A month of movies at Mermaid Arts Centre
A NUMBER OF films will be screened at Mermaid Arts Centre in the coming weeks, including ‘I Am Not a Witch’, and ‘Captain Underpants’.
I Am Not A Witch will be on Monday, February 12, at 8 p.m. After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old orphan Shula is exiled to a witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into a white goat.
On Sunday, February 18, at 2 p.m., it’s ‘Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie’. George Beard and Harold Hutchins are best friends who spend their days creating comic books and dreaming up pranks. One day they accidentally hypnotize their school principal into believing that he is Captain Underpants, a dim-witted superhero whose costume consists of underwear and a cape.
Agatha Christie’s ‘Evil Under the Sun’ will be screened on Sunday, February 18, at 5 p.m. While investigating a case involving a fake diamond for an insurance company, detective Hercule Poirot must travel to a tropical island hotel to seek out Arlena Marshall, for whom the gem was bought. But on his arrival Poirot finds that everyone else there has their own feud with Arlena, and it’s only a matter of time before she turns up dead. The Van Gogh biopic ‘Loving Vincent’ will be on at Mermaid on Monday, February 19, at 8 p.m. and Tuesday, February 20, at 2.30 p.m. The cast includes Saoirse Ronan and Chris O’Dowd.
For tickets or more information go to mermaidartscentre.ie.