An eye on AI at the Light House’s ‘More Human Than Human’ season

An eye on AI at the Light House’s ‘More Human Than Human’ season

The September season at the Light House Cinema offers a real celebration of artists and artistry, quite unlike the modern concept of AI and its data scraping plagiarism. During their More Human Than Human season, the Smithfield spot will be screening a succession of science fiction films that explore our relationship to technology, innovation and…

Stars gaze and named names blaze at cinemas this August in the fair city of film

Stars gaze and named names blaze at cinemas this August in the fair city of film

In the time it takes you to read this sentence it will have rained the heaviest amount in recorded history and hit temperatures so high as to dry everything off again. Irish seasons are becoming even more unpredictable than ever, and August, a bewildering holiday limbo of summer/autumn indecisiveness remains a seasonal uncertainty, but at…

Fall in love with Fallout season at the IFI this July

Fall in love with Fallout season at the IFI this July

The Irish Film Institute has taken the nuclear option for programming this summer. Their Fallout season runs July 1st – 30th, with a selection of films providing an international perspective on arms ahead of Oppenheimer. This July, the Irish Film Institute has curated Fallout, a season of films and documentaries exploring the international perspectives on the subject…

Subjective Cinema at the Light House’s Rashomon Effect Season

Subjective Cinema at the Light House’s Rashomon Effect Season

A season of films that bring to mind the Rashomon Effect will be screening at the Smithfield cinema in January. At least, that’s the way they tell it. Akira Kurosawa’s hugely influential 1950 historical drama is returning to cinemas in January; an unconventional, interesting and radical film that has rippled out into many great films…

Valentines, Galentines and everything in between at the Light House Cinema

Valentines, Galentines and everything in between at the Light House Cinema

Whether you’re into vals, gals, pals, alls or n’alls, there’s something to see across the Kinsey scale of kino this Valentine’s Day weekend at the Light House Cinema. The Smithfield cinema is celebrating the season with a line-up of heartfelt films guaranteed to make your heart “ache, break and shake.” From rom-coms to thrillers, there’s…