Fourth and final Royal Picture Show of 2014

by Rose Rushe

BANG for your buck is a satisfactory state of affairs and the fourth and final Royal Picture Show’s film festival of the year provides this in plenty.
The media launch at Hook & Ladder café, Sarsfield Street raised the profile of a nightly offer: enjoy a Hook & Ladder meal in their Living Café and head on to the movie from Thursday November 27 to Saturday 29 at 9pm for just €10.
Well, it’s a tenner only for the first 33 tickets sold for each evening and you book this directly at the restaurant. Thereafter the price is €20 for meal and film, not bad at all, especially with the opening night’s wine reception included. Tel. 061-413778.

This is followed by the screening of Keith Bogue’s terrific film with Jon Kenny, ‘All Washed Up’, and followed by the eternal bloom of ‘Casablanca’.
Screenings are at 69 O’Connell Street, the purpose of Royal Picture Show being “to keep the name of the Royal Project [cinema/ education centre/ café for 2016 completion] out there, to be part of Limerick City of Culture and to bring cinema back to the city centre,” explains Declan McLoughlin, festival chief.
On Friday 28, the screening is ‘Mama Mia! The Movie’, enriched by a sing-along with Unity Gospel Choir Limerick led by Gretta McCormack-O’Shea.

For Saturday 29, the public votes. Head along to Hook & Ladder to cast by hand or vote online at www.limerickroyal.ie to choose from crowd pleasers: ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’, ‘When Harry Met Sally’, ‘Cabaret’, ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and ‘Blue Jasmine’.
Voting closes today November 20 so act now.

Supporters of Royal Picture Show will observe that the four festivals have covered foreign language movies, international classics, black and white, actor profiles, a schools’ interest section, Irish language and of course, emerging Shorts.