The Goldfinch - big star cast cannot rescue bad adaptation

Films Reviews Thu, Oct 03, 2019

THIS IS the second film released in the last few months named after a painting. The first was The Souvenir, a beautiful low budget movie about a film student in 1980s London. This is the opposite - big budget (which unfortunately looks set to make an epic box office loss), all star cast, and based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

Life, love, struggle, and the world on the big screen

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

BIZARRE LOVE triangles, a WWII drama set in the present day, working class life in Mexico, unlikely romances in Mumbai and Scotland, a South American thriller, an Iranian woman's struggle to play football internationally, and a family determined to keep a secret. This is the 55th Galway Film Society autumn season.

Ad Astra - the most realistic vision of the future yet depicted on screen

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 26, 2019

AD ASTRA is Apocalypse Now meets 2001: A Space Odyssey - I do not claim to be the first to make that comparison - but that is a pretty great combination of stories, and surprising it has not been done already.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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