ENTERTAINMENT: Have the Time of your Life at Eclipse Cinemas Lifford: For One Night Only – Dirty Dancing – Monday 26th Sept – All Tickets €5.00
Dirty Dancing (1987) 12A
It’s the summer of 1963, and 17 year old Frances “Baby” Houseman (JENNIFER GREY) is about to learn some major lessons in life as well as a thing or two about dancing. On holiday in America’s Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents, “Baby” shows little interest in the resort activities, and instead discovers her own entertainment when she stumbles upon the staff’s quarters where an all-night dance party is in full swing.
Mesmerised by the raunchy dance moves and the pounding rhythms, “Baby” can’t wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of sexy, heart-throb Johnny Castle (PATRICK SWAYZE) the resort dance instructor. “Baby’s” life is about to change forever as she is thrown in at the deep end as Johnny’s leading lady both on-stage and off with breath-taking consequences.
Magnificent Seven: 12A
Training Day and The Equalizer director Antoine Fuqua re-imagines the classic 1960 Western with a whole host of Hollywood stars all saddling up to tackle injustice.
The American frontier town of Rose Krick is under siege from ruthless villain Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Saarsgard), and in their desperation the residents turn to a misfit group of gun-slingers to save the day. These include bounty hunter Sam Chisholm (Denzel Washington), explosives expert Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), sharpshooter Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke) and tracker Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio).
Today’s crop of A-listers don the spurs and step into the iconic boot prints left by movie legends Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Robert Vaughn in this gritty, action-packed reworking of a landmark movie classic. Reuniting Training Day stars Washington and Hawke with Guardians of the Galaxy’s Pratt and Daredevil’s D’Onofrio, this promises to unleash seven barrels of mayhem.
The Girl With All The Gifts: 15A
One girl holds the key to survival in this strikingly original post-apocalyptic zombie horror.
In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating ‘hungries’. Mankind’s only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The kids go to school at an army base in rural England, where they’re subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Cauldwell (Glenn Close). Teacher Helen (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie (Sennia Nanua). When the base is invaded, the trio escape with guard Sergeant Parks (Paddy Considine) and embark on a perilous journey of survival, during which Melanie must come to terms with who she is.
Filmed on location in the West Midlands, M.R. Carey’s adaptation of his much-acclaimed, bestselling novel puts a fresh, provocative spin on the zombie movie.
