SHE may have dropped out of school at the age of 15, but Nora Twomey's creative skills and determination have combined to make her one of the most respected film animators in the world.

ACADEMY Award-winning director Damien Chazelle takes one giant leap for immersive, nail-biting film-making in this thrilling dramatisation of the space race between America and the Soviet Union.

CURIOSITY killed the yak in director Karey Kirkpatrick's effervescent computer-animated romp, which follows an inquisitive yeti who comes in from the cold to prove the existence of a race of diminutive hairless creatures called humans.

IN NATURE, venom is a perfectly engineered toxin, which enters the body of unsuspecting prey and impairs vital functions, leading to paralysis or, in some circumstances, death.

Today The Slow Readers Club – The Limelight 2, Belfast Alexis Kings, Johnny James – Musicians Against Homelessness, The Palm House, Botanic Gardens, Belfast Tony Villiers – EastSide Visitor Centre, Belfast Gentry Morris – The Sunflower, Belfast Marc O'Reilly, Orchid Collective – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast Malojian – Riverside Theatre, Coleraine Connla – Bangor Castle Saturday October 13 Tom Odell – Telegraph Building, Belfast Tom Robinson and band – Elmwood Hall, Belfast Tiny Moving Parts, Happy Accidents, The Winter Passing – Oh Yeah, Belfast The Fake Flirtations, Great White Lies, Romeo Indigo Romeo etc – The Pavilion, Belfast Neil Foster, Róisín Whyte – Framewerk, Belfast Newt, Fox Colony, Heidi Heist etc – The Glassworks, Derry Connla – Ranfurly House Arts & Visitor Centre, Dungannon Deleyaman, Jules Maxwell – Portico of Ards, Portaferry Sunday October 14 Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – The Limelight 2, Belfast John Smith – Studio 1A Theatre, Bangor Coolio – Skylite Room, Warrenpoint Monday October 15 Editors, Talos – The Ulster Hall, Belfast Tuesday October 16 Warwick Johnson – The Limelight 2, Belfast Wednesday October 17 VerseChorusVerse – Chapter & Verse (ChorusVerse) book launch, The MAC, Belfast Superorganism, Chai – The Limelight, Belfast Okilly Dokilly, Molarbear, Crisis – The Empire, Belfast The Sherlocks, Martin Rafferty & The Northern City Lights, The Fugues – McHugh's, Belfast Thursday October 18 Eilidh Patterson – The Black Box, Belfast Friday October 19 Subhumans, Takers & Users, Belwood etc – Voodoo, Belfast An Orchestral Interpretation of Dr Dre's 2001 – The Limelight, Belfast Emily Barker, Lukas Drinkwater – The Sunflower, Belfast Glass Wings, Molly Sterling, Owen Lamont – The Black Box, Belfast Anthony Toner – American Bar, Belfast Connla – Old Courthouse, Antrim Saturday October 20 Saint Sister, Tandem Felix – The Black Box, Belfast Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast Emily Barker, Rory Nellis – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady Connla – Alley Theatre, Strabane Eilidh Patterson – Ranfurly House, Dungannon Sunday October 21 Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Marc Almond – The Waterfront Hall, Belfast Woes, Hello Casanova, Sleeping Outside – Voodoo, Belfast Saint Sister – The Glassworks, Derry .

New dates have been announced for two Kylie Minogue concerts in Belfast and Dublin.

THE Ulster Orchestra's 2018/19 Pops Series will get under way with the return of its popular I Love The Movies! night at Belfast's Waterfront Hall.

Cat Power Wanderer This cat bites.

ROGER McGough remains a cool dude at the age of 80.

BOOK OF THE WEEK Normal People by Sally Rooney is published in hardback by Faber & Faber, priced £14.

FICTION Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller is published in hardback by Fig Tree, priced £9.

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott is published in hardback by Picador, priced £14.

ACTRESS, model, film-maker, writer, farmer, style icon, mother and all-round entertainer, Isabella Rossellini keeps reinventing herself and now, aged 66, is bringing her new, one-woman-and-a-dog show to Belfast for its Irish premiere.

BREXIT, the First World War and the everyday lives of people living on both sides of the border come under the spotlight in a new art project premièring at the Ulster Museum this month.

OVER 250 artists across Belfast will open their private workspaces to the public for the Belfast Open Studios event next weekend.

ROSS Noble likes to keep his fans on their toes.

The bap was invented by baker Barney Hughes in 1842, Barney had come to Belfast 20 years previously from Armagh to work in the Belfast Public Bakery before opening his own bakery which operated in the city until the 1970s. An Bap on BBC2 NI at 10.15 this Sunday, explores the circumstances in which the bap was invented in the 1840s, a time of unprecedented growth for Belfast, largely because of the crowds of poor country people who were escaping the famine of 1845 ...

Conradh na Gaeilge, alongside the Committee for the Administration of Justice yesterday launched an audit of Local Council compliance with a newly compiled Irish Language Framework.  The research, carried out since the introduction of the new “super-councils” queries compliance with both local and international treaties in relation to the Irish language ...

Go mbeannaí Dia daoibh agus bhur gcéad fáilte isteach OR ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together and give a big Irish News welcome to the Bluffer’s Guide to Irish. Ye...

Is é atá in IMRAM féile litríochta a chuireann an fhuil ag sruthú frid chuislí na Gaeilge i mBaile Átha Cliath i rith na bliana agus ar feadh seachtaine beagnach i mí Dheireadh Fómhair – agus tá liosta le háireamh de scoth imeachtaí beartaithe don mhí seo i mbliana...