The 1970s saw the arrival in cinemas of some of the greatest horror films of all time, resonant evils that still linger in the minds of viewers a half century later. This spooky season, these scares will return to the screen in Smithfield, as the Light House Cinema’s Waking Nightmares programme offers homage to some…
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…
The Irish Film Institute’s annual Documentary Festival returns from 27th September – 1st October and the full programme is available now. Across the five days of the festival, 13 features and a variety of Irish-made short films will be seen, and you can read through the full programme now HERE. Today the Irish Film Institute…
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…
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…
On 21st July 2023, the Barbie movie will be arriving in Irish cinemas. Already it’s already attracted no shortage of excitement and intrigue, in part because of the director behind it, one of the very best in the game today, Greta Gerwig. Empathetic and involved, Gerwig’s work both in front of and behind the camera…
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…
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…
