Fantastic Beasts: The Grimes of Grindelwald

Films Reviews Thu, Nov 22, 2018

I WAS 11 when the first Harry Potter book came out, the same age Harry is in the story. I read those books - and only those books - repeatedly for a good 10 years (If I’m being honest 20 years).

See Elf - and raise funds for Pieta House

Wed, Nov 21, 2018

WHAT IS the perfect Christmas movie? Some say It's A Wonderful Life, others say Miracle On 34th Street, there are those who make the case for Die Hard, while for many it can only be Elf.

Widows - a heist move, but not as you know it

Films Reviews Thu, Nov 15, 2018

WIDOWS, THE latest film from British director Steve McQueen, is the last thing I expected from him. In fact when I heard his next project was based on a 1980s TV show, I was slightly concerned.

Juliet, Naked

Thu, Nov 08, 2018

Annie and Duncan are a reasonably happy couple in their late thirties living in a seaside town in England. Duncan has an obsession - he hosts a fan page for nineties musician Tucker Crowe. Crowe is a kind of Jeff Buckley like singer who disappeared after recording one great album - Juliet, Naked.

Volunteers needed for Junior Film Fleadh

Thu, Nov 01, 2018

THE 24th Junior Film Fleadh is accepting volunteer applications. Applicants must be over 18 and available to work any, all or some days, between 9.30am and 3.30pm from Tuesday November 6 to Saturday 10.

One man and his dog

Thu, Nov 01, 2018

MARCELLO IS a dog-groomer who runs his own parlour in a run-down seaside town. However his peaceful existence is disturbed when he is terrorised by violent former boxer Simone.

What we do (and see) in the shadows...

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

TAIKA WAITITI and Jemaine Clement’s comedy-horror mockumentary, What We Do In The Shadows, will be screened in the Pálás Cinema as part of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

First Man - the space race without the American jingoism

Films Reviews Thu, Oct 25, 2018

FIRST MAN is an adaptation of the book by the same name by James Hansen. A biography of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, it tells the story of his personal life leading up to the Apollo 11 mission.

What happens when you try and fail to be Pulp Fiction

Films Reviews Thu, Oct 18, 2018

BAD TIMES At The El Royale is the second film from director Drew Goddard, his first was the brilliant Cabin In The Woods, the hilariously meta horror movie from 2012.

'The Season of The Witch' descends on the Pálás

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

"DOUBLE, DOUBLE toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble" said the witches in MacBeth, and there will be much witching activity in the Pálás Cinema with its Season Of The Witch films for Halloween.

Buster Keaton and Contempo - together

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

STEP BACK in time to the cinema of the 1920s, when films had no soundtrack and were accompanied by live music, when the classic 1926 silent film The General is screened in Galway.

Trouble on the farm

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

FRANCE, 1915. The men are away at war, and women like Hortense and her daughter Solange, are manning the homefront, and taking charge of the running of the farm.

Wealthy sisters fallen on hard times

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

CHELA AND Chiquita are a formerly wealthy couple now forced to sell some of their inherited possessions. When Chiquita is imprisoned for fraud, Chela must embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Lady Gaga on course for an Oscar with A Star Is Born

Films Reviews Thu, Oct 11, 2018

AGEING, GRIZZLY, self-destructive, country singer Jackson Maine’s (Bradley Cooper) career is on the slide. An alcoholic, he is starting to lose his hearing and his passion.

The Met Opera returns to The Eye

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

TWO OPERAS by Giuseppe Verdi - Aida and La Traviata - will be performed as part of The Metropolitan Theatre's new 2018/2019 season, which will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Ailbhe Griffith and Alan Gilsenan to attend screening of The Meeting at The Eye Cinema

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

THE DIRECTOR Alan Gilsenan, Ailbhe Griffith, and the cast of the acclaimed new Irish film, The Meeting, will attend a screening of the film and take part in a public Q&A this evening aty 7pm in The Eye Cinema.

A peek into crazy rich lifestyles of insane luxury

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 27, 2018

BASED ON Kevin Kwan's best selling novel of the same name, Crazy Rich Asians is the highest grossing rom-com since the Sex In The City film, and the first Hollywood movie since Joy Luck Club with an all-Asian cast and director.

The next best thing to seeing Thelonious Monk on stage

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

THELONIOUS MONK, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, The Jimmy Guiffre Trio, and Mahalia Jackson - where could you have seen such an extraordinary line up of jazz and gospel musicians?

The Silver Branch - for the love of The Burren

Mon, Sep 24, 2018

PATRICK MCCORMACK is a poet, philosopher, and farmer. He is also the owner of ‘Fr Ted’s House’ in the Burren, County Clare, and is the subject of a film, which ponders a disappearing way of life, and our connections to the natural world.

Lenny Abrahamson to attend Pálás screening of The Little Stranger

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

ONE OF Ireland's leading film-makers, the Oscar nominated Lenny Abrahamson, will be in the Pálás cinema this weekend for a special screening of his new film, The Little Stranger, and take part in a public Q&A.

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