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Exclusive: Watch the trailer for A Cat Called Dom
If you like your documentaries to be both extremely meta and deeply moving, you’ll love A Cat Called Dom, the debut feature film from Will Anderson and... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
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Farming
In Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s debut feature, farming refers not to agriculture but to the informal fostering of thousands of Nigerian children by white... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Hurt by Paradise
The most intense friendships can feel like a romance: the euphoric highs, the crushing lows, the laughs, the tears. There are also the boring bits, the munda... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Venezia
Rodrigo Guerro’s Venezia is a sob-stifling study of grief and a twisted love story of sorrow and isolation, played out against the backdrop of a city f... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Scheme Birds
As images of the grey and desolate housing schemes of Motherwell slip across the screen, 18-year-old Gemma wistfully remarks in her metallic, West Coast twan... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Cronofobia
A suspicious looking middle-aged man sits alone in his van and quietly observes a lonely woman. A few days later, she invites him into her house and the two ... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Not the End (Sin fin)
A wonderfully emotional film, low-key Spanish sci-fi Not the End tells the story of a couple – Javier the regretful time traveller (played by Javi... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Manta Ray (Kraben Rahu)
A forest at night. The camera moves through trees and foliage, picking details from the gloom. Suddenly a lone figure enters the frame, stalking and clutchin... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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The Vast of Night
Usually a film will attempt to disguise its influences, but with its Twilight Zone opening and framing scenes with a crackly 1950s television set, sci-fi mys... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Underdown
“In life there is honey and there [are] onions; it’s not all honey”, we are wisely told in Sarah Kaskas’ feature documentary debut Un... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Balance, Not Symmetry
Balance, Not Symmetry is unbearable. Directed and co-written by Jamie Adams, this aimless and inconclusive drama about a young woman processing a deep loss r... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Get Duked!
Cinema does not want for films featuring youth in revolt, but rarely has the clash between the young and old been so energetically staged as in Ninian Doff&r... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 11-18 Nov: The Great Western & more
The Great Western, Glasgow’s daylong festival dedicated to some of the most exciting names in contemporary music, returns this weekend with one of thei... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Memory: The Origins of Alien
Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s pop culture phenomenon, Memory: The Origins of Alien looks at the genesis of the iconic mons... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Scottish Film Events: August 2021
Cinema is back, baby! Just don’t stand so close and please wear a mask! As Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-25 Aug) becomes the first large i... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
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Scottish Film Events: September 2022
Scottish cinemas get a bit racy this month as a wonderful selection of pre-Code films head to Filmhouse and GFT. For those uninitiated in this debauched peri... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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AL Kennedy and Irvine Welsh to be Filmhouse House Guests
We love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative. It’s always fascinating to hear what movies have resonated with people, and the Edinburgh cinema&rsqu... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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A Home from Home: Filmhouse at 40
Great cinemas are more than just buildings in which we watch movies. They’re meeting places, where we go on dates or to catch up with friends; they&rsq... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Bait
In more ways than one, the traditional and the contemporary rub up against one another in Mark Jenkin’s strange and hypnotic Bait. The setting is a fis... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Were the 1980s a golden age for female filmmaking?
If you haven’t noticed, we’re all obsessed with the 1980s. In all likelihood, the last piece of contemporary pop culture you consumed referenced ... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Flux Gourmet
Over the course of his last four features – Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy, In Fabric and now 2022’s Flux Gourmet –... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2024: Industry Focus and After Dark events
You’ve had a couple of weeks to pore over the Glasgow Film Festival cinema lineup, but today they announce more treats: the Industry Focus and the tant... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
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How Day of The Dead shaped the modern zombie movie
The third entry in George Romero's original Dead Trilogy, 1985's Day of the Dead, is just as rich in satire and subtext as its much-celebrated predecessors, ... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Robert the Bruce
The opening scene of Robert the Bruce suggests we’re going to be in for a cheese-fest. It’s 1306, and two noblemen with legitimate claims to the ... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival: Five Asian films to discover
The Edinburgh International Film Festival presents a good selection of Asian titles scattered across its vast programme. We browsed through the festival cata... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Why are there so many zombie comedies?
Horror and humour have long been eager movie bedfellows. Scares and laughs co-exist in films as different as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), An... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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The Best Film Events in Scotland in March
1. Glasgow Short Film Festival Our favourite film festival is back with a programme that’s equal parts playful and probing. The 12th edition of GSFF... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
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The great Leonard Cohen moments in film
With Nick Broomfield’s documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, an in-depth look at the relationship between Leonard Cohen and muse Marianne ... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Matt Palmer on bruising Scottish thriller Calibre
Nothing good ever came from taking a walk in the woods – not in the history of the movies at least. From the campers of Friday the 13th to the film stu... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 28 Jun-5 Jul: Music Festivals
Kelburn Garden Party kicks off tomorrow, with headline performances from Goldie, Krafty Kuts and Ibibio Sound Machine (pictured) taking place across the week... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago