What the Fleadh?! - Festivals' late night programme
Thu, Jun 28, 2018
TO MARK 30 years of the Galway Film Fleadh, the festival has announced What the Fleadh?!, a new, dedicated late night strand, featuring movies that are strange, scary, or fantastical.
Read more ...Two lemurs, Two Balloons, one short film
Thu, Jun 28, 2018
TWO ADVENTUROUS lemurs travel the skies in their wondrous airships. One night they meet by chance and forge a bond which sees them through a calamity and cements their friendship.
Read more ...Men In Black and Charlie’s Angels screenwriter to give Fleadh masterclass
Thu, Jun 21, 2018
ED SOLOMON, the scriptwriter of Men In Black and Charlie’s Angels, and who is working on the third Bill and Ted film, will give the Screenwriters Masterclass at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Cinema review: Hereditary
Films Reviews Thu, Jun 21, 2018
HEREDITARY OPENS at a funeral, as Annie Graham eulogises her 78-year-old mother, Ellen, with whom she had a difficult relationship, something she is unsettlingly candid about.
Read more ...Brad Bird's best animated family films
Thu, Jun 21, 2018
FROM HIS days with The Simpsons, to writing and directing with Pixar, Brad Bird has been at the forefront of animation for the past 30 years, and the Pálás Cinema is celebrating the man with a season of his films.
Read more ...The Belly Of The Whale to open Galway Film Fleadh 2018
Wed, Jun 20, 2018
THE BELLY Of The Whale, the debut film from director Morgan Bushe, and starring Michael Smiley, Pat Shortt, and Game of Thrones' Art Parkinson, will open this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Cinema review: Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom
Films Reviews Thu, Jun 14, 2018
THE ORIGINAL Jurassic Park is, in my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made. Based on the best selling Michael Crichton novel, it was an all-star team of great actors, with director Steven Spielberg at the absolute top of his game.
Read more ...Cinema review: DeadPool 2
Films Reviews Thu, May 24, 2018
DEADPOOL IS mourning the loss of the love of his life and, despite several attempts at suicide, due to his healing mutant power he cannot seem to be reunited in the afterlife with her.
Read more ...A Scottish adventure - written by a Galwaywoman - to be shown at The Eye
Wed, May 23, 2018
OPENING THIS weekend at the Eye Cinema is Edie, scripted by Galway writer Elizabeth O'Halloran and starring Sheila Hancock. Set in Scotland, it features Hancock in the performance of her career, as Edie, a cantankerous mountain climber.
Read more ...The dark lord on-screen - a season of Nick Cave
Thu, May 17, 2018
IF YOU cannot make it to Nick Cave's concert with Patti Smith in Kilmainham in June, you can enjoy a week of concert films and documentaries on the Australian genius at the Palás Cinema.
Read more ...Cinema review: Revenge
Films Reviews Thu, May 17, 2018
JEN IS a young American socialite brought by her married lover, Richard, for a weekend away in a desert villa. When Richard's friends turn up early - the day before she’s supposed to leave - things start to go wrong for Jen.
Read more ...Banff Mountain Film Festival 2018
Thu, May 10, 2018
ADVENTURERS ON mind-blowing journeys of courage and endurance, in the most remote, spectacular, and extreme corners of the globe, will be be on screen at the Town Hall Theatre when the Banff Mountain Film Festival 2018 returns to Galway.
Read more ...Cinema review: The Delinquent Season
Films Reviews Thu, May 10, 2018
THE LIVES of two middle-class married couples in Dublin are thrown into disarray when two of the group begin an affair in the new Irish film, The Delinquent Season.
Read more ...Macbeth to be screened at The Eye
Thu, May 03, 2018
MACBETH, SHAKESPEARE'S dark and violent drama of political ambition, betrayal, murder, assassination, corruption, and greed, is being staged by Britain's National Theatre, and will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
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