Tag: Films
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, (Ben Barnes) is doomed to making catastrophic, life-changing decisions. The...
Scottish Documentary Institute offers screening opportunities for new Filmmakers
Five new documentary filmmakers, nurtured through Scottish Documentary Institute’s annual Bridging the Gap scheme, have been selected to screen in competition at four of the world’s leading documentary film...
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 Muppets, during the Easter holidays from 18 – 26 April...
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 cohort of successful, but expendable US corporate executives destined for...
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 and ecstasies, love requited and slighted set against a Welsh,...
Save our Cinema group step up campaign
An open air film screening and firework display is the latest event organised in support of the former Odeon cinema in South Clerk Street.
The event will take place in St Patrick Square on Saturday...
Sunday Times 100 Must-See Films
Hot on the heels of a great British success at The Oscars, this weekend The Sunday Times website will publish their definitive 100 Must-See Films. Ten movie critics from The Sunday Times...
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 Cogburn, immortalised by ‘The Duke’, John Wayne, in the legendary...
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 on YouTube in April 2009, filmed by his flatmate Dave...
The Fighter : Review
To make a boxing film without referencing Rocky or Raging Bull, is as difficult as avoiding sports clichés in a review of said film. So when I say that The Fighter stumbles over familiar...
Scottish Documentary Institute – Three film-makers selected for Berlin
Three award-winning female documentary filmmakers nurtured through Scottish Documentary Institute have been selected to attend the 9th Berlinale Talent Campus out of over 4000 applicants. The lab will take place from February 12 –...
The Bell Rock Lighthouse – 200 years old today
On 1 February 1811, The Bell Rock Lighthouse lanterns were lit for the first time. It had taken Robert Stevenson and his men four years to complete what became Scotland's most...
Edinburgh Schools short film competition launched
The Edinburgh International Film Festival and Pilton Video today launched the Edinburgh Schools short film competition.
Open to all pupils in nursery, primary and secondary education within City of Edinburgh establishments, the competition will see...
Glass Bullet filming steam-punk in Edinburgh
We have all heard about Jason Isaacs filming all over Edinburgh recently, but it is easy not to be aware of the small independent film production companies which use the city as a backdrop...
Black Swan : Review
Much has been made of Darren Aronofsky’s debt to Dario Argento, and to the Davids, Lynch and Cronenberg, in the wake of Black Swan, his new film starring Natalie Portman, which opened on Friday....
The 68th Annual Golden Globes
By the time you get up on Monday morning it will all be over for another year - or at least until The Oscars. Everyone will have had their fill of champagne and gone...
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 filmed against the backdrop of a beautiful city. Directed by...
Review of The King’s Speech
Without stutter or hesitation, Tom Hooper, director of The Damned United, explores the private life and difficulties of the reluctant King George VI (Colin Firth) from around the of time his brother’s abdication to...
How to win an iPad – and other competitions
Scottish Book Trust are running a competition for all new media students, creative types, animators, film-makers and anyone handy with a video camera. You can win an Apple iPad for making the most...
7 January 2011 – The King’s Speech is released today
The Reporter is very much looking forward to the release of this film. It seems to have all the ingredients of a good story which thus far has remained under royal wraps. Colin Firth...
Films about Edinburgh
We have just discovered the wonderful Panamint website where you can buy really old films about Edinburgh on DVD, and some of them are even in Blu-Ray format.
There are a few films about Edinburgh...
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 hard to save the old Odeon building on South Clerk...
Christmas present idea number 4 – gift vouchers
You should not be wary of gift vouchers. They are a really good idea of making it easy on you and giving the recipient something they may actually want for a change... The socks...
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 Reel Independent Film Festival running from the 14-16 December and...
Cameo Night Of Horror – The Not Quite Live Blog
10pm: Catch 27 bus to @CameoCinema
10.14pm: Make twitter vow that I’ll only travel after 10pm from now on. It’s much quicker.
10.30pm: Observe crowd whilst waiting for friends to arrive. Some have pillows. Others have...
Filming in Edinburgh
We all know that a lot of films use Edinburgh as their backdrop. At the moment Jason Isaacs, the actor better known as Lucius Malfoy, is to be seen around town filming Case Histories....
The Filmhouse brings you films premiered at EIFF 2010
This week Filmhouse is screening two films that premiered earlier this year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Fri 29 Oct to Sun 31 Oct
Werner Herzog directs. David...
Star of ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ to visit Edinburgh Pub
There is a spate of needlessly horrible films coming out at the moment (Saw 3D, anyone?) and, not to be outdone, Jekyll and Hyde’s regular B-Team Movie Night have something of a pre-Hallowe’en treat...
Cameo is showing The Social Network
The film about Facebook is actually less about Facebook, and more about its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and his shortcomings as a friend. You cannot live in the 21st century and not know something about...
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