Tag: Film
What’s On At The Cinema This Week?
Picturehouses Toddler Time: exclusive short screenings for pre-school children and their parents and carers. Today: Rastamouse – Mice Camera Action (U): There’s plenty of musical ambition on display in these fabulacious Rastamouse episodes! Author Michael De Souza says of his creation,...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week – cinema
Grassmarket Community Cinema Special Event: Girl Rising (PG). A girl’s self worth, confidence and power should radiate from within; when her potential is fully realized, the world is transformed. Empowering young girls to become powerful agents...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week – our choice of films
Picturehouses Toddler Time: exclusive short screenings for pre-school children and their parents and carers. Today: Q Pootle 5 Programme 10 (U): join the stars of the hit CBeebies show as Q Pootle 5, Oopsy, Eddi, Stella, Ray, Groobie,...
Film – Jungle Book reimagined: spectacular CGI crafts a whole new reality
Iain Macdonald, Edinburgh Napier University
“Will it be a happy or a sad film?” asks my 11-year-old son in anticipation of Disney’s new reboot of The Jungle Book. The answer depends on your attachment...
EIFF – major 2016 retrospectives
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) today announced that this year’s two retrospectives will be Look Again: A Celebration of Cinéma Du Look, a cinematic exploration of the unforgettable ‘Cinéma du Look’ wave of 1980 and...
IONA : “Utterly hypnotic, a beguiling watch” – opening on Good Friday
We really like the official trailer for Iona as it features an earlier review of the film by The Edinburgh Reporter!
But then our film reviewer, Douglas Greenwood, really liked the film itself, describing it as: "Utterly...
Film review – Carol : stunning 1950s tale of two women in love
An insistent clamour of bells and horns recurs throughout Carol, evoking the stifling, heavy atmosphere of conformity that overlay early 1950s America. An older woman, the wealthy, strikingly beautiful Carol (Cate Blanchett), starts an...
What’s On In Edinburgh – Grassmarket free Cinema
The excellent Grassmarket Community Project screens a film almost every week - and admission is totally free, although they would of course appreciate any donations towards their work with some of Edinburgh's most vulnerable...
Edinburgh is the star in these films
With the release of the new James Bond film this week we are reminded that Scotland plays a main role in many films including the previous Bond blockbuster, Skyfall.
From Edinburgh’s most famous Skye Terrier,...
Film review – Macbeth ****
Macbeth – The Scottish Film ****
I love Shakespeare.
I love the complexity and the political machinations of the characters.
The new Macbeth movie directed by Justin Kurzel is a great advertisement for Scotland. The landscape is...
ODEON Fort Kinnaird to premiere The Martian on Thursday night
ODEON Fort Kinnaird is offering guests a unique opportunity to watch the new hotly anticipated Ridley Scott sci-fi space blockbuster The Martian, starring Matt Damon, one week before its official release at 5.45pm on 24th September.
In a ground-breaking...
Record sums spent on making films in Scotland
Film and TV producers spent a record £45.2 million shooting on location in Scotland in 2014, Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop revealed today.
The record high total - an increase of almost £12 million compared with...
Edinburgh Subtitles and Captions Club for filmgoers with hearing loss
Imagine watching a film where the sound track is impossible to make out properly. You can’t follow the plot or appreciate the film, however hard you try. If all sound tracks are like that,...
Inside Out’s Ronnie del Carmen: the Pixar storyteller that will make grown men cry
The first time Pixar's Ronnie del Carmen made himself known to us was in the waiting lounge of Edinburgh's APEX Hotel in search of a restroom. "Hey guys," he grins, "I won't be a...
Edinburgh International Film Festival shows off latest Disney Pixar blockbuster
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has a proud tradition of showcasing films from around the world, from short films to future blockbuster; literally every taste is catered for. It has also become a favourite forum...
EIFF 2015: Iona (Scott Graham, 2015)
When Iona and her son make the journey through the night from her Glasgow family home to the sand swept sights of the Scottish isles, barely a word is said. There's a power in...
EIFF 2015 – Opens with Robert Carlyle’s The Legend of Barney Thomson
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival will begin in a few weeks with the directorial debut from Robert Carlyle, The Legend of Barney Thomson which stars its director along with Emma Thompson and Ray...
What you need to know about the ODEON Fort Kinnaird
The Edinburgh Reporter was delighted to go along recently to have a look at the new cinema at Fort Kinnaird (and to enjoy the ice cream too!).
Mark Hurst, ODEON Cinema Technology Manager has worked in cinema...
Get ready for Film in the city this summer
Films are big in Edinburgh this June with the Edinburgh International Film Festival taking place between 17 & 28 June and now some free outdoor cinema in the Grassmarket and St Andrew Square.
There has...
We Are Many in Edinburgh this Thursday
We Are Many, a film documenting the largest ever protest on the UK mainland, will be debuting at cinemas across the country this Thursday 21st May.
In Edinburgh, it will be showing, with live Q&A,...
Edinburgh filmmakers premiere new film at Cannes Film Festival
Edinburgh filmmakers who recently won an Award of Excellence statuette are to have their short film, Avaritia premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
Avaritia, directed by Walid Salhab and filmed on the streets of...
Review: The Falling (Carol Morley, 2015)
Maisie Williams has taken the valiant nature from her role as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones and applied it to her part in Carol Morley’s The Falling. It is a film that embraces...
Cannes 2015: Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Tête haute to open festival’s 68th edition
For the first time in its 68 year history, the Festival de Cannes has selected a film directed by a female as their prestigious opening film. Emmanuelle Bercot’s latest effort, La Tête haute, will...
Film Review: While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach, 2015)
I feel terrible for admitting it, but my expectations for Noah Baumbach's follow up to the near perfect Frances Ha were worryingly low. I have a slight issue with Ben Stiller; an actor who...
Cannes 2015: The Edinburgh Reporter is off to Cannes!
I have a theory that, regardless of everybody's personal tastes and fortes, we have a shared passion for really good films. The diversity lies in our own tastes; something that I'm sure people debate...
In Conversation with TER: Antoine Olivier Pilon, the star of ‘Mommy’
When Xavier Dolan made his return last summer with the enchanting, permissive Mommy – the film world focused its eyes on a trio of Canada’s finest actors. Two, the brilliant Anne Dorval and Suzanne...
COMPETITION – Win tickets to the new ODEON Fort Kinnaird here
ODEON - Europe's largest cinema group - will next week be bringing film back to Edinburgh's Fort Kinnaird retail park after a 10-year absence, by opening an all-new cinema at the site on Friday...
Glasgow Film Fest – Blind (Eskil Vogt, 2014)
Blind, the impressive debut feature from Norway’s Eskil Vogt feels both confident and accomplished from the start, guiding you through a small group of characters that become so tightly intertwined, it becomes difficult to...
TER in Conversation with Chiara D’Anna – the star of the Duke of Burgundy
Last week, box office records were shattered with the release of the turgid Fifty Shades of Grey – a nonsensical cinematic depiction of dominance within sexual relationships. Just a week later, there is a...
Glasgow Film Fest 2015 – Memphis (Tim Sutton, 2013)
In amongst the airy, ethereal atmosphere of Tim Sutton’s Memphis, there lies promise. An idea that could make this film work in a sort of bizarre amalgamation of Beasts of the Southern Wild and...
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