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FROM THE director of The Cell and The Fall (Tarsem Singh) and the producers of 300 (Gianni Nunnari, Mark Canton) comes Immortals, an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny.

HAVING READ the best selling novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett, I was sceptical about the film adaptation, as I was confident the film would not capture the pure brilliance of the book.

THE CUCKOO Club Galway, a new night promoting original music, opens in De Burgos, Augustine Street, tonight, at 8pm.

On Friday November 4, at 8pm, Ballina Arts Centre will present Fishamble Theatre Company’s Forgotten, a powerful piece of theatre written and performed by Pat Kinevane.

Athlone Film Club are delighted to present the deeply moving and profoundly beautiful French film, Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) on Tuesday October 18 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre.

The sinking of the Titanic continues make to headlines as though the world is still coming to terms with it. With the 100th anniversary of one of the world’s worst maritime disasters just six months away it seems many stories that has disappeared into the mists of times are slowly been recovered.

Like an elf picking his way across a dangerous river, all he has to do is look out for the small smooth stepping stones, ignoring the tempting delights of the seemingly innocuous rocks which carry within them potential slips that could see him splash into the water. And before each leap, he must take a look left and then right. And if he can do that, then the gates of the Phoenix Park will beckon before him, the lush grass inviting him inside, rewarding him for a lifetime of service. Yes, that is just how close Galway is to having its first ever Uachtarain na hEireann. For a county that has provided leaders in almost every other sphere apart from Taoiseach and President, it is now very likely that Michael D will go into the last few weeks of the election campaign with the prize being his to lose. Althought there is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, the manner in which the presidential debate has descended into verbal street-fighting has done a lot of the work for the Labour candidate.

Athlone Film Club continues its autumn/winter season on Tuesday October 4 with Oranges and Sunshine, a powerful and deeply moving understated account of a major social injustice that went unreported for many years.

The next screening of the Westport Film Club will take place in Westport Cineplex on Wednesday October 5 at 8.45pm with a screening of Beginners. From Mike Mills, the writer/director of Thumbsucker, comes a new comedy drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even in its most serious moments. Beginners unfolds through two intertwined storylines of Oliver and his father, Hal: in the present day, Oliver grudgingly attends a Halloween party where he meets Anna, an alluring French actress. But even as their budding courtship progresses, Oliver finds himself constantly dwelling upon his recently deceased father’s last years. At the age of 75, shortly after the death of his wife, Oliver’s father Hal came out of the closet.

MY AFTERNOONS With Marguerite, starring Gérard Depardieu, will be the opening film for the autumn season of World Cinema in Club Scannan Sailearna, Indreabhán.