Little Cinema to screen Patrick's Day

Thu, May 21, 2015

TERRY MCMAHON, the director of the acclaimed Irish film Patrick's Day, is coming to Galway to attend a screening of the movie and take part in a Q&A with the public.

Just who were The Impressionists?

Thu, May 21, 2015

THE IMPRESSIONISTS, the French movement that heralded the beginnings of modern art in the late 19th century, are among the world's best loved painters, whose works sell for millions of dollars.

Helen Mirren, and culinary worlds colliding

Mon, May 18, 2015

HELEN MIRREN stars as the rather less than friendly owner of a posh restaurant who does not like the idea of an Indian restaurant opening opposite hers in The Hundred-Foot Journey which is being screened in the Town Hall Theatre this evening at 8pm.

Cinema review - Mad Max

Films Reviews Mon, May 18, 2015

THE TRAILER for Mad Max: Fury Road is the best 2 minutes 30 seconds YouTube has to offer, indeed it is the best trailer I’ve ever seen. In the past I’ve been burned by great trailers. A good trailer can build up what you think will be a great movie and deliver only a good or sometimes a terrible one - I’m looking at you Godzilla and crappy Miami Vice reboot. So does Mad Max live up to the best trailer ever? Oh yes.

See Ralph Feinnes in Galway

Wed, May 13, 2015

RALPH FIENNES, the Oscar nominated British actor, will play Jack Tanner in George Bernard Shaw’s witty, provocative, classic Man & Superman, which can be seen in The Eye Cinema tomorrow evening - May 14 - at 7pm.

Galway African Film Festival returns next week

Tue, May 12, 2015

THE GALWAY African Film Festival, the city's annual celerbration of movies and film-making from across the African continent, returns from Friday May 22 to Sunday 24, with a host of free screenings taking place in NUI Galway's Huston School of Film & Digital Media.

GMIT film student to have short film screened at Cannes

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

A short film by a young Galway-based filmmaker, Luke Morgan, has been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner. Morgan is a third year student on the BA (hons) in film and documentary at GMIT’s Centre for Creative Arts & Media (CCAM).

Oscar-winner Walter Murch is coming to Galway

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

OSCAR WINNING film editor and sound designer Walter Murch, who has worked on The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is coming to Galway next month.

Opera double bill @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and Pagliacci, two classics of opera, are being performed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and will be broadcast to The Eye Cinema, this Saturday at 5.30pm.

Cobain: Montage Of Heck - second showing at IMC on Wednesday

Mon, Apr 20, 2015

COBAIN: MONTAGE Of Heck, the extraordinary new documentary on the life of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will get a second screening at the IMC Galway cinema this week. Owing to overwhelming public demand, the film, written and directed by Brett Morgen, with Kurt’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, as executive producer, will be screened this Wednesday [April 22] at 8.30pm.

Cinema review: Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Films Reviews Mon, Apr 13, 2015

IT IS so hard to write about comedies. Comedy is, of course, incredibly subjective. It is, however, not hard to write about comedy sequels as they are nine out or 10 times complete rubbish.

Vincent Van Gogh on screen @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

TO MARK the 125th anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh’s death, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum is hosting a major re-showing of the gallery’s collection of works by the much loved artist.

Japanese Film Festival - movies for the cherry blossom season

Tue, Apr 07, 2015

FROM ANIME to historical comedies, stories of financial corruption to all kinds of romance, the seventh annual Japanese Film Festival promises a programme of acclaimed new Japanese cinema from some of the country’s leading directors and actors.

IMC Galway to screen Cobain: Montage Of Heck

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

COBAIN: MONTAGE Of Heck, the new film on Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will be screened in the IMC Cinema, Headford Road on Friday April 10 at 8.30pm.

Cinema review: Cinderella

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 30, 2015

KENNETH BRANAGH’S career continues to mystify me. In the early 1990s he was the poster boy for the RADA’s new wave, his peers included Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, and Jonathan Pryce, but it was Branagh who catapulted to fame first through adapting, directing, and acting in big budget adaptations of Shakespeare.

Israeli film-maker to speak in Galway

Wed, Mar 25, 2015

ISRAELI FILM-MAKER and journalist Yotam Feldman will be in Galway next week for a screening of his award winning documentary, The Lab, which examines how the military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank has become a profitable asset for Israel.

Cinema review: Wild Card

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 23, 2015

TWO ACTION movies are released this weekend, and while The Gunman with Sean Penn seems to have the bigger advertising budget, Wild Card, with the always watchable Jason Statham, was the one that caught my eye.

Q&A with Christine Noble @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

CHRISTINA NOBEL and Ciarín Scott, director of the Irish documentary, In A House That Ceased To Be, will be in The Eye Cinema this Saturday

Christina and Ciarín, in conversation with Hotpress journalist Olaf Tyaransen, will discuss In A House That Ceased To Be, which will also be screened, and take part in a Q&A with the audience.

Spongebob as Gaeilge @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

THE SPONGEBOB Movie: Sponge Out of Water will be available to audiences as Gaeilge and in English when it hits The Eye Cinema screens on Friday March 27.