Podcasts about Lighthouse Cinema

In this Film Ireland podcast, we spotlight the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival, which is taking place 27-30 November 2024. First off, Gemma Creagh talks to Festival Director Mo O'Connell and Co-director Cathal Feeney about what we can look forward to. Followed by Mo talking to Tara Norris, whose comedy short Proposing to Ciara screens at the festival. Dublin International Comedy Film Festival Ireland's funniest film festival returns 27-30 November 2024 for its 5th iteration and promises some much needed winter levity with a programme of films, industry Q&A's, a live script comedy competition, networking events, live stand-up competition and awards. SCHEDULE: https://www.dublininternationalcomedyfilmfest.com/ TICKETS: https://filmfreeway.com/DublinInternationalComedyFilmFestivalDICFF/tickets The Dublin International Comedy Film Festival hits the Lighthouse Cinema once more on the 27th and 28th of November, then heads to the Complex for the first time! It will share its programme between the Lighthouse Cinema, the Complex in Smithfield, Dublin 7, the IFI, the Hendrick Hotel and Tailors Hall, D8. Activities take place from the 27th to the 30th November with a jam packed programme of comedy films, shorts & sketches from Ireland & around the globe. There's also a terrific line up of comedy acts with Bernard O'Shea, Kevin McGahern and Joe Rooney. Joe Rooney will also judge the inaugural DICFF Stand-Up Competition that DICFF have been running throughout the year, culminating in the finals on 28th & 30th November at the Hendrick Hotel & the Complex, respectively. https://filmireland.net/

Podcaster and content creator Aoibh Carroll joins me to discuss Twilight.Listen to Please Shut Up wherever you get podcasts!Follow Aoibh on Instagram and TikTok!Get tickets to the Twilight marathon at Lighthouse Cinema! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's visiting critic is writer Amanda Brunker. Amanda went to the premiere of Kneecap at the Lighthouse Cinema and reviews the film.

Director Joe Lee, Justice for the Forgotten group member Margaret Urwin and survivor Brenda Lee joined Off the Ball Breakfast to discuss the new documentary about the Dublin Monaghan Bombings which resulted in the greatest loss of life in any single day of the Troubles, as they still seek justice for those lives lost almost 50 years ago. The film premieres tonight, Friday May 10th, in a special screening in the Lighthouse Cinema at 8pm. More screenings will be shown next week at the IFI and The Garage Theatre in Monaghan.

For this weeks ep the lads ventured out to Lighthouse Cinema for the 2nd screening of the film 'King Frankie'. Starring Peter Coonan as Frankie, King Frankie follows the life of Frank Burke following the death of his father, the past catches up with the Dublin taxi driver. Our sexy producer Liamo had his part to play in the film so we were honoured to attend the screening. We also talk Irish movie and TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are delighted to be partnering with Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) to bring you a series of podcasts with filmmakers featuring in this year's programme.  DIFF 2024 runs 22nd February – 2nd March. Explore the programme and get your tickets here. In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Nadim Cheikhrouha, Producer of Four Daughters. The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. After the disappearance of her two eldest daughters, Ben Hania calls upon professional actors to fill their absence, setting up an extraordinary film mechanism and unveiling an intimate story of womanhood. This hybrid documentary premiered at Cannes and was awarded the L'Œil d'or for best documentary. Directed & written by Kaouther Ben Hania Four Daughters screens on 1st March at The Lighthouse Cinema at 18:30 https://diff.ie/movie/four-daughters/

National Treasure and Irish acting legend Brendan Gleeson on Weekend Breakfast.Alison has not hidden the fact that Brendan is one of her absolute heroes. She spoke to him about his brand-new documentary, ‘Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes' and why he felt it was so important to record this period in his life and what trad music and a creative space is so important to humanity and Irish people in particular. He is a proud fiddle and mandolin player.Brendan also revealed his thoughts on the current Irish acting renaissance, Paddington 2 "I nearly sliced the finger off meself!" , Harry Potter, Smurf Movie, Joker 2 (he was amazed by Joaquin in first movie and signed by straight away to Folie A Deux once he knew Phoenix was attached) and loads more!‘Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's' documentary will make its world premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival on Friday 1st March followed by a Q&A with Brendan Gleeson.It will be released in the Lighthouse Cinema and Pálás Cinema Galway on March 2nd. For more see diff.ie.

