Arts journalist Nadine O'Regan, writer Declan Burke and actress Carrie Crowley.

Directed by Rob Marshall and based on Fellini's '8½', 'Nine' stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Maestro, a celebrated movie director who also happens to be a major success with his leading ladies. And so here comes a top drawer supporting cast, which includes Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren. So far this is all quite the package - and when you add the fact that the script was written by the late Anthony Minghella, this surely can't fail. One small thing which we may have neglected to mention, however, is that this is a musical. And Daniel Day-Lewis' character has found himself in the middle of a creative crisis and some pretty mixed up personal stuff. 'Nine' is showing at cinemas nationwide.

Directed by John Hillcoat, and based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Road' stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee in a father and son tale set in a post post-apocalyptic America. Wearing rags and pushing an old shopping trolley, they head south through a devastated landscape where nothing grows, constantly scavenging for food while trying to avoid becoming food themselves. As if things aren't bad enough, bands of cannibals are now roaming the land. 'The Road' is showing at cinemas nationwide.

Now on at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, 'Picturing New York' is a touring exhibition from New York's Museum of Modern Art. It's a collection of photographs of that most photogenic of cities and its equally photogenic citizens, taken between 1888 and 2003. The exhibition includes many very well known images and many of the world's most famous photographers are represented on the walls - people like Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Bresson and, of course, Weegee. 'Picturing New York' continues at IMMA until 14 February and admission is free on Fridays.

'The Soldier's Song' is the debut novel from the Hennessy Award-winning author Alan Monaghan. Beginning in Dublin in 1914, Stephen Ryan joins the British Army and ends up fighting in Turkey - quite unaware of what's going on at home. And of course things are happening in Ireland and in 1916 the Rising will change everything forever - not least because his own brother is fighting for the rebels. 'The Soldier's Song' is published by Pan Macmillan.

Our music this week comes from FIDIL, a Donegal trio whose debut album '3' has just been released, and brings together three of our finest young virtuoso traditional fiddlers: Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, Aidan O'Donnell and Damien McGeehan. FIDIL perform for us 'The Tullaghan Lassies' from that album.