Cinema review: BlacKkKlansman

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 30, 2018

BASED ON the true story of Ron Stallworth, the first black police officer in Colorado Springs and who managed to infiltrate the Klu Klux Klan, BlacKkKlansman feels like a spiritual successor to director Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing.

See Casablanca on the big screen

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

"OF ALL the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." "We'll always have Paris." "Play it, Sam." It is one of the greatest films of all time, one of the most loved, and filled with memorable quotes. It is Casablanca.

Film review: The Festival

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 23, 2018

WHEN OUR hero Nick is dumped publicly at his graduation, his best friend Shane insists they go on a rite of passage by attending a music festival, and doing loads of drugs in a muddy field in the middle of England - this is basically The Festival's entire premise.

Seeking Galway young filmmakers for new scheme

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

DIG WHERE You Stand 2018, the documentary funding scheme for young filmmakers in Galway city and county, is seeking submissions, and is open to anyone based in Galway under 35.

Cinema review: The Meg

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 16, 2018

EVERY NOW and again a movie comes along where it appears the creators had a title and then tried to build a story around it. The Meg - short for Megladon, a giant dinosaur shark - is certainly one of those movies.

Celtic broadcasters launch international production fund

Thu, Aug 09, 2018

A host of broadcasters from the Celtic regions have joined forces to set up an exciting new media production fund to develop new drama, animation, and factual programmes in the Celtic languages.

The Celtic International Fund will run an annual joint-commissioning round between the indigenous Celtic language television broadcasters and funders of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Northern Ireland.

Orson Welles, the artist, and Ireland

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

MARK COUSINS, the director of The Story of Film: An Odyssey and I Am Belfast, is coming to Galway to present his new documentary about Orson Welles, to be screened at the Pálás.

Cinema review: Mission Impossible: Fallout

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ETHAN HUNT is back, in the IMF, which hilariously stands for Impossible Mission Force. After an operation gone wrong, three plutonium…things? have gone missing and a scientist who has the ability to turn them into nuclear weapons has been kidnapped.

André Rieu - live at The Eye

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

ANDRÉ RIEU'S annual Maastricht concert will be broadcast live via satellite, from the violinist and orchestra leader's hometown in the Netherlands, to more than 2000 cinemas worldwide, including to The Eye Cinema in Galway.

Cinema review: Incredibles 2

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 26, 2018

PIXAR HAS had a pretty tumultuous few years. Its studio head John Lasseter has stepped down due to alleged sexual miscondonduct for "missteps" and "unwanted hugs". Now the studio, which was known for amazing original work, has just released its fourth sequel this decade, with two more to come in 2019.

Sons and Broken Noses - Galway premiere

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

COMEDIANS JASON Byrne and Eric Lalor star in Sons and Broken Noses, a new, Galway made film directed by Colin Fleming, and produced by Fleming and Nigel O'Brien, and written by Damien Aulsberry.

Galway screening for new Irish film Lost & Found

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

LOST & FOUND, the award winning new Irish feature film starring Moone Boy's Norma Sheahan, Games of Thrones' Anthony Morris, and Foil Arms & Hog's Seán Flanagan, will be screened in The Eye Cinema from tomorrow, July 20.

Cinema review: Black 47

Films Reviews Mon, Jul 16, 2018

THE CLOSING film of this year's Galway Film Fleadh was the much anticipated Black 47, the Great Famine-era western, with a big budget, an international cast, and it was filmed in our own back yard here in the west of Ireland.

Marisa Tomei to attend screening of Behold My Heart

Thu, Jul 12, 2018

THE 30TH Galway Film Fleadh takes place this week and among the highlights will be the screening of Behold My Heart, starring Marisa Tomei, who will attend the screening at the Town Hall Theatre.

Cinema review: Dublin Old School

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 12, 2018

DUBLIN OLD School is the surely going to be the Irish film of the year. Viral YouTube star - although he probably cringes at the title - Emmet Kirwin, along with co-writer and director David Tynan, has adapted his award winning play for the screen.

World premiere for When All is Ruin Once Again

Thu, Jul 12, 2018

THE WORLD premiere of When All Is Ruin Once Again, a Galway made feature documentary about memory and the importance of preserving it, will be shown at the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh.

Five up for Bingham Ray New Talent Award

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

ACTOR JORDANNE Jones, film makers Martin Beirne, Aislinn Clarke, and Viko Nicki, and producer Brian J Falconer are the nominees for the Galway Film Fleadh’s Bingham Ray New Talent Award.

When a kitchen appliance is more important than a husband

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

GRACE THINKS she has the perfect happy family - a loving husband, two wonderful children - but when her husband brings home a new kitchen appliance, she releases there might not be room form them both in the house.

Thirty films for One Minute Film Festival

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

THIRTY SHORT films, by local, national, and international ilm-makers, will be screened at the One Minute Film Festival, as part of the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh.

Cinema review: Ocean's 8

Films Reviews Thu, Jun 28, 2018

OCEAN'S 8 is a new movie in the Oceans franchise. It is hard to believe George Clooney's Ocean's Eleven came out 17 years ago. It was a fun heist movie with some pretty entertaining sequels. Enough time has passed, and as we are rebooting and remaking anything and everything, why not Ocean's Eleven?

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