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.

Cinema review: Rampage

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

RAMPAGE OPENS in space. An off-planet research ship is breaking apart and three vials of genetic altering substance falls to earth. One of them lands in a San Diego wild life reserve run by Davis Okoye, played by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

Galway Film Society - new season, new location

Thu, Apr 12, 2018

THE GALWAY Film Society has moved to a new location to screen its new season of films. The Pálás Cinema will now host screenings of the society and Galway can look forward to a diverse range of films from Japan, Switzerland, Russia, France, Germany, and Australia.

Cinema review: A Quiet Place

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 12, 2018

A QUIET Place is directed by John Krasinski, who most people will know as Jim from The Office, but do not let that fool you - there are no fourth wall breaking smirks to the camera here.

Japanese Film Festival - eight days of cinema

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

EIGHT DAYS of the very best and latest films from Japan will be screened at both The Eye and Pálas cinemas, when the 10th annual Japanese Film Festival comes to Galway.

Cinema review: Isle Of Dogs

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 05, 2018

DIRECTOR WES Anderson is on a bit of a roll. His last two films, Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, have been among his best work, but I was a little disappointed at his decision to step back into stop motion animation.

Preview screening of new French film at the Pálás

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

THE MARVELLOUS Juliette Binoche stars in Let The Sunshine In, the French film that will open the new Galway Film Society season and mark the society's move from the Town Hall Theatre to the Pálás Cinema.

You Were Never Really Here

Films Reviews Thu, Mar 29, 2018

AFTER A Terrence Malick like absence, one of Britain's finest directors, Lynne Ramsay, has a film back in the cinema, following up her 2011 masterpiece, We Need To Talk About Kevin, with another adaptation.

Black Panther

Films Reviews Thu, Mar 08, 2018

FOLLOWING THE amazing and positive reviews Black Panther, Marvel's latest film, has been receiving, I decided to go and see it for myself, and it is a visually astounding film, very intriguing, and surprisingly deep.

'We want to give you the best of films'

Thu, Mar 08, 2018

IT HAS been praised for its stylish architecture, its restaurant and bar, but the proof of the Pálás pudding will be what Galway’s long-awaited arthouse cinema shows on its three screens.

William Fitzgerald named new Galway Film Fleadh programmer

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

William Fitzgerald has been appointed as the new programmer for the Galway Film Fleadh, taking over from Gar O’Brien who has stepped down after seven years in the role.

La Bohème to be screened at The Eye

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

AT 95, veteran Italian film maker and opera producer Franco Zeffirelli shows no signs of slowing down, as he is staging Puccini's much loved La Bohème at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

Connemara premiere for Murdair Mhám Trasna

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

MURDAIR MHÁM Trasna, a feature length docu-drama on the slaying of a family in Connemara, and subsequent wrongful convictions and executions of innocent people, will be screened in County Galway next week.

Twelfth Night at The Eye on Valentine’s Night

Thu, Feb 08, 2018

UNREQUITED LOVE, cross-dressing, and strangers in a strange land, it's all part of Shakespeare's much loved comedy, Twelfth Night, which is being performed by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company.

A weekend of hit European movies in Galway

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

A WEEKEND of hit movies - from comedies to thrillers to drama - which have been box office smashes and/or won awards on the European continent, will be screened at the Town Hall Theatre when the annual Subtitle - European Film Festival comes to town.

Romeo and Juliet - from The Bolshoi to The Eye

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE BOLSHOI Ballet's production of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet will be broadcast live from Moscow to The Eye Cinema on Sunday January 21 at 3pm.

Galway Film Society say farewell to Town Hall with charity screening of Happy End

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

GALWAY FILM Society is to hold a special charity fundraising screening of Happy End , the latest film from Oscar® and two-time Palme d’Or Winner Michael Haneke, in the Town Hall Theatre, with all profits going to benefit Galway Simon Community.

Verdi’s Rigoletto - live @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

RIGOLETTO, ONE of Verdi’s most popular operas, is being performed at The Royal Opera House Live, in Covent Garden, London, and is being broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, next week.

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