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Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018: Preview
What makes a short film? Anyone looking for the answer will surely find it at Aesthetica Short Film Festival (7-11 Nov). Taking place each year in various ve... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Music
Spice Girls heading to Edinburgh on a reunion tour
Stop right now! It’s been announced that the Spice Girls – well, four fifths of them – will be reuniting for a UK tour next summer to spice... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Music
Sock 'n' Roll: Christmas gift socks that are also gig tickets
Socks, the classic Christmas gift for when you’ve run out of ideas. But this year these unimaginative presents are going to do much more than keep your... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Netflix film Roma tops Sight & Sound poll
A black-and-white drama from Mexico has topped Sight & Sound’s annual film of the year poll. No news there. But Roma, the new film from Oscar-winni... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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First Avengers 4 trailer suggests an emotional conclusion
At the end of Avengers: Infinity War, big purple baddie Thanos (Josh Brolin) had won. With a click of his finger, half of all life in the universe vanished i... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
Stag & Dagger announce 2019 line-up
Stag & Dagger will return to Glasgow next May Bank Holiday weekend and today the first wave of acts have been announced. On-the-rise Essex songwriter Rat... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Music
The Ninth Wave cover The Pogues for Christmas
Just ahead of Christmas, Glasgow four-piece The Ninth Wave have released a festive gift in the form of a cover of a track by The Pogues – but not... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Glass
Props to M. Night Shyamalan. Just a few years back the once-celebrated director of The Sixth Sense and Signs had become a punchline, his name a shorthand for... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Bill Murray reunites with his Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola
While it’s not yet clear if Bill Murray will take a role in the new Ghostbusters film announced this morning, we do know he’ll be back making a m... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Johnny Flynn to play David Bowie in biopic Stardust
Talk about under pressure! Actor and musician Johnny Flynn, perhaps best known for his charismatic turn in British thriller Beast, is set to play David Bowie... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Monos
On a misty mountain ridge, a group of teens play war – or at least we think they’re playing. Alejandro Landes’ thrilling, dreamy Monos is l... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Christian Petzold on WWII drama Transit
Christian Petzold is seated in the balcony bar of the Berlinale Palast, the posh venue that annually hosts the grandest premieres at the Berlin Film Festival... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
Doune the Rabbit Hole 2019: John Grant, Battles & more
Held over three days in rural Stirlingshire, Doune the Rabbit Hole is one of Scotland’s most intimate festivals and is set to celebrate its tenth birth... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Film
GFF19: The Vanishing
If movies have taught us anything, it’s that putting men in isolation far from society is never a good idea. Whether it’s a sun-soaked paradise i... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
Glasgow-set Wild Rose added to Glasgow Film Festival programme
When the Glasgow Film Festival programme was announced last month, one title was conspicuous by its absence: joyous Glasgow-set comedy-drama Wild Rose. Tom ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Film
Transit
Past and present collide in Christian Petzold’s inspired adaptation of Anna Seghers’ 1944 novel, Transit. At first, the German filmmaker appears ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
You can barely go a month without a major Hollywood actor trying the director’s chair out for size. The inflated egos of stars like Mel Gibson, George ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Full Andrea Arnold retrospective at GFT
Glasgow Film Festival may be over, but there’s still plenty of cinematic action on screen for the city's film fans to enjoy in March, including a full ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Film
Happy as Lazzaro
On a sun-scorched Italian hillside, a community of peasant sharecroppers toil. One of them, the eponymous Lazzaro, a teenager with broad shoulders and an ang... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Watch trailer for Bill Murray zombie movie The Dead Don't Die
OK, now we have what is, hands down, our most anticipated film of the year. The idea of Jim Jarmusch teaming up with old muckers Bill Murray (Broken Flowers)... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Joaquin Phoenix isn't laughing in the first Joker trailer
Are you sick of superheroes like Tony Stark and Captain Marvel cracking wise? Then Joker might be the comic book movie for you. Joaquin Phoenix doesn't do mu... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Film
Beats: Watch the trailer for the Scottish rave movie
West Lothian, 1994. The Tory government are waging war on youth culture and clamping down on the UK's illegal rave scene with the introduction of the Crimina... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Music
The Great Escape 2019: Scottish showcase bands revealed
The Great Escape is once again inviting a tidy crop of Scottish talent down to Brighton and Hove for this year's festival. Lewis Capaldi, The Ninth Wave, The... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Music
The Spook School's Niall McCamley unveils new project
Forget the Avengers. The only superhero we're interested in is the orange and pink spandex-clad crime fighter in the video for Bend Becomes Break, the first ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Margaret Tait to be celebrated with ten new films from Scottish filmmakers
Margaret Tait, one of Scotland's greatest filmmakers, will be honoured with a series of ten new films commissioned as part of Margaret Tait 100, the year-lon... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Toy Story 4 coming to Edinburgh Film Festival
Good news, Toy Story fans. Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Rex (Wallace Shawn), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Hamm (John Ratzenberger) and the gang will be back... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Beats: Meet the stars of the Scottish rave movie
The 90s are back! If you've any doubt about this assertion, just stick your head out the window and see what trendy youngsters are wearing (plaid skirts, ath... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Robert Pattinson playing Batman would be a waste of his talents
It looks like Twilight star Robert Pattinson is going to go from sparkly vampire to the Dark Knight. According to Hollywood bible Variety, Robert Pattinson i... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Film
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
John Wick, the dog-loving super-assassin at the heart of this ridiculous (and ridiculously entertaining) action franchise, must be exhausted. Five years have... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Music
SAY Award: Live at the Longlist – C Duncan, Kobi Onyame and more to perform
The SAY Award has today announced the acts playing its annual Live at the Longlist, at The Queen’s Hall Edinburgh on 26 July, and it’s a mouth-wa... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago