Buster Keaton and Contempo - together

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

STEP BACK in time to the cinema of the 1920s, when films had no soundtrack and were accompanied by live music, when the classic 1926 silent film The General is screened in Galway.

Trouble on the farm

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

FRANCE, 1915. The men are away at war, and women like Hortense and her daughter Solange, are manning the homefront, and taking charge of the running of the farm.

Wealthy sisters fallen on hard times

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

CHELA AND Chiquita are a formerly wealthy couple now forced to sell some of their inherited possessions. When Chiquita is imprisoned for fraud, Chela must embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Lady Gaga on course for an Oscar with A Star Is Born

Films Reviews Thu, Oct 11, 2018

AGEING, GRIZZLY, self-destructive, country singer Jackson Maine’s (Bradley Cooper) career is on the slide. An alcoholic, he is starting to lose his hearing and his passion.

The Met Opera returns to The Eye

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

TWO OPERAS by Giuseppe Verdi - Aida and La Traviata - will be performed as part of The Metropolitan Theatre's new 2018/2019 season, which will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Ailbhe Griffith and Alan Gilsenan to attend screening of The Meeting at The Eye Cinema

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

THE DIRECTOR Alan Gilsenan, Ailbhe Griffith, and the cast of the acclaimed new Irish film, The Meeting, will attend a screening of the film and take part in a public Q&A this evening aty 7pm in The Eye Cinema.

A peek into crazy rich lifestyles of insane luxury

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 27, 2018

BASED ON Kevin Kwan's best selling novel of the same name, Crazy Rich Asians is the highest grossing rom-com since the Sex In The City film, and the first Hollywood movie since Joy Luck Club with an all-Asian cast and director.

The next best thing to seeing Thelonious Monk on stage

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

THELONIOUS MONK, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, The Jimmy Guiffre Trio, and Mahalia Jackson - where could you have seen such an extraordinary line up of jazz and gospel musicians?

The Silver Branch - for the love of The Burren

Mon, Sep 24, 2018

PATRICK MCCORMACK is a poet, philosopher, and farmer. He is also the owner of ‘Fr Ted’s House’ in the Burren, County Clare, and is the subject of a film, which ponders a disappearing way of life, and our connections to the natural world.

Lenny Abrahamson to attend Pálás screening of The Little Stranger

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

ONE OF Ireland's leading film-makers, the Oscar nominated Lenny Abrahamson, will be in the Pálás cinema this weekend for a special screening of his new film, The Little Stranger, and take part in a public Q&A.

Predator - not as much fun as he was in the 1990s

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 20, 2018

THE PREDATOR is back on our screens, and why not? Every other moderately successful film from the 1980s and 1990s is getting a sequel, prequel, or reboot. It was only a matter of time before it came to Predator.

Faith, family, and dogs - Galway Film Society's new season

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

FILMS FROM Palestine and Paraguay; stories of faith, family, and dog grooming; and an Ingmar Berman classic, will be screened by the Galway Film Society during it's new season, in it's new home of the Pálás Cinema.

A Nun too good horror

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 13, 2018

IN A church in Romania in 1952 a nun commits suicide. Sensing something sinister the Vatican sends an exorcist and a young nun to investigate. The mysteries, however, are only just beginning.

The Merry Wives of Windsor at The Eye

Thu, Sep 06, 2018

WRITTEN BY Shakespeare in about 1597, The Merry Wives of Windsor, the bard's comedy of middle-class English life, is set to receive a contemporary setting in a new performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Cinema review: Upgrade

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 06, 2018

SET IN the not too distant future, Grey Trace is a technosceptic, stay at home car mechanic, who specialises in old fashioned muscle cars in a world of driverless iPhone like vehicles.

A French start to new Galway Film Society season

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

THE GALWAY Film Society's new season of screenings takes place in September, in the society's new home of the Pálás, with a new format and new start time.

Cinema review: BlacKkKlansman

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 30, 2018

BASED ON the true story of Ron Stallworth, the first black police officer in Colorado Springs and who managed to infiltrate the Klu Klux Klan, BlacKkKlansman feels like a spiritual successor to director Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing.

See Casablanca on the big screen

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

"OF ALL the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." "We'll always have Paris." "Play it, Sam." It is one of the greatest films of all time, one of the most loved, and filled with memorable quotes. It is Casablanca.

Film review: The Festival

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 23, 2018

WHEN OUR hero Nick is dumped publicly at his graduation, his best friend Shane insists they go on a rite of passage by attending a music festival, and doing loads of drugs in a muddy field in the middle of England - this is basically The Festival's entire premise.

Seeking Galway young filmmakers for new scheme

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

DIG WHERE You Stand 2018, the documentary funding scheme for young filmmakers in Galway city and county, is seeking submissions, and is open to anyone based in Galway under 35.

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