We are thrilled to be partnering with Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) to bring you a series of podcasts with filmmakers featuring in this year's programme.  DIFF 2024 runs 22nd February – 2nd March. Explore the programme and get tickets here. In this Film Ireland Podcast, DIFF's Silver Screen Critics: Lorna Cady, Mutale Kampuni, Maureen Bushe, and Eileen Murphy discuss two of the films they watched as part of the programme. After a programme of features and shorts, the group discuss two documentaries, Bye Bye Tiberias and Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's. Bye Bye Tiberias screens on  1st Mar at The Lighthouse Cinema at 11:00 Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's screens on Fri 1st Mar at the Irish Film Institute at 18:30 https://diff.ie/ https://filmireland.net

In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Mark Adams, co-writer with Christopher Pickard of Cannes Uncut. Directed by Roger Penny and Richard Blanshard. The story of the glorious excesses, triumphs and failures of Cannes is one that demands to be told. Penny and Blanshard's documentary revels in the glamour, red carpets, parties and personalities which see the business of cinema implant itself on the French Riviera for two weeks every year. It ofers an exciting high-adrenaline, roller-coaster experience of what the film festival has come to represent over the years and what it might ofer in the future. Cannes Uncut screens on 27th February at The Lighthouse Cinema as pasrt of the Dublin International Film Festival. https://diff.ie/ https://filmireland.net/

Joe is joined by Limerick-based actor Joe Mullins to discuss the film he stars in, "The Line", which was created by Limerick filmmakers and is set to be shown at the Lighthouse Cinema on February 26th as part of the Dublin International Film Festival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are thrilled to be partnering with Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) to bring you a series of podcasts with filmmakers featuring in this year's programme.  DIFF 2024 runs 22nd February – 2nd March. Explore the programme and get tickets here. In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Kathleen Harris, Director of the documentary Birdsong. Ornithologist Seán Ronayne is on a mission to record the call of every bird species in Ireland – that's nearly 200 birds. At once inspiring and cautionary, his journey reveals the beauty and importance of sound, and what listening can tell us about the state of our natural world. Birdsong screens on Thursday, 29th February at The Lighthouse Cinema. https://diff.ie/ https://www.kathleencharris.com/ https://filmireland.net/

At the launch of The Dublin International Film Festival this week at The Lighthouse Cinema, Aedín had a quick chat with festival director Gra´inne Humphreys and asked her firstly why she chose ‘Twig' as her opening film (and its own world premiere).

