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GFF 2014: Starred Up (David Mackenzie, 2013)
I woke up this morning still to find myself in the confined space of Starred Up. Isolating, dangerous and cut-throat, it’s a realistic outing...
GFF 2014: Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
Night Moves is an example of a film that works so tremendously well using very little. Set in an isolated American town, it uses...
GFF 2014: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Felix Herngren,...
For the most part, we’ve left mainstream comedy films to the Yanks. Veering towards grandiose affairs of humourless slapstick, or a smartly written, well...
GFF 2014 – Nymphomaniac: Volumes I & II (Lars von Trier, 2014)
Lars von Trier is an undeniable master of character study. In Nymphomaniac, when all the provocative material is stripped away, both promotionally and cinematically,...
GFF 2014: Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
As the sun sets over the water in Stranger by the Lake, you are reminded how cinema can greatly embody multiple genres. Presenting itself...
GFF 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
From the off, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel resembles a stunningly crafted watercolour postcard, plucked lovingly from the depths of your grandmother's relic...
GFF 2014: The Double (Richard Ayoade, 2014)
If there’s a topic that Richard Ayoade tackles with impeccable skill, it’s infatuation. In his break out hit, the 2010 coming-of-age drama ‘Submarine’, he...
Drive in movie in Edinburgh
We thoroughly enjoyed the showing of Top Gun on Friday night. Yes it was Valentine's night so the film was suitably romantic, but also...
REVIEW: Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
Spike Jonze has a really wonderful talent as a filmmaker. He has the ability to paste a whimsical, light overcoat on his films and...
Edinburgh screenwriter reaches final of prestige film competition
Two short films by Edinburgh screenwriter Ronnie Mackintosh and London based director Brady Hood have been selected as finalists in a prestige international competition...
College’s schools film story competition is a winner!
Edinburgh College rolls out the red carpet for schoolchildren
Edinburgh College’s Centre for Creative Industries gave local schoolchildren the chance to write their own movie...
Film – McLaren 2014 will be part of Homecoming Scotland
Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery and Stills will both stage exhibitions as part of the centenary celebrations to mark the centenary of world-renowned Scottish filmmaker,...
Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival for your Valentine date
EMFF SET TO WOO AUDIENCES WITH NEW VALENTINE’S WEEKEND EVENT
Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival fans fall for the man known as ‘The Swiss Machine’
The Edinburgh...
Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2014, Joel and Ethan Coen)
Musicals have, of late, come thick and fast into mainstream cinema. Camp, dazzling and epic, they’re made to leave the viewer either drained of...
Oscars 2014 – Edinburgh Director nominated for award
A young Edinburgh director has been short listed for an Academy Award.
Edinburgh director Sara Ishaq has been selected as one of 5 finalists for...
BAFTA 2014: The Round Up
Film lovers this morning woke up early on Wednesday morning to catch the announcement of the BAFTA’s 2014 Film Awards, sponsored by EE.
As 2013...
Film Review: 12 Years a Slave *****
There are very few films where the audience leave the cinema without saying a word, (Schindler's List was one of them) such is the...
The most important films of 2013
It was a year of cinematic diversity - for every scantily clad teenage gangster, we had an elderly shunned Irish nun, searching for her...
REVIEW – Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013, Adbellatif Kechiche)
It has been shrouded in both critical acclaim and backlash since it premiered at Cannes earlier this year, but there’s one thing no one...
For Those in Peril scoops Scottish BAFTA
Those in Peril wins big at the British Academy’s Scotland awards 2013
The debut feature from young Scottish filmmaker Paul Wright picks up the Best...
Film REVIEW – Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton, 2013)
Independent cinema is comfortably placed in two categories: films that are quite something, and films that try hard to be something that they’re not....
REVIEW – For Those in Peril (2013, Paul Wright)
For years, it seems like Scottish cinema had sort of bubbled under the filmic radar as Hollywood took centre stage. Then, there was 2013....
Review: Saving Mr Banks ****
Saving Mr Banks is a very enjoyable family film which relates the often adversarial story about Walt Disney and his relationship with PL Travers...
Scottish Films Among The Nominees For Upcoming Awards
Filth and Under the Skin lead the North-of-the-Border contingent for the Moët British Independent Film Awards, with five and four nominations respectively.
The nominations for the...
Film and food to celebrate Louis de Funès at the French Institute
On the 30th anniversary of his death the Institut français put on a special evening of film and food to celebrate the hero of French...
AUDIO – The Morning After… Cameo All Night Horror Madness 7 Review
5 horror films. Back-to-back. 11pm to 8am. Vintage trailers. Free raffle.
It can only be the All Night Horror Madness 7 at the Cameo cinema,...
Film Review – ‘Rush’ is More Than Just Racing
It was never going to be an easy film for director Ron Howard to make, although if this film was going to be made,...
Sunshine on Leith is box office hit throughout UK
Sunshine on Leith was the third most popular film in the UK over the weekend according to figures from the BFI, slightly behind Filth...
Win a ticket to the All Night Horror Madness 7 at the Cameo
It's back! Here is your chance to win a ticket to the incredible All Night Horror Madness 7 at Edinburgh's Cameo Cinema on Saturday...
Filth’s Brian McCardie makes Begbie look like a Disney Character
‘Filth,’ the eagerly anticipated film based on the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name is released in Scotland today, and actor Brian McCardie...
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