Cinema Review: Blade Runner 2049

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 09, 2017

BLADE RUNNER 2049 is the sequel to 1982 classic Blade Runner. The 2049 is the year the sequel is set. So, don't worry, you haven’t missed Blade Runner the other 2047 sequels. Am I the first person to make that joke? Probably.

Sky Road Film Festival features an exciting lineup, the festival takes place on Saturday October 14th!

Fri, Oct 06, 2017

This year's Sky Road Film Festival features an exciting lineup, the festival takes place on Saturday October 14th at the Station House Theatre in Clifden, Co Galway.

Met Opera returns to Eye Cinema

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THE METROPOLITAN Opera in New York's 2017–18 season opens this Saturday at 5.55pm with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as the druid priestess, and Joyce DiDonato as her rival, Adalgisa.

The street cats of Istanbul

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

CAT LOVERS are in for a treat when Kedi, the 2016 Turkish film, about the street cats of Istanbul, is screened in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Junior Film Fleadh story pitching competition

Tue, Sep 19, 2017

GALWEGIANS AGED between eight and 16, who have an idea for a film, TV series, documentary, web series, video game, or animation, are being asked to submit a pitch for the 2017 Junior Film Fleadh Story Pitching Competition.

Cats, ghosts, and disastrous dinner parties

Thu, Sep 14, 2017

TURKISH CATS, a dinner party that goes wrong, spiritual journeys, haunted houses, mysterious strangers, and moral dilemmas - all will feature in the impressive line-up of movies from around the world, that make up the Galway Film Society's autumn/winter 2017 season.

Yerma live from the National Theatre to the Eye Cinema

Thu, Aug 31, 2017

The acclaimed West End production Yerma will be broadcast to the Eye Cinema from National Theatre Live tonight at 7pm.

Galway City of Film presents a One Minute Film Festival special for Culture Night 2017

Thu, Aug 31, 2017

Galway City of Film in partnership with Galway Film Centre is presenting a special screening of the One Minute Film Festival for Culture Night 2017 at An Taibhdhearc on Friday September 22.

Thirty films of all genres will be screened including documentary, live action, art-house, and animation. These super short films pack a punch proving that a really great story can be told in just one minute.

Godzilla on the rampage

Wed, Aug 09, 2017

WHAT STARTS as a peaceful day in Tokyo is turned into a living nightmare when a massive, gilled monster emerges from the sea depths and tears through the Japanese capital, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake - another typical day for Godzilla.

Titus Andronicus live at The Eye

Thu, Aug 03, 2017

SHAKESPEARE WAS never afraid to have plenty of violence and killing in his plays, but Titus Andronicus, which is being staged by The Royal Shakespeare Company in London, just may be his most bloody.

Angels In America - Live at The Eye

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

ANGELS IN America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning, two-part play, running in Britain's National Theatre, will be broadcast live to Galway

Take a Long Strange Trip with the Grateful Dead

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE GRATEFUL Dead's music "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists," said Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye; while Allmusic.com called them, "the ultimate cult band, creating a self-styled universe all their own".

Galway actor joins new Channel 4 comedy series

Mon, Jul 10, 2017

GALWAY ACTOR Nicola Coughlan, and Galway based comedian Tommy Tiernan, are set to star in a new comedy series from the producers of Father Ted - Derry Girls, which comes to Channel 4 later this year.

Galway film Wild Fire Nights to premiere @ Fleadh

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

WILD FIRE Nights, a hard-hitting contemporary drama written and directed by Galway actor Emma Eliza Regan, receives its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh when it is screened as part of the Way Out West strand.

Galway film Sanctuary opens nationwide tomorrow

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

SANCTUARY, the Galway made film, starring actors from Munster Avenue's Blue Teapot Theatre Company, with a screenplay by Galway writer Christian O'Reilly, opens in cinemas tomorrow.

Galway director's new short for the Fleadh

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

QED, A new short film by Galway actor, writer, and director Amy-Joyce Hastings - exploring the theme of sacrificial love, and asking the question 'What won't love do?' - has its world premiere at the 29th Galway Film Fleadh.

The black comedy of Mayo's struggle to win Sam

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

WHEN THE victorious All-Ireland Mayo football team won the Sam Maguire in 1951 they passed through Foxford on the journey home. However they failed to wait quietly for a funeral cortège to pass by.

Galway Film Fleadh - special guests and masterclasses

Tue, Jul 04, 2017

MICHAEL SMILEY, the Irish actor who has performed in A Field In England, Doctor Who, Glassland, and who even appears in Star Wars: Rogue One, will give the Actors' Masterclass at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.

Linda Bhreathnach's new film to premiere at the Fleadh

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

LINDA BHREATHNACH, who impressed at last year's Galway Film Fleadh with Adulting, returns with her new film Native, starring Patrick Bergin, which will be screened at the 2017 fleadh.

Debuts feature films at the Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh is never short of world premieres and directorial debuts, and among the films to be screened are new works by Irish film-makers Tom Collins and Nick Kelly.

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