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The Disaster Artist
It’s difficult to articulate the conflicting emotions one feels while watching The Room, the staggeringly terrible magnum opus by Tommy Wiseau. Ma... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Playwright Jo Clifford programmes film series at Filmhouse
Following esteemed crime author Ian Rankin and genre-defying Mercury Prize-winners Young Fathers, playwright Jo Clifford is set to be Filmhouse’s ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
FrightFest reveal Glasgow Film Festival line-up
The schedule for FrightFest, the most terrifying weekend on the Scottish calendar outside of Old Firm games, has been announced this morning. The horror even... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Art
Rachel Maclean’s new film takes on gender equality
Pop-culture ironist Rachel Maclean is one of the most exciting voices in artist moving image, and her newly announced film Make Me Up – descr... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Tv Radio
Flight of the Conchords confirm TV return in 2018
As we reported earlier in the week, Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement got the internet in a frenzy by suggesting he and Bret McKenzie would be reu... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Oscar nominations: many good decisions and a few bad ones
If you'd've told us a year ago that the story of a mute woman’s love affair with a fish monster would be leading this year’s Oscar race, we&rsquo... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot thriller Unsane looks intense
Steven Soderbergh is Hollywood’s most forward-thinking filmmaker. The Oscar-winning director has been a early adopter of cinema innovations like digita... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Maybe this Han Solo movie won’t be a disaster after all
Solo, the latest spin-off in the Star Wars universe, has a lot to prove. Of the four films produced by Disney as part of their Star Wars expanded universe so... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
First clip of Isle of Dogs is pure Wes Anderson: whimsical and vicious
It’s traditional for dogs to get hurt in Wes Anderson movies, from the family beagle that gets crushed under the wheels of Owen Wilson’s sports c... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson films tend to be set in refined environments: ornate hotels, elite private schools, finely upholstered New York brownstones. The location of his... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
Bill Pullman's Best Films: from Spaceballs to Lost Highway
Weird Pullman: Zero Effect This sorely underrated 1997 comedy sees Pullman at his most manic. He plays Daryl Zero, a socially inept but brilliant private in... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
The Unfilmables: how to score a film that doesn't actually exist
Film fans dream about the wild and wonderful movies that never quite made it to screen. There’s Tarkovsky's failed attempt to make Hamlet, Stanley Kubr... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Theatre
Scottish Youth Theatre set to close
The fallout from Creative Scotland’s recent round of Regular Funding awards continues, as Scottish Youth Theatre has announced it will come to a close ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Film
Everyman Cinemas to open first Scottish venue in Glasgow
Glaswegians love their movies. Glasgow cinemas have some of the UK's healthiest box office takings outside London, so the news that a new cinema will be open... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
Gilded Balloon announce first acts for Fringe 2018
Gilded Balloon have announced their first wave of acts for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, with a pleasing mix of established names and emerging talent i... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Tv Radio
Pilot Light bring cult sketch show Big Train to the big screen
With the likes of Martin Scorsese now making films with Netflix and directors like Nicolas Winding Refn and Yorgos Lanthimos currently making TV shows, the l... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival announce 2018 Artist in Residence
Lucy Clout will be the Berwick Moving Image Artist in Residence for 2018, the festival has revealed. The Leeds-born, London-based moving-image artist, whose ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Film
How The Cabinet of Dr Caligari changed cinema
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari does not want for critical praise. If anyone compiling a study of the silent era doesn’t include a sizable mention of Robert... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Film
Dating app Bumble launch £100k female film fund
It’s no secret that the movie-making business continues to be male-dominated and full of barriers for female filmmakers hoping to get their foot on the... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Film Festival: The Scottish talent
It’s already been announced that the opening film of Edinburgh International Film Festival, Puzzle, will have a Scottish connection in the form of its ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Music
Create a Glasgow music mash-up with Mix the City
Fancy yourself a DJ? Mix the City lets you do just that. The British Council's online music platform centres on different cities around the world, and featur... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Fringe programme 2018 announced
Today, the programme for the biggest art festival in the world has been announced. From 3 to 27 August, a total of 3548 shows will take place in 317 venues t... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Festivals
Joe Dante on Gremlins and modern horror movies
Joe Dante is a lovable mischief-maker; call him the Loki of Hollywood. For four decades he’s been making some of the wiliest films in modern cinema. He... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Film
The Devil Outside
“Life is mysterious, we don’t need to explain it. God doesn’t want us to question.” This is the advice a Bible-thumping mother (Forsy... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Film
Searching
Steven Spielberg’s recent blockbuster Ready Player One made a stab at visualising what our online life will look like in 2045, and came up with an outl... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Film
The best film events in Scotland in July
1. Hitchcock, Hitchcock Everywhere Cinema’s great stylist is back on a big screen near you this month with several of his best films receiving a dig... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Music
The Mercury Prize 2018 shortlist: “blah, boring and obvious”
This morning the nominees for this year’s Mercury Prize has been announced and, as ever for this award celebrating writing achievement across genres, i... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Film
Crystal Moselle on lyrical teen drama Skate Kitchen
You’d be hard-pressed to pigeonhole Crystal Moselle. The filmmaker made waves back in 2015 with her award-winning debut The Wolfpack, a documentary abo... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Festivals
La Maladie de la Mort @ The Lyceum
In a chilly, charmless hotel room, two actors, a woman (Laetitia Dosch) and a man (Nick Fletcher), wait patiently. Around them, half a dozen people dressed i... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Festivals
The Dip @ theSpace, Surgeons' Hall
Milk and Blood Theatre take goofiness to a new level with their riotous late night farce The Dip. It all starts serenely enough – romantic even. The li... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago