Reservoir Dogs at Town Hall

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

“THERE’S TWO ways you can go on this job: My way or the highway,” so says Joe, played by Lawrence Tierney in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.

Pete Mullineaux acting classes

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

GALWAY BASED actor, poet, and songwriter Pete Mullineaux will host his next series of acting classes in the Galway Arts Centre, starting Wednesday January 20.

Malcolm Middleton’s Long Dark Night

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

MALCOLM MIDDLETON may have announced he’s taking a break from recording solo albums for a while, but he’s not finished touring and this first rate songwriter is coming to Galway at the end of the month.

Cinema Review- Daybreakers

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

A dystopian world where vampires have taken over and the remaining humans are hunted down and farmed like animals seems like the perfect recipe for a fangtastic blockbuster, but sadly the Spierig brothers’ direction got lost in the gore, leaving just a bloody, and at times laughable, mess in its wake.

As a vampire flick fan I have been waiting with baited breath for the arrival of Daybreakers to our cinema screens. The film, which is directed and written by twin brothers Michael and Peter Spierig, began great and remained that way to some point in the middle until it just went a little crazy, losing focus and getting much too caught up in the gore - when in doubt tear off more limbs. It’s a real pity because the initial idea behind the film is excellent and very much like 28 Days Later but with vampires. Should have been a success right? Well, it wasn’t.

Athenry’s Julie Feeney wins again

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

THE AWARD winning Athenry born vocalist and composer Julie Feeney won the Best Styled Irish Music Video 09 award at the recent IMTV Awards in Dublin.

Over The Edge celebrates its seventh birthday

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

THE OVER The Edge readings will celebrate its seventh birthday on Thursday January 21 with a reading by the poet David Wheatley in the Galway City Library.

Acting workshops

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

ACTRESS AND director Sarah O’Toole will run acting workshops in the Anno Santo Hotel and The Creative Actor course in the Galway Arts Centre.

Text in Action workshop

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

ARTISTS AND theatre-practitioners who want to explore what text can do in a performance context should check out a new class which begins next week.

Art Exhibitions

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

Adrien Sourdot
Madame Pompom And The Chthonians, the debut exhibition of French artist Adrien Sourdot opens in the Galway City Library tomorrow. The Madame Pompom section features oil, pastel, ink, and watercolour works of ‘accidental figures’. The Chthonians features oil, acrylic, and plaster works. The official opening is on Friday January 15 at 8pm. It then runs until January 31.

Call for support for ‘Forge at Gort’ literature festival

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

THE THIRD Forge at Gort literature festival takes place at the end of March and the organisers are appealing to the public for sponsorship.

Acting For Screen course returns to Galway

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

THE ACTING For Screen workshop with actor, agent, and lecturer Shane Munro, returns to Galway next month.

Flamenco classes restarting soon in Galway

Thu, Jan 14, 2010

FLAMENCO DANCER Fatima Lucia will begin a new term of flamenco dance classes on Tuesday January 19 in Áras na nGael, 45 Dominick Street at 7pm.

Start the New Year cinematically

Thu, Jan 07, 2010

AN ARTIST is ‘inspired’ by her guardian angle, a Kurdish youth plans to swim the English Channel to reach his girlfriend, dark goings on mar a town in Germany on the eve of WWI, and a Hungarian woman must confront her past if she is to have a future.

These are just some of the stories from some of the films which will be screened during The Galway Film Society’s winter/spring season which runs from January 17 to March 14. There will also be films from France, Germany, Romania, and Britain, as well as the new film from Jane Campion.

Enter The Asylum with Keith Barry

Thu, Jan 07, 2010

TOP MAGICIAN, illusionist and hypnotist Keith Barry is known as Ireland’s Druid Master. His exceptional sleight of hand and mind control talents carry on the ancient druidic tradition and have marked him as one of Ireland’s leading entertainment figures.

2010 at the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 07, 2010

AS THE curtain rises on 2010, what theatrical ‘goodies’ can playgoers look forward to at the Town Hall Theatre over the coming year?

Renmore Panto’s highly entertaining Mother Goose holds sway until January 17 and will doubtless draw full houses for the rest of its run. After that, the new season commences in earnest and, fittingly, the first play of the year is a new offering by local author Jack Kirwan, entitled Playing At Plays.

Celebrate Schumann with Music For Galway

Thu, Jan 07, 2010

“IT IS music’s lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart,” so said Robert Schumann, whose music will be celebrated this month with a weekend of concerts in Galway.

The Secret Garden at Nuns Island Theatre

Thu, Jan 07, 2010

A YOUNG girl must leave India to live with her reclusive uncle in his great, empty, mansion in England. It would be very lonely there but for a magical and mysterious secret garden.

Journey into sound with God Is An Astronaut

Thu, Jan 07, 2010

POST-ROCK BANDS may be 10 a penny these days and there are only very few that truly have the class and skill to stand out from the rest.

All hail the O’Emperor

Thu, Jan 07, 2010

O’EMPEROR have been hailed by Hotpress as “nothing short of genius”, Futuresounds compared them to Fleet Foxes, while Totally Dublin said they “have ticked off the right boxes to create a post-rock classic”.

Cinema Review - Sherlock Holmes

Thu, Jan 07, 2010

Guy Richie has managed to claw his way back from the film industry rubbish heap to be once again on top of his game with this exciting and innovative take on the much loved character of Sherlock Holmes. Gone is all that ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’, nonsense and welcome a fast thinking, bare-knuckle punching, slightly mad (but in a good way) detective that is so fun to watch you will be itching for a sequal.

This latest offering by Richie will help seal his position as one of the best British directors currently in the industry. The success of the film is helped greatly by the unbelievable chemistry between the two main actors, Robert Downey Jr (Sherlock Holmes) and Jude Law (Dr John Watson). Downey Jr has, in my opinion, always been a great actor but his full potential was never reached, until now that is. He manages to give Holmes all kinds of interesting layers; there is no question that the detective is a genius but he has so many flaws, namely his bouts of depression, his inclination for experimenting on himself and the poor dog, his need for danger, and his ‘bro-mantic’ attachment to Watson. Law, on the other hand, has never impressed me but here his performance is excellent, it just works. Watson is clearly just as clever as his famous partner and just as gifted, being an ex-soldier, at fighting off the enemy.

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