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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Brakes ***
Mercedes Grower's Brakes is a montage of the ends and beginnings of a set of diverse relationships. She herself plays Layla who becomes pregnant by Noel Fielding's...
The Boy with Tape on his Face at Gilded Balloon Comedy in July
Silence will be golden for comedy audiences in Edinburgh at the beginning of July. The Boy With Tape on His Face, aka Sam Wills,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The White King ***
Alex Helfrecht & Jorg Tittel's opening scene presents an idyllic view of what could be any family relaxing by any beautiful river but we soon...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Under the Sun (V luchakh solna)***
Disturbing documentary of life in North Korea as illustrated by following an 'ordinary' family in Pyongyang for one year.
The North Korean authorities carefully scripted...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Saint Amour ***
Deliciously naughty, mad-cap wine tour and road trip taken by father (Gerard Depardieu) and son (Benoit Poelvoorde) farmers in order to try and bond...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Best of the Fest – Sunday, 26th June
Best of the Fest is your last chance to see the cream of the crop from this year's Festival. We're putting on a series of...
What’s On In Edinburgh This Weekend
If you've always wanted to count flowers, handle beasties, find spiders or charm worms, you're in luck this weekend - wildlife opportunities abound! And...
LeithLate 16 opens tonight!
The LeithLate16 Opening Night is tonight!
The Festival begins with an annual ArtCrawl 6pm-10pm. They have a packed line-up with over 100 artists and musicians participating across 25 venues 23-26th June.
To find out more about...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 My Feral Heart ***
A bittersweet drama about Luke, a young man with Down’s Syndrome (the excellent Steven Brandon) who performs all of the household tasks and his...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Endless Night (Nadie quiere la Noche) *****
A lush, extravagant, brilliant triumph of a drama, Spanish director Isabel Coixet's Endless Night transfixes and mesmerises.
Based on a true story, Josephine Peary...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The Commune (Kollektivet) ***
In Danish with English subtitles
Set in the age of Sixties free love, Erik (Ulrich Thomsen) has inherited a large Copenhagen house from his deceased...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Pale Star **
Scottish director Graeme Maley's use of a bleak, stark, cold Icelandic setting sets the tone for this harsh, violent film. After a graphic start when poteen-distiller Dis...
Post-shopping fizz at Hard Rock
Long day shopping?
Drop those heavy bags and quench your thirst with some well-earned bubbles at Hard Rock Cafe Edinburgh.
From now until 10 July 2016, Hard Rock...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Aloys **
Tobias Nolle's film Aloys sees the eponymous character (Georg Friedrich) and his father running a seedy detective agency together until his father dies. Now all...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Adult Life Skills *****
As hilariously quirky as it is tragically poignant, this charming film from first-time director Rachel Tunnard is original and memorable.
Anna (Jodie Whittaker) is twenty-nine...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Ithaca ***
Based on William Saroyen's book 'The Human Comedy', the film is set in wartime Ithaca, New York. The only thing which would have made...
Five things you need to know today
MGA Academy of Performing Arts celebrate 10th anniversary
Student accommodation now open for bookings
Summer holiday safety warning from Barratt Homes
Keep Scotland Beautiful Green...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 River ****
Jamie M Dagg's directorial debut is a lightning-paced, action-packed thriller, tense as a taut wire and set mostly in Laos.
Young doctor John Lake (Rossif...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Families (Belles Familles) ***
Jean-Paul Rappeneau has directed a witty, urbane comedy with just slight Whitehall Farce overtones.
Mathieu Amalric plays a French businessman based in Shanghai, dropping in...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Diving into the Unknown (Takaisin pintaan) *****
Astonishing, mind-blowing account of a team of Finnish divers recovering the bodies of their dead colleagues from an underwater cave in northern Norway.
In...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The Founders ***
Interesting documentary about the founding of the Ladies' Professional Golf Association in the States.
Interviews with some of the original founders and current press...
Let there be light for the opening night of Edinburgh International Festival
You are going to love this.
Last year the Edinburgh International Festival opened with a spectacular light show focused on The Usher Hall, which in...
Countdown to the summer holidays – Edinburgh Leisure has the answer
If you are looking for some way to entertain your children over the summer then have a look at the summer programme that Edinburgh...
Armed Forces Day 2016 marked with a flag
The official Armed Forces Day flag raising ceremony took place earlier today at the City Chambers.
The Rt Hon Lord Provost Donald Wilson was a Piper (John...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Sixty-Six ***
UK Premiere
Well, I'm really not quite sure how to describe Lewis Klahr's Sixty Six - it's a stream of art consciousness, over twelve episodes,...
New headteacher appointed at St George’s
Alexandra Hems has been appointed new head at St George's, the all girls school on Garscube Terrace.
Ms Hems is currently Deputy Head of Wycombe...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week – 72 Things to do!
There's a big decision looming this Thursday....... just where will you go first when Leith Late opens? Edinburgh Printmakers? Rhubaba? Out of the Blue?...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child represents the Portobello/Craigmillar ward on the City of Edinburgh Council.
Here she gives us a round up from her inbox!
Despite what we...
What’s on in Edinburgh this weekend
There's plenty to keep you busy this weekend - art, films, theatre and music in abundance of course (this is Edinburgh...) - plus open...
Viking Sea arrives in Edinburgh for her first visit
The Viking Sea came to Edinburgh for the first time today.
Following her recent christening in Greenwich last month, Viking's second Ocean ship has set sail from Bergen and...
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