Jameson Cult Film Club returns to Galway

Wed, Oct 29, 2014

NOT CONTENT with wiping out one group of teenage friends, the Camp Crystal Lake killer returns to the Packanack Lodge to dispense with more unfortunate holiday-makers.

Cinema review: Fury

Films Reviews Tue, Oct 28, 2014

AROUND THIS time of year we get our first look at the Oscar contenders. While the heavy hitters tend to emerge at the end of December and January, sometimes more genre based releases, like Gravity last year, are released a few weeks early.

Cinema review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 20, 2014

Everyone who grew up in the nineties remembers the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Turtles, like Pogs, were certainly part of my childhood. In the world we live in of remakes, reboots, and sequels I cannot believe it has taken this long for a new live action Ninja Turtles picture (there was a animated movie TMNT in 2007 that went straight to DVD). The original movies from the early 90s were massive successes, in fact when the first film came out in 1990 it was the second highest grossing indie movie of all time. Sadly these films have not aged well which leaves the franchise ripe for a reboot. Unfortunately for us, producer Michael Bay has got his hands on the project and if his treatment of the Transformers franchise is anything to go by this will not end well.

Three teens journey into the unknown

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THREE GUATEMALAN teens Juan, Sara, Samuel, and Chauk, a Tzotzil Indian, attempt to trek 1,200 miles into the USA, via Mexico in search of a better life.

The Marriage of Figaro @ The Eye

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE NEW York Metropolitan Opera’s production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro is being broadcast to The Eye Cinema this weekend.

Love, Rosie competition winners

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE WINNERS to this week’s preview screening of Love, Rosie at The Eye were:

Why Not? film festival - Let the adventure begin!

Wed, Oct 15, 2014

GET READY to sail to the Arctic, stand atop rugged mountainous peaks and descend with adventurers deep in the heart of vast canyons, when the Why Not? Adventure Film Festival comes to Galway.

Cinema review: Gold

Films Reviews Tue, Oct 14, 2014

IFTA AWARD winning director Niall Heery’s latest film Gold is a wonderfully well worked comedy-drama set in rural Ireland.

Films from opposite ends of the Mediterranean

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

MOHAMAD MALAS’S first film in almost a decade and a French film about an actor coming out of retirement will be screened in Galway this weekend.

Macbeth - opera at The Eye

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

GIUSEPPI VERDI’S operatic version of Shakespeare’s dark drama of murder, violence, and lust for power, Macbeth, will be screened at The Eye.

Win tickets to Love, Rosie special screening

Tue, Oct 07, 2014

LOVE, ROSIE, the film version of Cecelia Ahern’s novel, Where Rainbows End, will have a special preview screening at The Eye Cinema on Tuesday October 14 at 7pm.

Cinema review: Gone Girl

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 06, 2014

GILLIAN FLYNN’S 2012 best-seller Gone Girl was just waiting to be made into a movie. It is so well constructed with twists and revelations coming fast and frequent you could smell the popcorn popping with each chapter. The concern for book readers was, who is going to make a story of two unsympathetic, spoiled, and frankly unlikable, millennials into a mainstream Hollywood movie without losing its dark originality?

Films From The Southern Mediterranean

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FROM ISRAEL to Morocco, Galway audiences will get a chance to experience life through the lens of Southern Mediterranean film-makers this weekend.

New season of world cinema for Indreabhán

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

SWEDISH FILM We Are The Best kickstarts Club Scannán Sailearna’s world cinema screenings in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán.

Stephen Fry live @ The Eye

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

BRITISH NATIONAL treasure, actor, writer, comedian, raconteur, and polymath Stephen Fry will be ‘live on screen’ at The Eye Cinema.

Little Cinema Festival on this weekend

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

THE SHORT film will be celebrated in Galway at a new festival which takes place this weekend - the first Little Cinema Festival.

GFS to screen Iranian film The Past

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

IRANIAN DIRECTOR, Asghar Farhadi, follows the Oscar-winning drama A Separation with another study of modern family life in The Past.

Schumann and Brahms - live on screen

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

THE MUSIC of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms will be heard in The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, tomorrow at 6.30pm. The music will be performed by The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and broadcast via satellite to Galway. For more information and booking see www.eyecinema.ie or call 091 - 780078.

A bizarre (French) love triangle

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

CHINESE PUZZLE, the French film starring Audrey Tautou, is the opening film of the Galway Film Society’s autumn/winter season.

Emmy winning director to give actors workshop

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

EMMY AWARD winning director, Dearbhla Walsh, and leading casting director, Maureen Hughes are coming to Galway in October to tutor auditioning workshops.

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