Pálás Cinema's Sweet Lineup this Spring and Summer

Thu, Apr 20, 2023

The home of independent gems and cult favourites, Pálás Cinema has a stellar lineup for spring and summer - something for every type of film lover, including Director Q&A’s and live streamed events.

The Japanese Film Festival Ireland returns to Galway this month

Thu, Apr 06, 2023

The Japanese Film Festival Ireland returns for its 14th edition this month, bringing the best of Japanese cinema to audiences across Ireland. The festival will screen films in Galway between Thursday April 30 and Sunday April 23 in the Pálás and between Monday April 24 and Friday April 28 in the Eye Cinema.

Highlights from this year’s programme include the multi-award-winning drama A Man, the acclaimed ‘tokusatsu’ superhero reboot Shin Ultraman, delectable ramen documentary Come Back Anytime, and new anime features like Suzume, Blue Thermal and The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes.

Celebrate EYE Cinema’s 18th Birthday this Friday March 17 with €8 tickets

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

On March 17 2005, the EYE Cinema in Wellpark opened its doors to an excited bunch of Galwegians, curious to see what this shiny new cinema in town had to offer. Since then, the EYE has bloomed into Galway city's ‘Home of Cinema’.

Celebrate International Women’s Day with radical painter Mary Cassatt at the EYE Cinema

Thu, Mar 02, 2023

On Wednesday March 8, the EYE Cinema is marking International Women’s Day with a special one-night-only screening from the Exhibition on Screen programme of the documentary ‘Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman’.

Silver Screen - Cocaine Bear

Thu, Mar 02, 2023

Cocaine Bear came out last week in Irish cinemas. It’s one of those movies that I would consider entirely review/critic proof. I really think if you hear the title of the film you have a pretty good idea if it’s a movie you will enjoy or not. A bit like Snakes On A Plane in 2006. It blew up the internet a few months ago with an absolutely sensational trailer with the song White Lines by Melle Mel and I’ve been looking forward to it since then.

GUMS presents The Addams Family

Thu, Mar 02, 2023

Performed by the Galway University Musical Society, The Addams Family is a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family.

Indreabhán Film Society's Spring Season Continues

Thu, Mar 02, 2023

Club Scannán Sailearna's spring season of world cinema continues with German film The Ordinaries, shown in partnership with the Dublin International Film Festival, this Thursday March 2 in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, at 8.15pm.

Spring Season launches at the Pálás

Thu, Feb 09, 2023

Spring season has arrived at the Pálás, courtesy of Galway Film Society. The season, which begins on Sunday February 12, will include eight films, and will represent a range of new award-winning titles from across the globe.

The Royal Opera Is Back In Eye Cinema With The Barber Of Seville

Thu, Feb 09, 2023

If you haven't had the pleasure yet of seeing the Royal Opera work their magic, now's the time - The Barber of Seville is streaming live on the big screen at Eye Cinema on Wednesday, February 15.

When Rosina falls in love with a mysterious young suitor who calls himself Lindoro, she must use all her cunning – and a little help from her local barber – to outwit her calculating guardian Dr Bartolo. Expect heart-melting serenades, ridiculous disguises and a fairytale ending waiting just out of reach.

Clare musician plays 'The Eyrecourt Jig' on upcoming film

Thu, Feb 09, 2023

Niall Crehan is the youngest son of the accomplished Clare whistle and concertina player Vincent Crehan. With the support of his father, Niall was a highly proficient violinist from a young age in both Irish traditional music and classical music. He won the Father Matthew feis in under 14's and also won a multitude of competitions in the fleadh with groupí ceol, and also in slow air competitions.

The best from Spielberg in a long time

Films Reviews Thu, Feb 02, 2023

It hasn’t been a great decade for Steven Spielberg, I really didn’t enjoy last years West Side Story and the film he directed before, Ready Player One, was the worst film he’s ever made. Last year, like plenty of other directors, he’s gone for a little introspection. He’s wrote something about his own life and made an autobiographical film about his childhood. A little like Kenneth Branagh with Belfast last year.

Naughty or Nice Christmas season at Pálás Cinema

Thu, Dec 15, 2022

If you haven't quite gotten your fill of festive films yet, Pálás Cinema's Naughty or Nice Christmas season continues throughout December with a whole host of classics from Christmas in Connecticut to Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, and even a Die Hard (yes it's a Christmas film!), Nakatomi Plaza Party on Saturday night (December 17).

Enjoy the Met in Galway cinemas

Thu, Dec 08, 2022

The Met: Live in HD series has made the Met the world’s leading provider of alternative cinema content and the only arts institution with an ongoing global series of this scale.

She Said — a matter of fact film that could win an Oscar

Thu, Dec 01, 2022

'She Said' one of the first big Oscar contenders released this year. It’s a great time of year for movies as we get all the films the studios have saved to be released just as awards seasons begins.

Irish documentary How To Tell A Secret to be shown in the Pálás on December 1, World Aids Day

Thu, Nov 24, 2022

Robbie Lawlor was diagnosed with HIV at 21 and became one of the youngest people to come out on Irish television. Enda McGrattan, also known as Veda, promised to keep their HIV status a secret for a decade but eventually broke free by releasing a song. And a group of Irish and migrant women, who cannot show their faces, found creative ways to have their voices heard...

Naughty or nice — festive film treats at the Pálás Cinema

Thu, Nov 24, 2022

We can't say it is Christmas time until we are cheering on Kevin McCallister’s New York hijinks in Home Alone 2, getting lost watching Jimmy Stewart running around Bedford Falls in It's A Wonderful Life or witnessing John McClane singlehandedly taking on Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

EYE Cinema screening of The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby

Thu, Nov 10, 2022

"There is something healing about watching Ingoldsby, a man who is both outside of and ahead of his time, battling against the tide of 1960s (and onwards) Irish conformity." The Irish Times

La Traviata screening in Galway cinemas this Saturday

Thu, Nov 03, 2022

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, continues with Verdi’s La Traviata, starring soprano Nadine Sierra as one of opera’s ultimate heroines, the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta, on Saturday 5 November at 4:55pm when the opera will be screened across The Eye Cinema, Palas and Omniplex Salthill.

This Halloween, take your chance to revisit the golden era of horror cinema from the thirties, forties and fifties, as Pálás Cinema presents ‘Silver Scream’ - a season of cla

Thu, Oct 20, 2022

On planning the vintage spook season, new cinema programmer at Pálás, William Fitzgerald said, “These are the originals, or at least the quintessential versions of these characters – the movies that inspired so many others and had such a lasting impact on popular culture. These iconic portrayals by Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein and The Mummy, Lon Chaney as The Wolfman and Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein, are the ones still immortalised every Halloween in costumes, in imagery, and in our imaginations.”

Irish National Opera presents The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts in three Galway cinemas -the Eye cinema, the Omniplex i

Thu, Oct 20, 2022

The season kicks off with Cherubini’s thrilling opera, Medea, on Saturday 22 October.

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