We can't believe we've done 200 episodes of the podcast, but here we are. We got to celebrate this milestone in front of an amazing crowd at the FNI Fast Fest screening in The Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin last week. We sat down with Cathy Brady and Mark O'Connor and had a wonderful chat about the life of a filmmaker in Ireland today. Cathy Brady is a two-time IFTA-winning director, having won Best Short in 2011 for her first film Small Change and again in 2013 for Morning, which was also selected for the BFI London Film Festival 2012 and won the Short Film Nominee prize for the European Film Awards at Cork Film Festival. In 2011, Brady directed the BIFA nominated short Rough Skin (written by Laura Lomas and starring Vicky McClure) as part of Channel 4's Coming Up scheme. Her short film, Wasted, competed at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2013. In the same year, Brady was named one of Screen Daily's ‘Stars of Tomorrow'. In 2014, Brady directed on the BAFTA-nominated drama-thriller series Glue. Most recently, Brady directed Stefanie Preissner's TV comedy series Can't Cope/Won't Cope for Dead Pan Pictures and RTE, which is currently showing on BBC Three. Her debut feature as writer-director, Wildfire, is currently in development, and will be produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina (The Wonders, Cannes Grand Jury Prize 2014) along with Cowboy Films. Mark O' Connor is a graduate of Film Operations and Production from Ballyfermot College and directing from The New York Film Academy. He also holds a masters in screenwriting from IADT. Mark made over 60 short films, before writing and directing his debut feature film ‘Between the Canals'. Between the Canals was highly acclaimed with Film Ireland calling it “The best Irish film in a long long time”. It was the acting debut for Barry Keoghan and many of the cast went on to star in leading roles in the hit RTE television series ‘Love Hate'. Mark's second feature film ‘King of the travellers' was selected for festivals around the world and received a UK and Irish cinema and DVD release and was released in 150 territories worldwide on VOD. ‘Stalker', Mark's third feature film won the Underground Film Festival and Runner up Prize at the Galway Film festival. Mark's fourth feature film ‘Cardboard Gangsters' was the highest grossing Irish film of the year and received 5 stars reviews. It won 6 awards at the Manchester Film Festival including Best Film, Best Actor, Outstanding Cinematography, Outstanding Screenplay, Outstanding Director, and Film of the Festival. It also won Best Film at The Newport Beach Film Festival in Los Angeles. Worldwide rights to the film were bought by Netflix. Mark then wrote and directed a six-part crime drama for Virgin Media UK/Ireland called ‘Darklands'. It received critical acclaim and an average of 450,000 viewers per episode and was recently sold to Australian television network SBS. Mark is currently in development on a number of projects including a comedy drama ‘Oui Cannes' set in Ireland and France and is a major television series being produced by Samson Films. We're proud to support Minding Creative Minds here at Film Network Ireland. And will regularly be supporting their good work and will run an advert on our podcasts to raise awareness of their support structures on Wrapchat. Please visit https://mindingcreativeminds.ie/what-we-do/ Moreover, If you enjoy our podcast and events why not deep dive into our back catalogue and pop over to support us on buymeacoffe.com/fni and become a member, to get the most out of FNI. FNI Wrapchat is Produced by PBL, @paulbutlerlennox Paul Webster @paulwebsterfilms and Edited and Mixed by Mark Monks @mark_monks99 in the heart of Dublin City Centre at the Podcast Studios. @thepodcaststudios Check out Film Network Ireland at https://wearefni.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmnetworkireland https://twitter.com/fni_film

