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Film Review – You Say You Want A Revolution? Let’s Gdansk
Polish Roulette - Sztos 2
Comedy
Polish with English sub-titles.
Cert 15. 105 mins
Together with rationing it is an even colder and slushier Advent in Poland 1981...
Film Review : J. Edgar
J. Edgar
Dir. Clint Eastwood
Screenplay Dustin Lance Black
Music Clint Eastwood
Cert. 15
Biographical/Drama/Historical
Two reasons at least why you should see this studied gem: firstly the outstanding performances...
Film review – War Horse: Grief & Canters Of The Best Kind
Director Steven Spielberg.
Producer Steven Spielberg/Kathleen Kennedy
146 mins. War/Drama
In the Spielberg cinematic bestiary of badly behaving animals we have previously encountered boat-eating psychotic sharks, dysfunctional...
Film review: The Artist
The Artist
Romance/Comedy/Drama
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius
Cert PG.
Set in the roaring late 20s Art Deco drenched never-never 'Hollywoodland' of perpetual sparkling sunshine and matching teeth, silent-movie star,...
Traverse Theatre Autumn Festival 18-27 November
Now in its third year, the Traverse Theatre’s Autumn Festival is a celebration of the best work from the worlds of Dance, Visual Theatre,...
Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival 2011 at The Filmhouse 14-16 October
Scotland Loves Animation are delighted to announce the return of the hugely successful Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival 2011. In only its second year...
Cameo to show George Harrison : Living in the Material World
Arts Alliance Media announced today that it will be releasing Martin Scorsese’s GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD presented by Grove Street Pictures...
Hallowe’en at The Usher Hall
Cinema lovers who enjoy a spooky thriller will be in their element at a special Halloween film event being held at Edinburgh’s world famous Usher...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Hotel Methuselah (***)
It’s not so much the what as the how with this intriguing show by UK-based theatre company Imitating the Dog and theatre maker Pete...
Film Review: In A Better World
Winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Susanne Bier’s In A Better World explores themes of revenge and forgiveness whilst...
Leith on the Fringe : Live Film in Leith
A unique programme of filmmaking events combining documentary, fiction, live performance and music is set to descend on Leith this August as part of...
SSA Search For Scottish Films of Last 40 Years
The Scottish Screen Archive (SSA), a part of the National Library of Scotland, is looking for films and videos shot in Scotland over the...
EIFF review Troll Hunter
by Ryan McNeely
What can I say about Troll Hunter? Well, before the flick started, I tweeted this:- “Going to see Troll Hunter. With a...
EIFF – Ewan McGregor to attend Edinburgh premiere
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced that the European Premiere of David Mackenzie’s ‘Perfect Sense’ will move from The Cameo to the larger,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival Programme Launch
Lavish extravagance ditched in favour of ‘an exciting, fun, engaged, serious, brainy, and relevant series of events’ at the 2011 Edinburgh Film Festival.
Following months...
Norwegian Wood
by John Kennedy
Norwegian Wood
2010 Cert 15
Fans of Haruki Murakami’s novel will have to wait a long time for director, Anh Hug Tran’s cinematic adaptation,...
Killing Bono
by John Kennedy
Killing Bono.
Comedy/Rock Music.
Dir. Nick Hamm.
Based on Neil McCormick’s, ‘Killing Bono: I Was Bono’s Doppelganger’, aspiring wannabe Dublin rock-star in waiting, Neil McCormick,...
Muppet Mania hits Edinburgh
In association with the Jim Henson Legacy Foundation, Filmhouse is delighted to present an in-depth retrospective of work by Jim Henson, creator of the...
Review : Company Men
by John Kennedy
Company Men (2010) Drama USA Cert 15.
Given that the essential conceit of this film is for an audience to empathise with a...
Review – Submarine
by John Kennedy
Adapted and directed by Richard Ayoade from Joe Dunthorne’s comic novel, Submarine is a bittersweet coming of age observation of teenage agonies...
Review : True Grit
by John Kennedy
For those of a certain age any film re-make has potent misgivings, no more so when it involves the character of Rooster...
Danny MacAskill Documentary to Premiere in Edinburgh
Edinburgh-based stunt biker, Danny MacAskill, will be sharing the premiere viewing of his new documentary 'MacAskill Conquers' with his fans. After releasing a video...
Films about Edinburgh #2
A film which got rave reviews at The Edinburgh Film Festival in 2003 was 16 Years of Alcohol, billed as a story of hope...
The New Victoria
We spoke recently with the Artistic Director of The New Victoria Limited, Helen Raw. Helen is part of a three woman team trying very...
Mum’s Birthday – 13 December
Scottish independent film Mum’s Birthday, produced by Edinburgh Pilton Video as part of Creative Scotland’s Creative Identities programme, has been accepted into the Hollywood...
Hollywood uses Edinburgh wave energy company’s technology
One of the latest films to open in the UK is Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. It stars Hollywood legend Michael Douglas as Gordon...
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