When a kitchen appliance is more important than a husband

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

GRACE THINKS she has the perfect happy family - a loving husband, two wonderful children - but when her husband brings home a new kitchen appliance, she releases there might not be room form them both in the house.

Thirty films for One Minute Film Festival

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

THIRTY SHORT films, by local, national, and international ilm-makers, will be screened at the One Minute Film Festival, as part of the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh.

Cinema review: Ocean's 8

Films Reviews Thu, Jun 28, 2018

OCEAN'S 8 is a new movie in the Oceans franchise. It is hard to believe George Clooney's Ocean's Eleven came out 17 years ago. It was a fun heist movie with some pretty entertaining sequels. Enough time has passed, and as we are rebooting and remaking anything and everything, why not Ocean's Eleven?

What the Fleadh?! - Festivals' late night programme

Thu, Jun 28, 2018

TO MARK 30 years of the Galway Film Fleadh, the festival has announced What the Fleadh?!, a new, dedicated late night strand, featuring movies that are strange, scary, or fantastical.

Two lemurs, Two Balloons, one short film

Thu, Jun 28, 2018

TWO ADVENTUROUS lemurs travel the skies in their wondrous airships. One night they meet by chance and forge a bond which sees them through a calamity and cements their friendship.

Men In Black and Charlie’s Angels screenwriter to give Fleadh masterclass

Thu, Jun 21, 2018

ED SOLOMON, the scriptwriter of Men In Black and Charlie’s Angels, and who is working on the third Bill and Ted film, will give the Screenwriters Masterclass at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.

Cinema review: Hereditary

Films Reviews Thu, Jun 21, 2018

HEREDITARY OPENS at a funeral, as Annie Graham eulogises her 78-year-old mother, Ellen, with whom she had a difficult relationship, something she is unsettlingly candid about.

Brad Bird's best animated family films

Thu, Jun 21, 2018

FROM HIS days with The Simpsons, to writing and directing with Pixar, Brad Bird has been at the forefront of animation for the past 30 years, and the Pálás Cinema is celebrating the man with a season of his films.

The Belly Of The Whale to open Galway Film Fleadh 2018

Wed, Jun 20, 2018

THE BELLY Of The Whale, the debut film from director Morgan Bushe, and starring Michael Smiley, Pat Shortt, and Game of Thrones' Art Parkinson, will open this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.

Cinema review: Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom

Films Reviews Thu, Jun 14, 2018

THE ORIGINAL Jurassic Park is, in my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made. Based on the best selling Michael Crichton novel, it was an all-star team of great actors, with director Steven Spielberg at the absolute top of his game.

Cinema review: DeadPool 2

Films Reviews Thu, May 24, 2018

DEADPOOL IS mourning the loss of the love of his life and, despite several attempts at suicide, due to his healing mutant power he cannot seem to be reunited in the afterlife with her.

A Scottish adventure - written by a Galwaywoman - to be shown at The Eye

Wed, May 23, 2018

OPENING THIS weekend at the Eye Cinema is Edie, scripted by Galway writer Elizabeth O'Halloran and starring Sheila Hancock. Set in Scotland, it features Hancock in the performance of her career, as Edie, a cantankerous mountain climber.

The dark lord on-screen - a season of Nick Cave

Thu, May 17, 2018

IF YOU cannot make it to Nick Cave's concert with Patti Smith in Kilmainham in June, you can enjoy a week of concert films and documentaries on the Australian genius at the Palás Cinema.

Cinema review: Revenge

Films Reviews Thu, May 17, 2018

JEN IS a young American socialite brought by her married lover, Richard, for a weekend away in a desert villa. When Richard's friends turn up early - the day before she’s supposed to leave - things start to go wrong for Jen.

Banff Mountain Film Festival 2018

Thu, May 10, 2018

ADVENTURERS ON mind-blowing journeys of courage and endurance, in the most remote, spectacular, and extreme corners of the globe, will be be on screen at the Town Hall Theatre when the Banff Mountain Film Festival 2018 returns to Galway.

Cinema review: The Delinquent Season

Films Reviews Thu, May 10, 2018

THE LIVES of two middle-class married couples in Dublin are thrown into disarray when two of the group begin an affair in the new Irish film, The Delinquent Season.

Macbeth to be screened at The Eye

Thu, May 03, 2018

MACBETH, SHAKESPEARE'S dark and violent drama of political ambition, betrayal, murder, assassination, corruption, and greed, is being staged by Britain's National Theatre, and will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema.

Film review: Avengers: Infinity War

Films Reviews Thu, May 03, 2018

FINALLY, IT'S here, has already broken records, and has the chance to be the highest grossing blockbuster of all time, finally surpassing 1997's Titanic. This is a movie that is easy to take for granted, but the scale of the story telling is a lot more impressive than any of the CGI.

Cendrillon - from The Met to The Eye

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

CENDRILLION, A sumptuous new take on the Cinderella story, is being staged by The Met Opera, and will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark, this weekend.

Film review: The Cured

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 26, 2018

SET IN Dublin a few years after a zombie outbreak, The Cured finds the world is relatively stable again. Subverting the genre before the credits even end, a cure has been found. Happy days.

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