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Film
A Quiet Place
Horror films love a good gimmick. After all, there are only so many ways you can show people being stalked and slashed before you need to throw in a surprisi... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Festivals
Alchemy Film Festival: Mike Hoolboom on Aftermath
Three great but long-gone artists (Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock and Frida Khalo) are exhumed in Mike Hoolboom’s Aftermath, alongside one who’s st... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
The best film events in Scotland in May 2018
1) Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival Aftermath Hawick is the film lover's place to be at the start of this month as Alchemy Film & Moving Image ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Music
Scottish Album of the Year Award: Entries open for 2018
The Scottish Album of the Year Award, Scotland’s most popular and prestigious music prize, returns for its seventh year in 2018 and is now looking for ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival reveals 2018 programme
This year’s Edinburgh International Books Festival (EIBF) launched today under the banner of freedom, and will be calling upon this year’s author... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
Watch the first trailer for Scottish thriller Calibre
Ever wished someone would set an existential thriller in a similar vein of John Boorman’s Deliverance or Walter Hill’s Southern Comfort in t... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
Patty Jenkins shares first images from Wonder Woman sequel
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has given the internet a wee surprise this afternoon by revealing the first images from that superhero film's sequel on T... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
Welcome to Scottish zombie musical Anna and the Apocalypse
How’s this for an eye-catching logline? “A zombie apocalypse musical set in a Scottish high school… oh, and it’s also a Christmas mo... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Festivals
Ten films to see at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Today, in a small spa town in the Czech Republic, Eastern Europe’s premiere celebration of cinema is about to get underway. The 53rd edition of the Kar... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
Check out Saoirse Ronan’s accent in Mary Queen of Scots
There are dodgy wigs and even dodgier accents aplenty in the first trailer for Mary Queen of Scots, with Saoirse Ronan playing the ambitious Mary Stuart who ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Art
Creative Scotland head Janet Archer quits
Creative Scotland has not had a great year so far. Back in January, the organisation announced who would receive the vital three year funding from their... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Festivals
Scottish zombie musical to open Glasgow Youth Film Festival
Ten years ago Glasgow Film proposed a novel concept: a youth-oriented film festival where young people were the programmers as well as the intended audience.... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
The best film events in Scotland in August
1) Agnès Varda season The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda is often dubbed as one of the world’s greatest female filmmakers. Let&rsq... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
Nina’s Got News @ Pleasance Dome
One-time Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Frank Skinner returns to the Fringe with his debut theatre piece, although there’s little chance of Nina’s... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
Waiting for Godot @ Royal Lyceum Theatre
Waiting for Godot is so iconic, and with a plot so fat-free, that practically everyone knows the gist: two tramps wait by a tree for the enigmatic title char... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
The Abode @ Underbelly Cowgate
The Abode is a dazzling epic that’s both overflowing and threadbare. With only a few fairy lights, some hand torches and a trio of banana yellow storag... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running @ ZOO Charteris
Despite what its title implies, running enthusiasts might not warm to What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Fredrik Høyer is hardly the pastime... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
Glasgow Youth Film Festival announces 2018 programme
Celebrating both its tenth anniversary edition and coinciding with Scotland’s Year of Young People, the brimming programme for the Glasgow Youth Film F... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
Everything Not Saved @ Summerhall
Photographs lie. As do history books. And don’t get us started on our minds. We are the unreliable witnesses to our own lives, forever misremembering k... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Filmhouse and GFT on indie cinema in 2018
The reports of cinema’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Every few years, it seems an industry insider will write a hysterical thinkpiece exclaimin... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
A guide to Scottish DIY film nights
Every night, in every town across the UK of any significant size, you’ll find DIY gigs taking place in dingy pub basements and spartan back rooms, play... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Tv Radio
Disenchantment
Matt Groening has lovingly satirised the modern blue collar family in The Simpsons (the longest running US TV show of all time) and imagined the workplace re... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Nic Cage unleashed as Glasgow’s Cage-a-Rama returns
Cage-a-rama is back, and like any sequel worth its salt, it has a ridiculous subtitle – Cage-a-rama 2: Cage Uncaged. In the first installment of this N... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Rachel Maclean on Make Me Up
The work of Glasgow-based artist Rachel Maclean is a riot of colour, but then so is a coral snake. Her wild style takes its influences from children's films ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Music
Stranger Things Halloween album released
Sick of hearing Monster Mash on repeat every Halloween? New spooky compilation Halloween Sounds from the Upside Down by Stranger Things composers Kyle Dixon ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Paul Dano on his directorial debut Wildlife
Just because actors spend many an idle hour on movie sets, it doesn’t necessarily mean they pick up the skills of where to place a camera or how to com... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
Scottish Queer International Film Festival announces 2018 programme
The Scottish Queer International Film Festival continues to go from strength to strength. Now in its fourth year, the festival returns in a new winter slot a... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Josie Long takes debut feature Super November on tour
This November is set to get a bit more super as Josie Long takes her debut feature film Super November on the road, with a tour that takes in Glasgow Film Th... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Art
Creative Edinburgh Awards 2018: shortlist revealed
The Creative Edinburgh Awards return for their seventh edition on 14 November, and today the nominees in the running have been announced. Celebrating achieve... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Books
404 Ink and Neu! Reekie! announce Christmas extravaganza
This Christmas Neu! Reekie! and 404 Ink will celebrate the big one-oh (sort of) – they’ve come up with a tenth anniversary celebration as Edinbur... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago