blockbuster anyway.

He had promised to sign autographs for every fan who wanted one, and Tom Cruise stayed true to his word at the premiere of his new movie.

Hollywood star Tom Cruise has promised to sign autographs for every fan who turns up in London’s Leicester Square tonight for the premiere of his latest film The Last Samurai.

Timothy Spall, who is best known for his roles in low-budget, British character-driven films, is gaining a high-profile in Hollywood through his appearances in three potential blockbusters.

The original Charles Dickens classic of poverty, friendship, endeavour, romance and redemption in the cobbled streets of Victorian London ran to some 700 pages; which means that McGrath had to do a bit of pruning for this excellent screen adaptation.