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Review: Planetarium Lates: Dark Side of the Moon ★★★★★
On the day that Virgin Galactic successfully flew tourists to space for first time, I also took to the skies but for a fraction...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – REVIEW – Viv Groskop: Vivalicious ***
In Vivalicious writer, broadcaster and comedian Viv Groskop’s attempts to become her best self through the gospel of Oprah Winfrey.
Groskop grew up in a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – One Woman Sex and the City ****
In the year Sex and the City celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first airing, writer and performer Kerry Ipema takes us on a hilarious...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 Review – About Lady White Fox with Nine Tales ***
YVUA Arts present their award-winning About Lady White Fox with the Nine Tales, a retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth based on the mysterious and exotic...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review – Ideal Home ***
Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, long-term lovers who live a carefree life in Sante Fe, where Erasmus is a...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review: Hearts Beat Loud ****
In the hip Brooklyn neighbourhood of Red Hook, widowed dad and record store owner Frank (Nick Offerman) is preparing to send his daughter Sam...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review: Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis *****
Two years ago, Travis frontman Fran Healy had an idea to direct a music documentary with a difference. “I wanted to create a picture...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 – Closing Gala – Swimming With Men ****
A bittersweet British comedy packed with delightful performances, Swimming with Men – hailed ‘The Full Monty in speedos’ – is a winning comedy drama,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 – Review: In Darkness ***
Natalie Dormer stars as Sofia in a psychological revenge thriller which sadly does not live up to its initial promise. Blind pianist Sofia overhears...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Review: RBG ****
In the documentary RBG, directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen seek to discover how softly spoken 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review : Whitney ****
In the six years since Whitney Houston’s death so much has been written about her life you’d be forgiven for thinking you already know...
Theatre REVIEW — Once Upon a Time in Wigan ***
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company's Once Upon a Time in Wigan has a lot going for it. An enthusiastic young cast, an audience of...
Theatre REVIEW – Crude *****
There's a moment during Grid Iron's production of Crude when the multi-award-winning Edinburgh-based theatre company takes full advantage of the cavernous, industrial performance space...
Theatre REVIEW – The Broons: Maggie’s Wedding *****
As we wait for Scotland's favourite family to take the stage, it seems an incongruous setting. Perth's sleek twenty-first century concert hall is filled by...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: People of the Eye *****
As the Fringe draws gradually to its close, it seems apt to reflect on the highs and lows of this unique month. Those of us...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: BLUSH****
At Underbelly's Cowgate venue, BLUSH is another play on this year's Fringe that incorporates glitchy sound design, a stripped-down setting, actors taking on multiple...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : Mr Incredible*****
Who wouldn't want to spend time with someone awarded the sobriquet "Mr Incredible" by his creator? Admittedly, when the audience at Underbelly Cowgate first...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: A Tale of Two Cities – Blood for Blood...
Red Shift Productions (in association with Chung Ying Theatre Company and Seabright Productions) brings award-winning writer-director Jonathan Holloway's adaptation of Dickens' classic to an...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: No Horizon *****
Before the first reviews are in and the word-of-mouth has started, the buzz for Andy Platt and Max Reid's musical No Horizon has attracted...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Poena 5X1 ****
As Poena 5X1 (or How I Came to Agree With Right-Wing Thinking) begins, the scientist Bryony Adams launches into a horrifying story about the...
REVIEW – PINS at Sneaky Pete’s
Sneaky Pete's is a confined venue – there's no disputing that. But when you have to try to take off your coat, you know that...
REVIEW – The Coronas at Liquid Room
The Coronas' UK tour is a mere footnote compared to the massive shows they have previous played in their native Ireland. The band have...
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...
The Nutcracker, Festival Theatre
The Nutcracker is the lightest, most accessible of all Tchaikovsky’s ballets. It’s a Christmas delight, telling the story of a young girl named Clara...
Review – Aladdin at The King’s Theatre
Year after year, a trio of talented actors holds the King’s Theatre pantomime together. Allan Stewart as Widow Twankey, Andy Gray as Wishy Washy...
Hayao Miyazaki: The Master of Animation
There are very few directors who have a firm grasp on both reality and fantasy quite like Hayao Miyazaki does. Creating kinetic castles, bear...
Edinburgh International Festival 2014 – REVIEW – Delusion of the Fury *****
Quadrangularis Reversum, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Belly Drums, Spoils of War: even just the names of the outlandish instruments invented and constructed by American maverick composer...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – Dan Clark: Me, My Selfie and I...
Dan Clark: Me, My Selfie and I, Pleasance Dome 8:20pm, until 24 August, £12.50 (£11.50 concessions)
Best known as the creator and star of the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit ****.5
Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit, Assembly George Square, until 24 August, See venue for ticket availability and pricing
To be frank, Skinner is a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – Jack Dee’s Help Desk ***.5
Jack Dee's Help Desk, Assembly George Square 6:30pm, until 24 August, See venue for ticket availability and pricing
Known for his generally glum persona, Jack Dee's...
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