This week's guests are film maker Manchán Magan, art critic Cristin Leach and broadcaster Pat Coyle.

Directed by Peter Jackson and based on the bestselling novel by Alice Sebold, 'The Lovely Bones' stars Irish actress Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon - a young murdered girl who continues to watch over both her family and her murderer after her death. Existing in some place between heaven and earth, she tries to take special care of her father, played by Mark Wahlberg, for he is, understandably, a real mess of emotions, not all of them healthy. 'The Lovely Bones' opens in Irish cinemas on 19 February.

Directed by Michael Hoffmann and based on the novel by Jay Parini, 'The Last Station' stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy, a writer and thinker who, in his own lifetime, was considered not only a Russian hero but also something of a saint and a prophet. So much so, in fact, that he was surrounded by followers known as Tolstoyans, who eventually convinced him to leave all his work and his property to the Russian people. This might all sound very noble but his wife Countess Sofya, played by Helen Mirren, has other ideas. After all, she's the only one who really knows him and to her the Tolstoyans are just a bunch of parasites coming between her and the love of her life. 'The Last Station' opens in Irish cinemas on 19 February.

Now on at The Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, 'A Lively Start to a Dead End' is an exhibition from Kilkenny-born artist Nevan Lahart. A sheet of paper on the way in expresses his own acute wariness of artspeak and makes a point of listing all the things that the exhibition will not give you - understanding, meaning or a new lifestyle choice. So what is it and what's going on here? With the artist's blessing, you're on your own. Nevan Lehart's exhibition 'A Lively Start to a Dead End' is at the RHA in Ely Place, Dublin until 27 February.

'The Secret Dublin Diary of Gerard Manley Hopkins' by Robert Waldron brings us back to a time when Hopkins was appointed as Professor of Greek and Latin at University College Dublin. By way of a diary, Waldron takes us into the head if this famous poet and Jesuit, talking about depression, doubt and shame about his homosexual urges. And so this imagined diary is a mix of confession, meditation and some speculation about the origins of the poetry for which Hopkins is now so celebrated. 'The Secret Dublin Diary of Gerard Manley Hopkins' is published by Brandon.

This week's performance comes from the Mercury Nominated Portico Quartet. Their current album 'Isla' is produced by John Leckie, who has previously worked with Muse, The Stone Roses and Radiohead, and there's more than a touch of Radiohead about their take on jazz. They are currently on a nationwide tour until 25 February. Here they perform 'Paper, Scissors, Stone'.