Every Monday, Film In Dublin brings you the highlights of the week ahead in Dublin cinemas. Festivals, screenings, premieres, quizzes or even a showing of some opera, get ready to fill up your day planners. You can’t do it all but with our guide you’ll never have nothing to do.

On the 20th of December 1909, James Joyce opened the Volta Picture Theatre on Mary Street in Dublin, the first dedicated cinema in Ireland. Joyce’s love of European cinema was not shared by the average cinema-goer and he quickly grew disillusioned with the project, but it’s safe to say 107 years later that the people…

Ten years ago, teen noir Brick was released theatrically in the US in just two cinemas, which may seem like an inauspicious debut, except the film had already won a Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Festival. ‘Originality of Vision’ is a good way to describe the film, which placed a hardboiled detective…

Congratulations are in order as it was announced last week that Hasbro, Inc has acquired Boulder Media, a multi-award winning Irish animation company based in Dublin.

Film In Dublin goes through the TV guide to find the best films on Irish channels this week.

All summer long, the Light House Cinema is hosting Films You’d Love Your Kids To See, a selection of childhood favourites guaranteed to bring memories flooding back and get the nostalgia flowing. It’s a great opportunity to introduce a whole new generation to some cinematic classics on the big screen, and Film In Dublin has…

The untimely loss of Alan Rickman to pancreatic cancer has cost us more performances from one of the acting world’s most dependable actors.

When every glance at the news these days reinforces that the nightmare that is real life has only just begun, the prospect of being sacrificed in a pagan ritual begins to look like a relative comfort. With that in mind, the Irish Film Institute is offering some escapism in the coming weeks with an exciting…