Film :: Feature 10 Nov 2008
Michael Gillespie: Donkey Punch is a low budget British thriller named after a rather extreme sexual practice. The film is one of a recent slate of dark, provocative but hugely accessible British genre movies, and even sparked a Daily Mail outcry. Its director Olly Black...
Film :: Feature 31 Oct 2008
Jonathan Melville: Edinburgh Filmhouse Skinny favourite The Fall, the visually stunning fantasy epic from director Tarsem Singh, runs until Thursday 6 Nov at the Filmhouse. Set in 1915 Los Angeles, the film starts off low key before exploding with life, defying easy cat...
Film :: Feature 27 Oct 2008
Gail Tolley: The poster for Terence Davies’ documentary - Of Time and the City - is emblazoned with an almost iconic image; a solitary, silhouetted figure walking through an urban wasteland in a post-war Liverpool. It could almost be Davies himself, a self a...
Film :: Feature 10 Oct 2008
Lindsay West: When selecting your slice of Tennessee Williams cinematic majesty this Glasgay!, do Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, indulge in The Glass Menagerie, and drink in Streetcar; but how about talking a chance on Boom!? Going down in history as one of the best failed...
Film :: Music :: Feature :: DVD Review 01 Oct 2008
Ewen Millar: The mandate for Burn to Shine is simple: find a house that is due to be demolished; recruit a number of local bands to play there; film the demolition of the house and release the DVD. Produced by Fugazi's Brendan Canty, each DVD is rigidly formulaic ...
Deviance :: Film :: Feature 26 Sep 2008
Jenni Cruickshank: A lot of debut writer/directors might find it tricky doing just one new job - what made you decide to take on acting and producing too? Marianna Palka: Originally, I wrote it to be in it – I wanted to be both writer and actress. Then my friend ...
Film :: Feature :: Preview 26 Sep 2008
Djuna Bee: In one of her strips, American cartoonist and out lesbian Alison Bechel claimed she had a rule about whether she’d watch a film or not. The film must: 1. Feature at least two women 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something other than men It...
Film :: Feature 25 Sep 2008
Jonathan Melville: The Fall is the latest film from Indian director Tarsem Singh, a fantasy epic over 20 years in the making and filmed across 24 countries. Best known as the director of 2000’s The Cell and REM’s Losing my Religion video, Tarsem tells Jonatha...
Film :: Student Life :: Books :: Feature 10 Sep 2008
Neil D. Walker: Now it’s even easier to apply the cape to your life as Hollywood film studios are currently in feverish cahoots with the major comic houses Marvel and DC to sign up what’s left of their back catalogues of superheroes and legends – rea...
Film :: Feature 29 Aug 2008
Jonathan Melville: Edinburgh Filmhouse Alongside a couple of literary adaptations in the shape of Keira Knightley’s latest costume drama The Duchess (Fri 5 Sep – Thu 2 Oct) and the moving WWII story of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Fri 12 Sep – Thurs...
Film :: Feature 26 Aug 2008
Paul Greenwood: Where did the idea for [REC] come from? The idea was to tell a classic horror story but using live TV language. Using this live report style, we wanted to reach a higher level of realism and credibility in order to increase the implication of...
Film :: Feature 24 Jul 2008
Paul Greenwood: How did you first hear about Philippe and how did you come to be involved in making the film? Everyone in New York knows about it in some shape or form, it’s one of those folk memories that people have. I've lived there for 14 years and it&rsquo...
Film :: Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature :: Preview 23 Jul 2008
Jaco Justice: Move over Cannes, Edinburgh and Co - prepare to have the glam replaced by jam. In August the North East town of Nairn hosts a new film festival, inspired by childhood big-screen epiphanies, over eight and a half magical days celebrating the romanticism...
Film :: Feature 25 Jun 2008
Jonathan Melville : Though there have been some classic movies based on King’s stories over the years, the sheer volume means that many are less than stellar. At the last count he has 108 writing credits on the Internet Movie Database, the number of Childr...
Film :: Heads Up :: Feature :: News 25 Jun 2008
Jonathan Grant, Lucy Keen: Flashy. Fake. Distant. Three things we, as young reporters and fresh eyes on the world premiere of The Edge of Love starring Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys, definitely expected. One of these expectations was soon proved wrong when we m...
Paul Greenwood: Wanted certainly marks a change of pace from Atonement? It’s an incredible change of pace, style and everything for me, but I think that was really why I did it. It’s not the only reason: when I'm looking for something to do, I ask is it d...
Film :: Feature 23 May 2008
Laura Smith: Change is scary. It’s so much easier to hang on to the ‘if it ain’t broke’ idioms, to play it safe. Obviously nobody told the astoundingly fearless Hannah McGill this, as she kicks off the second year of her tenure as Artistic D...
Film :: Feature 20 May 2008
Paul Greenwood: Gordon Kennedy is known for a variety of acting and presenting projects over the years, including co-host of the first National Lottery show alongside Anthea Turner, and Little John in the new BBC series of Robin Hood. But it’s for the early &lsq...
Film :: Feature 01 May 2008
Cara McGuigan: Freshly extricated from its traditional Edinburgh Festival entanglement, the Edinburgh International Film Festival has this year moved from late August to 18-29 June. Details about its contents are coming out tantalisingly slowly, but the rumours are c...
Film :: Feature 01 Apr 2008
Paul Greenwood: The feature debut from Oscar winning director Martin McDonagh, In Bruges is a bitingly funny, no-holds-barred black farce that lands somewhere between Grosse Pointe Blank and Father Ted.Starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen sent to the m...
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