Palaces to Pálás
Films Reviews Thu, Sep 18, 2025
Spoiler alert: I saw some of this year’s most anticipated films, and ate great Italian food too.
Read more ...Mini film festival this weekend
Thu, Sep 11, 2025
A new Women & Diversity Film Festival will take place in Gort Town Hall this Saturday, September 13.
Read more ...New LGBT film debut
Thu, Sep 11, 2025
The film tells the story of rugby player Jace meeting aspiring filmmaker Charlie at a college party. When the party is suddenly shut down by the Guards, the two find themselves alone in the streets of nighttime Dublin.
Read more ...MOVIE REVIEW: 'Weapons'
Films Reviews Thu, Aug 14, 2025
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The horror genre has felt slightly stale recently, and there has been an infatuation with trauma as its thematic engine. Much in the way that The Naked Gun felt like a breath of fresh air for the comedy genre, Weapons accomplishes the same feat for horror.
FILM REVIEW: The Naked Gun
Thu, Aug 07, 2025
With the The Naked Gun, Liam Neeson nosedives into comedy and, more specifically, slapstick, spoof comedy; a subgenre that has been largely forgotten or just lazily executed since the heyday of Airplane (1980) and the original Naked Gun series starring Leslie Nielsen.
Read more ...REVIEW: Friendship
Films Reviews Thu, Jul 24, 2025
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Tim Robinson is better-known for his sketch comedy work than feature film credits. He regularly participated in Saturday Night Live up until 2016, and has done his own show, I Think You Should Leave from 2019, to the present. I have since seen a couple of episodes of his comedy sketches and it seems Friendship is an attempt to transpose his unique brand of comedy to the big screen.
DC Universe in fresh hands
Films Reviews Thu, Jul 17, 2025
With comic book movies experiencing an alarming decline in commercial returns and audience interest, Superman (2025) was a risky venture. Especially since the character has a colossal reputation, and every incarnation of Superman that followed Christoper Reeve’s beloved 1978 version has been met with fan disappointment and mostly negative critical reaction. However if anyone could make Kal-El, the last son of Krypton, soar again, it was James Gunn.
Read more ...Irish psychological thriller to premier at Fleadh
Thu, Jul 10, 2025
I Hope We Can Still Be Friends is the innocent-sounding title for a new, revenge thriller filmed around Galway to be premiered tonight, Thursday, July 10.
Read more ...FILM REVIEW: The Shrouds
Films Reviews Thu, Jul 10, 2025
A deeply personal, thought-provoking film about grief and memory with a discomfiting sci-fi invention at its centre.
Read more ...All families are mad
Thu, Jul 10, 2025
In the aftermath of their father’s death, four estranged siblings are called back to their childhood home to decide the future of the family estate.
Read more ...MOVIE REVIEW: F1
Films Reviews Thu, Jul 03, 2025
After the resounding success of Top Gun: Maverick (2022), director Joseph Kosinski endeavours to replicate that potent formula with F1.
Read more ...Slieve Aughty on screen at Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jul 03, 2025
The world premiere of Marina Levitina’s latest documentary, on the people and beauty of the Graney Valley in East Clare, will be screened next Wednesday, July 9, as part of the 37th Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Almost 100 feature films at this year’s Fleadh
Thu, Jun 26, 2025
The 37th Galway Film Fleadh will feature 31 world premieres, and 11 European premieres from 44 countries, plus 46 Irish premieres, totalling 96 feature films overall.
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The colour of healing
Thu, Jun 19, 2025
Catherine’s life is changed the moment she discovers her husband dead, alone and motionless inside their glasshouse. What unfolds over the following days is a raw exploration of grief, financial hardship, isolating rural loneliness, and a fierce emotional awakening that challenges everything she thought she knew.
Read more ...‘The Last of Us’ director to give movie masterclass
Thu, Jun 19, 2025
Born in Iran and based in Denmark, Abbasi’s fourth feature, The Apprentice, premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival — his third Cannes selection—and was nominated for two Oscars, two Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, and three Independent Spirit Awards.
Read more ...Film Fleadh to re-open Pálás in July
Thu, Jun 05, 2025
The Galway Film Fleadh has struck an agreement with Galway City Council to manage the recently shuttered Pálás for the duration of the festival.
Read more ...MOVIE REVIEW: 'The Phoenician Scheme'
Films Reviews Thu, May 29, 2025
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Rewatching The French Dispatch (2021) recently reminded me just how singular Wes Anderson is as a filmmaker. The detail infused into each frame ensures that your attention never sways. There is so much to feast on.
Galway short selected for Cannes
Thu, May 22, 2025
The Irish feature film Learning to Breathe Under Water, filmed in Galway last September and co-produced by Galway-based production company Éiru Films, has been officially selected for the prestigious Great 8 Showcase at this week's Cannes Film Festival.
Read more ...The tyranny of doors
Thu, May 08, 2025
The film is a fictionalisation of part of the life of its writer/director, and deals with issues of access, especially the daily struggles she experiences with doors – na doirse.
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