Junior Galway Film Fleadh seeks young film-makers
Thu, Sep 26, 2019
THE 25TH Junior Galway Film Fleadh take places in the Pálás Cinema from Sunday November 10 to Thursday 14, with weekend screenings, educational screenings, workshops, and an Irish language short film outreach programme.
Read more ...Foróige film making workshops
Thu, Sep 19, 2019
FILM-MAKING workshops for young people aged from 14 to 18, will take place in the Galway City Youth Cafe, Fairgreen Road, on Mondays from 5pm to 7pm.
Read more ...Extra Ordinary - 'Ghostbusters meets The Van'
Films Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2019
MAEVE HIGGINS plays Rose, a lonely, yet happy, shy, driving instructor in her thirties. Once a well regarded exorcist and paranormal investigator, she gave it all up after an accident involving her father which cost him his life.
Read more ...Doggy friendly Downton Abbey screening
Thu, Sep 12, 2019
THE BRITISH Monarch, Queen Elizabeth, did love her corgis, and dog lovers who love Downtown Abbey can bring their pets to a special 'doggy friendly screening' of the new film in the Pálás this Saturday at 11am.
Read more ...A choir, Shaun The Sheep, and the Pálás
Thu, Sep 12, 2019
THE BLUE Notes Choir will be singing at the Pálás Cinema for Culture Night on Friday September 20, when there will also be a preview screening of Shaun The Sheep 2: Farmageddon.
Read more ...It: Chapter 2 - an uneven adaptation
Films Reviews Thu, Sep 12, 2019
FIRST OF all, do not go see this movie if you have not seen the first one, as it is a direct sequel and you will not have a clue as to what’s going on. In Chapter 2 catch up with the gang from Chapter 1 27 years later.
Read more ...One man's journey along the Camino de Santiago
Thu, Sep 05, 2019
SVEN IS blind and deaf, but undaunted. He is determined to walk the Camino de Santiago, the 804km pilgrimage/hike through France and northern Spain - a journey chronicled in the film, The World At Arm’s Length.
Read more ...The Souvenir - a unsettling depiction of an abusive relationship
Films Reviews Thu, Sep 05, 2019
JULIE IS a film student in London in the late 1980s. She is trying to escape her life of privilege, but lives in her parents' flat in Knightsbridge. Yet, her attempts to make a film in Sunderland about a working class family are honest and admirable.
Read more ...Enjoy afternoon tea at Downton Abbey
Thu, Sep 05, 2019
ENJOY AN afternoon tea that Mr Carson would be proud of at the Pálás cinema for the opening weekend of the highly-anticipated Downton Abbey movie.
Read more ...Margaret Atwood at The Eye cinema
Thu, Sep 05, 2019
TO MARK the publication of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to her seminal work, The Handmaid’s Tale, the Eye will screen a public interview with the great Canadian author.
Read more ...Dinner and a classic movie at the Pálás
Thu, Aug 29, 2019
THE PÁLÁS Supper Club, the cinema's monthly event in its restaurant involving food and a classic film, will see screenings of The Guard and The Quiet Man in September.
Read more ...Good Boys - not a great movie, but a funny movie
Films Reviews Thu, Aug 29, 2019
MAX, THOR, and Lucas, are three best friends about to enter their teenage years. They struggle with hormones and growing up. They know lots of grown up words but not exactly what they mean: “She’s a nymphomaniac, it means she has sex on land AND on water."
Read more ...Almodóvar's new film to open Galway Film Society's new season
Thu, Aug 22, 2019
PAIN AND Glory, the new film by the great Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz, will open the Galway Film Society's autumn 2019 season of screenings.
Read more ...Tarantino's indulgent love letter to Sixties Hollywood
Films Reviews Thu, Aug 22, 2019
ONCE UPON A time in Hollywood is the ninth film from Quentin Tarantino, and if he is to be believed, it is his penultimate movie. He maintains that no director has directed a good film after his tenth. To that I say, what about Claire Denis, Akira Kursowa, or Stephen Spielberg?
Read more ...Blinded by the Light
Thu, Aug 15, 2019
Based on the life story of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor, Blinded by the Light tells the story of young Pakistani teen Javeed, coming-of-age in Luton in Thatcher's UK. Javeed is struggling with his cultural identity. When a classmate introduces Javeed to the music of Bruce Springsteen his life is altered. He hears his own story mirrored in The Boss’s songs and it inspires him to become a writer.
Read more ...The Current War - not exactly electrifying
Films Reviews Thu, Aug 01, 2019
THIS IS the story of Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and their competition to bring electricity to America. Westinghouse working with Alternating Current and Edison working with Direct Current.
Read more ...Quentin Tarantino retrospective at Pálás Cinema
Thu, Aug 01, 2019
OUTRAGEOUS, OVER the the top, always boasting an A-List cast, a brilliant soundtrack, and witty (and sometimes politically incorrect) dialogue, Quentin Tarantino has a formula, but it works a treat.
Read more ...Get singing at the Pálás
Thu, Jul 25, 2019
SING ALONG to classic Elton John hits as his life story unfolds before your eyes; see The Cure play their greatest songs in London; eat from a menu inspired by Pulp Fiction - that will be a Royale with Cheese then.
Read more ...Watch André Rieu’s Maastricht concert
Thu, Jul 25, 2019
ANDRÉ RIEU'S annual Maastricht concert, featuring his 60-piece Johann Strauss Orchestra, will be screened by The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday [July 27] at 7pm with an encore screening on Sunday at 3pm.
Read more ...The Lion King - a film that feels like a cover song
Films Reviews Thu, Jul 25, 2019
THE LION King is the latest Disney movie to get the live action treatment, but it is not live action. No lions were filmed for this. It is entirely computer generated. So it is animation?
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