Film reviews: Memoria and Cow - Classics Now Festival - Ronnie Spector

Snowpoet are a London based musical collective led by Irish vocalist Lauren Kinsella & bassist, Chris Hyson, The Sopranos heralded a new era of television, Dr Clare Clark marks the anniversary, available on Sky, Mick O’Dea discusses Inside an exhibition of still life paintings & interiors from the studio at the Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery Dublin.

Ricky Gervais’ After Life is the most watched British comedy of the last ten years, worldwide, Ricky Gervais & cast members incl. Diane Morgan joins Seán, Declan Burke on the classic book to film, Watership Down, Oliver Sears' The Objects of Love, in association with Holocaust Awareness Ireland, at Dublin Castle’s Bedford Hall until February 13th.

Vivaldi’s Bajazet is the Irish National Opera’s first production of the New Year, Classics Now festival celebrates the art, literature & ideas of the Ancient Greeks & Romans, Cloud Studies is a new exhibition at Visual in Carlow.

Steven Benedict pays tribute to Sidney Poitier, whose death was announced today, he was a trail blazer as a black actor in a very white industry, Hilary Rose returns to on our screens in hit RTÉ drama Smother, Alan Corr and Nadine O'Regan look ahead to 2022, in music from breakthrough Irish artists to international music and concerts.

Donald Clarke & Gemma Creagh review films, The 355 a spy caper with Jessica Chastain, Boiling Point, Ailey, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain with Benedict Cumberbatch has sparked an interest in the work of Louis Wain & the Chris Beetles Gallery in London is current exhibition is Louis Wain’s Cats, Steven Benedict discusses the evolution of acting.

The Raptures is set in the small fictional Northern Irish town in the early 90s, Jan Carson's new novel explores how tragedy can both unite & tear apart a small community, Simon Maher on RTE Choice album of the year shortlist, Jess Fahy previews Andy Warhol's America, Every Brilliant Thing at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin

Screw is a new prison drama, starring Derry Girls’ Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Jenn Gannon previews the Channel 4 series, We Seldom Talk About the Past is a collection of stories by John MacKenna, Midwinter Festival Stanford celebrates the music and the legacy of Irish composer, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

Shy Man, Show Man is about the playwright Brian Friel, Conall Morrison has been watching the documentary which airs on RTÉ One on Thursday at 10.15pm, 50 years on from their debut, The Eagles are back on a world tour, Author, journalist and chronicler of contemporary America, Joan Didion died over the Christmas at the age of 87.

Seán Rocks takes a look back at the Arena series which looks at well-known artists, including Daft Punk, Marina Abramovic and Wes Anderson.