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.

C4's Derry Girls and the Galway connection

Tue, Jan 02, 2018

THIS THURSDAY, Channel 4 begins broadcasting Derry Girls, a new comedy series set in Derry city in the 1990s - but despite it's Northern Irish setting, the show has strong Galway connections as it stars Galway born Nicola Coughlan, and Galway based comedian Tommy Tiernan.

Welcome to The Party

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

AN ALL-STAR cast - Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Bruno Gantz, and Emily Morimer - star in The Party which will be screened by the Galway Film Society this weekend.

Brass Eye - behind the scenes with Michael Cumming

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

BRASS EYE was a British comedy series which parodied current affairs shows. It ran for seven episodes on Channel 4 between 1997 and 2001, and featured such writers as Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan, Charlie Brooker, and David Quantick.

Film of a family in crisis

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

ROMEO, MAGDA, and teenage daughter Eliza live in a neglected apartment in northwest Romania. When Eliza is assaulted just prior to taking her final exams, her scholarship to study psychology in the UK is put into jeopardy.

Cinema review: Happy Death Day

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 23, 2017

HAPPY DEATH Day is billed as Scream meets Groundhog Day, which is a great idea. The Groundhog Day motif worked really well in 2014’s Edge of Tomorrow and in an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It is a concept that lends itself well to a slasher movie.

Help support new Galway short film

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

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

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