We can't believe we've done 200 episodes of the podcast, but here we are. We got to celebrate this milestone in front of an amazing crowd at the FNI Fast Fest screening in The Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin last week. We sat down with Cathy Brady and Mark O'Connor and had a wonderful chat about the life of a filmmaker in Ireland today. Cathy Brady is a two-time IFTA-winning director, having won Best Short in 2011 for her first film Small Change and again in 2013 for Morning, which was also selected for the BFI London Film Festival 2012 and won the Short Film Nominee prize for the European Film Awards at Cork Film Festival. In 2011, Brady directed the BIFA nominated short Rough Skin (written by Laura Lomas and starring Vicky McClure) as part of Channel 4's Coming Up scheme. Her short film, Wasted, competed at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2013. In the same year, Brady was named one of Screen Daily's ‘Stars of Tomorrow'. In 2014, Brady directed on the BAFTA-nominated drama-thriller series Glue. Most recently, Brady directed Stefanie Preissner's TV comedy series Can't Cope/Won't Cope for Dead Pan Pictures and RTE, which is currently showing on BBC Three. Her debut feature as writer-director, Wildfire, is currently in development, and will be produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina (The Wonders, Cannes Grand Jury Prize 2014) along with Cowboy Films. Mark O' Connor is a graduate of Film Operations and Production from Ballyfermot College and directing from The New York Film Academy. He also holds a masters in screenwriting from IADT. Mark made over 60 short films, before writing and directing his debut feature film ‘Between the Canals'. Between the Canals was highly acclaimed with Film Ireland calling it “The best Irish film in a long long time”. It was the acting debut for Barry Keoghan and many of the cast went on to star in leading roles in the hit RTE television series ‘Love Hate'. Mark's second feature film ‘King of the travellers' was selected for festivals around the world and received a UK and Irish cinema and DVD release and was released in 150 territories worldwide on VOD. ‘Stalker', Mark's third feature film won the Underground Film Festival and Runner up Prize at the Galway Film festival. Mark's fourth feature film ‘Cardboard Gangsters' was the highest grossing Irish film of the year and received 5 stars reviews. It won 6 awards at the Manchester Film Festival including Best Film, Best Actor, Outstanding Cinematography, Outstanding Screenplay, Outstanding Director, and Film of the Festival. It also won Best Film at The Newport Beach Film Festival in Los Angeles. Worldwide rights to the film were bought by Netflix. Mark then wrote and directed a six-part crime drama for Virgin Media UK/Ireland called ‘Darklands'. It received critical acclaim and an average of 450,000 viewers per episode and was recently sold to Australian television network SBS. Mark is currently in development on a number of projects including a comedy drama ‘Oui Cannes' set in Ireland and France and is a major television series being produced by Samson Films. We're proud to support Minding Creative Minds here at Film Network Ireland. And will regularly be supporting their good work and will run an advert on our podcasts to raise awareness of their support structures on Wrapchat. Please visit https://mindingcreativeminds.ie/what-we-do/ Moreover, If you enjoy our podcast and events why not deep dive into our back catalogue and pop over to support us on buymeacoffe.com/fni and become a member, to get the most out of FNI. FNI Wrapchat is Produced by PBL, @paulbutlerlennox Paul Webster @paulwebsterfilms and Edited and Mixed by Mark Monks @mark_monks99 in the heart of Dublin City Centre at the Podcast Studios. @thepodcaststudios Check out Film Network Ireland at https://wearefni.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmnetworkireland https://twitter.com/fni_film Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Film Ireland podcast, Paul Farren speaks to Author & Scholar Murray Pomerance about Alfred Hitchcock's timeless classic Vertigo. Murray Pomerance will be presenting at the Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: 65th Anniversary: 1958-2023 which takes place 21 – 23 August 2023 at Trinity College Dublin. The conference also includes a special screening of Vertigo in the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin on Sunday, 20th August at 8pm. www.vertigo65.com https://filmireland.net/

Amy Boland (10) from Nenagh met her Dance Hero Michael Flatley at the Irish Premiere screening of Michael Flatley's film ‘Blackbird at the Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin. Blackbird is the debut feature film from Michael Flatley in which he also stars as Victor Blackley, an ex M16 operative who is pulled back into the world he left when an agent connected to his past turns up to his place of business in Barbados. Amy and her dad Paddy joined Fran in studio,

