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A robot doctor, which allows real doctors to diagnose patients from a remote location, will be coming to the assistance of stroke victims in Mullingar hospital in the near future.

JAPAN HAS one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world. Its first films were screened in 1897 - only two years after the Lumière brothers made their famous screenings in Paris. Today the country is currently the third largest feature film producer.

Athlone Film Club presents Tokyo Sonata (Japan/Netherlands, 2008) the Cannes award-winning film on Tuesday October 27 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre and Arts Centre, Athlone. Tokyo Sonata, a poignant social satire directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, offers cinematic audiences a unique perspective on the universal subjects of family and survival.

THE JAPANESE Film Festival takes place this weekend in the Town Hall Theatre with an array of diverse new films from the country to be screened.

It’s never too late to take on the adventure of a lifetime and what an adventure recent widower Carl Fredrickson has in Pixar’s latest offering UP, a film which expertly mixes sentimentality, ever-lasting love, action, and of course plenty of laughs.

Athlone Film Club continues its autumn/winter season on November 24 with The Visitor (USA 2007) a heartfelt, humanistic drama that deftly explores identity, immigration, and other major post- 9/11 issues.

In one final flurry to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of MGM’s multi-million dollar production, Alfred the Great, the Cinemobile announces that it will screen a special showing of the movie on location where many of the famous battle scenes were filmed at Castlehackett four decades ago.

FROM THE director of The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, and Godzilla, Roland Emmerich again lives up to the reputation of his previous works and blows us away with his vast selection of unbelievable special effects in his latest release; 2012.

Come along to the Dean Crowe Theatre on Tuesday December 8 as Athlone Film Club leads you into the Christmas season with A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel), a film that appeared on many critics’ top 10 list of the best films of 2009 and was also a leading contender for the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.

Brighten up your winter evening on Tuesday December 15 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre with Athlone Film’s Clubs final film of the season, the timeless classic White Christmas, one of the best loved Christmas movies ever made.