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“What did you want to be when you grew up? Who did you see that made you think, I could do that too?” Scottish artist Carla J. Easton says, &ldq... Read more »

Many industries have taken a hit during the coronavirus pandemic, but among the worst-affected must surely be red carpet manufacturers. Not a foot of the stu... Read more »

For a small nation with an increasingly distinct cultural space within the British film industry, Scotland has had peaks and troughs of production. But in te... Read more »

This rolling page will keep you up to date with events and gigs cancelled or moved in response to the pandemic, as well as venue closures. As the COVID-19 p... Read more »

Harvey Milk (who, as the final scene of this documentary confirms, has truly earned his place as the gay Martin Luther King) famously prayed that any bullet ... Read more »

Cowboys and Indians are two of the oldest film archetypes. As we all know, however, Hollywood's tendency to portray one as "good" and "the other" (appropriat... Read more »

On a Newcastle council estate, 17-year-old twins Owen (McEntire) and Kristen (Clark) are full-time carers for their infirm mother. With a lack of money and s... Read more »

One of Svengali’s running jokes is that protagonist Dixie – a postman from rural Wales who ups-sticks for London hoping to nurture a distinctly u... Read more »

Brits Harry Treadaway and Game of Throne's Rose Leslie are fresh-faced American newlyweds Paul and Bea in Leigh Janiak’s entertaining if problemat... Read more »

Jalainur is a surreal vision of reality caught between past and future, foreshadowing the nostalgia that will set in when Old China disappears in the turbule... Read more »

Dario Argento's latest film, Giallo, sees the director return to his roots. It is reminiscent of his works during the seventies, such as Suspiria, but lacks... Read more »

The Hollywood debut of EIFF alumnus David Mackenzie, Spread is a surprisingly entertaining parable about a vacuous but louche LA hustler. The supremely cynic... Read more »

  Prison drama Ghosted sees sinister head-honcho jailbird Clay (Craig Parkinson) and quiet, just-want-to-do-my-time-guv con Jack (John Lynch) vie for t... Read more »

Girimunho opens out of the gloom and into light. Our indefatigable octogenarian protagonist, Bastú, goes on a similar journey. The film begins with B... Read more »

The internet is a dangerously empowering tool in this true story, which has been knit into a taut thriller by British director Andrew Douglas. Set in 2003, u... Read more »

When a person is murdered and the body burned, all that is left is a name and a sum total of everything said about them; distort the shape of their life's ou... Read more »

With Joe, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche) returns to his roots, examining the grim reality of society’s underclass wi... Read more »

Violet opens with a silent act of violence, the murder of a teenage boy in an empty shopping mall, wordlessly captured from multiple angles on CCTV. After wi... Read more »

Hellions is like chewing gum: it begins promisingly enough, with a genuine sense of foreboding and serviceable performances from the lead (Chloe Rose as teen... Read more »

In a bid to take bromance to the next level, Lynn Shelton, from the Mumblecore movement, brings us Humpday an awkward yet hilarious sex comedy about two budd... Read more »

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Hellion is a low-key family drama that explores grief and responsibility. Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Hollis, a boozy single parent who&r... Read more »

I reach the Cineworld Fountainbridge in the nick of time to catch Antichrist. I walk through wind and rain to get there (rather appropriately as it turns out... Read more »

Adapted from a French comic, directed by South Korean maverick Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), and featuring a stacked roster of American, Europ... Read more »

A compelling central performance from Peter Ferdinando is not enough to save Gerard Johnson’s derivative and deeply unpleasant thriller, Hyena. Ferdina... Read more »

Prior interest in the life, music and untimely passing of Amy Winehouse is not required for Asif Kapadia’s second documentary to floor you completely. ... Read more »

Exam, screen-writer Stuart Hazeldine's first feature, is a low budget film disguised as a slick, big budget production. The premise is simple - eight candid... Read more »

This isn’t the first Brake review to reference Buried, and it almost certainly won’t be the last. Like Rodrigo Cortés’s tense 2010 t... Read more »

Private lives of the Peoples Republic of China are played out in the public space of a Chengdu park and recorded as historical document in Libbie D Cohn and ... Read more »

After decades of zombies being used for satirical commentary, a new wave of films seems concerned with heavy exploration of the emotional undercurrent of lov... Read more »