The Lighthouse Cinema very kindly asked us to do a live episode as part of their Not Another Teen Season and we said absolutely yes of course we will. Alan and Andrea talked to the programmer at the Lighthouse, Charlene Lydon, about Pretty In Pink and we got into it. We had a long, enjoyable chat about every aspect of the film: the music, the dress, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts, all the important stuff. There was one Team Duckie person in the audience, one Team Steff, and everybody else was Team Blane so it was a diverse crowd. Thank you to our very incisive audience members who provided comments and questions at the end and thank you to everybody who came. Thanks again to the Lighthouse for inviting us. The clips from the movie we played were as follows: 1: An intro to the boys. Duckie and Andie in the hall. Steff and Andie at her car. Blane walking into the record store. 2: Blane buying the record from Andie. 3: Montage of Andie making the dress. 4: Andie confronts Blane at his locker. Charlene is @charlenelydon. She hosts Cinema Book Club at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Andrea is not on social media right now because she's stronger than us but you can find her on her podcasts My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia Thanks to Marius at the Lighthouse for running the clips and the recorder for us on the night. This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Comedian, Podcaster, and Twitch streamer Ashley Manning joins us to talk about one of the biggest Disney Channel shows of all time, That's So Raven. We talk about Raven-Symoné's amazing physical comedy, Anneliese van der Pol's amazing voice, the Undercover Superstar episode which indirectly led to High School Musical, the show's willingness to tackle big issues like body image and race head-on in a way other early noughties shows didn't, and lots more. Ashley is @AManComedian. She co-hosts The UTS Show, a chat show and podcast recorded live on Twitch. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Andrea is not on social media right now because she's stronger than us but you can find her on her podcasts My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. We're doing a live show on July 20th in the Lighthouse Cinema as part of their Not Another Teen Season. We'll be talking about Pretty In Pink with Lighthouse programmer Charlene Lydon. Tickets are available here. Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Will and Kevin head to Dublin for DIFF and their first-ever live show. Joining them at The Lighthouse Cinema is returning special guest Kate Dolan ("You Are Not My Mother") from Best Jump Scare and writer/director Conor McMahon ("Let the Wrong One In", "Stitches", and RTÉ's "Zombie Bashers").You can follow Kate on Twitter @caatdolan and Conor @Conor_Mc_Mahon.Will & Kevin would like to thank Dublin Internation Film Festival Director Grainne Humphreys (@Grainne_H) for inviting them to take part in this year's DIFF and organiser Caoimhe Martin for help with the event on the night. They'd also like to thank the Lighthouse staff, the tech team from Conference Services, and DIFF's hospitality team of Aideen Darcy, Nicola Staunton, Bobi Murray.Kevin would also like to give a special thanks to organiser Bobi for rescuing him at 7 a.m. when he went to the wrong airport and looked likely to miss the show.Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoy this episode. It really helps the show grow and allows others to discover it.And now you can support the show directly on Patreon and get an extra 25 bonus shows like film reviews, commentaries, and mini-episodes by clicking this link: patreon.com/bestbitspodcastThanks for listening!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-best-bits/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In this follow-up interview filmmaker, Daniel Troia, he discusses an upcoming free viewing at Lighthouse Cinema, in Pacific Grove.  This is a free event.  Donations are being asked to help support Gathering for Women, a local non-profit.  It aligns with his documentary bringing awareness to the homelessness across the nation.  You can also donate directly to the non-profit, www.gatheringforwomen.org

Will and Kevin are doing a live show on March 3rd at 6 p.m. at The Lighthouse Cinema as part of the Dublin International Film Festival! They'll be joined by special guests Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother) and Conor McMahon (Let The Wrong One In, Zombie Bashers, Stitches). Come along if you can! Tickets are on sale HERE.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-best-bits/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

June Bank Holiday weekend will be one of excitement for some businesses. On Monday, Pubs and cinemas will be among those allowed to throw open their doors to punters once again. We're joined by Charlene Lydon, from The Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin's Smithfield, and Daniel Smith, a bar man in Grogan's pub in Dublin's Castle Street.

Remember the cinema? A place where you'd sit in the dark, warm popcorn to one side, cool drink to the other and you'd enter another world for a few hours? Sounds magical right? Soon, we will be back in those wonderful theatres but for now, we got to have a chat with the person tasked with bringing the films to the big screen. Charlene Lydon is the film programmer for the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin, Pálás Cinema in Galway and streaming service Volta. Charlene spoke to Dermot and Dave about her incredible job, how she chooses the films that we get to see and what the cinema will look like when it reopens. You can catch the chat in full by clicking play below: [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/04/27111202/Charlene_2704.mp3"][/audio]  

Daniel left Monterey without food or money and spent 7 months biking across America searching for the human connection. The title of the film is, "We are all in this together." andis being premiered on Saturday January 18, 7pm at the Lighthouse Cinema in Pacific Grove Ca.

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in. This time, a special treat: David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return. Twenty-five years after Special Agent Dale Cooper disappeared from the small town of Twin Peaks in Washington, a series of strange occurrances suggest that mysterious forces are still playing a dangerous game on the mortal plane. What connects a secret FBI task force, a sinister crime lord, an isolated rural community, a set of Las Vegas gangsters, a strange glass cube in New York, and a strange murder in South Dakota? It's happening again. At time of recording, it was ranked the ∞th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Part V. “This is the man I told you about.” This hour, Charlene Lydon (Element Pictures, the Lighthouse Cinema) joins us to talk about masculinity, the three Coopers... and Wally Brando.

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT. This week, the pair are joined by Sarah Ahern, the programmer of the Fantastic Flix slate at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. This time, Charlie Chaplin's The Kid. When a wandering tramp discovers an abandoned baby in an alleyway, he takes the young child into his care. The pair forge an unlikely familial bond, living at the margins of society, but it all threatens to unravel when the authorities become involved. At time of recording, it was ranked the 99th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database. The Kid is being shown as part of the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. It will be shown in the Lighthouse Cinema, next Saturday 23rd February 2019. Tickets are available online. Any Irish listeners of the podcast interested in watching the film are more than welcome; the film is introduced in broad terms at the start of the podcast.

Viel Spaß bei der fünfzehnten Folge vom "Erstsichtung Podcast". Link zum Film: http://amzn.to/2FeQoie Folgt dem Podcast auf Twitter und Instagram: @erstsichtung

Matt and Thom are joined by Dave Kelly from the Lighthouse Cinema to look back on 2017 and talk absolute bollix with some breaks for savage new music from the likes of Percolator, Davy Kehoe, Crevice and more...

Seamus Hanley is an actor, writer, director and filmmaker whose second feature film, The Middle Finger. Watch the film, right now, on Troma and at the Lighthouse Cinema. Here’s how the show works: 60 Balls. 60 Minutes. 60 Questions. In those 60 minutes, Tom rolls his 13 euro Argos bought Bingo ball machine and asks […] La entrada Seamus Hanley plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran se publicó primero en Headstuff.

DIFF PIX: Hong Kong Kicks kicked off today at The Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin. The season of six films of the best of Hong Kong cinema is guest curated by Roger Garcia, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Film Festival and renowned author, producer and film critic. The line-up includes classic martial arts cinema and well known masters such as Bruce Lee in The Way of the Dragon, Jackie Chan in The Young Master and Jet Li for Once Upon a Time in China II. Paul Farren caught up with Roger Garcia earlier today at the Light House to find out more about the festival while also taking the opportunity to demonstrate his Praying Mantis kung fu skills.

In part one Irish Times film critic Donald Clarke and Lighthouse Cinema manager Helen Hutton join Fionn and Hugh to talk about the latest threat to bricks and mortar cinemas: Netflix's foray into the movie business. Plus, Laurence reports from Stradbally, where he's covering Electric Picnic. In part two, Fintan O'Toole explains his opposition to the shooting of Star Wars on Skellig Micheal. Finally, Fionn and Hugh discuss a difficult dilemma faced by the media in a week of terrible tragedy in Europe.

Welcome to the 50th Banter podcast! Thanks a million to everyone who has tuned in to date and for spreading the word about this series. This one comes from the recent Shore Shots surfing film festival in the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin. We invited surfing scene stalwarts Peter Conroy from the Irish Tow Surf Rescue Club, Ed Temperley from Magic Seaweed magazine, the legendary Brian Britton and Irish Surfing Assocation chairman Henry Moore to join us to talk about how Irish surfing went from its crazy, early days in the 1960s to its current state as a fast growing and developing sport and lifestyle.

Cinema programmer Charlene Lydon is my guest, films discussed - Halloween, Repulsion and The Devil's Rejects.