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FilmCrystal 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 8 years ago -
FestivalsLa 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 almost 8 years ago -
FestivalsThe 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 almost 8 years ago -
MusicANNO: Anna Meredith & Scottish Ensemble @ Pleasance at EICC, Edinburgh, 18 Aug
Anna Meredith is the irrefutable queen of this year’s Edinburgh Festival. The composer has returned to the city in which she was raised this month with... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
MusicScottish Album of the Year Award shortlist revealed
And the award goes to... an album from this newly announced SAY Award shortlist. Tonight the SAY judges have narrowed their longlist of albums competing for ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
MusicCassette Store Day returns for 2018
Since 2013, music fans have been coming together to hail the glory of the compact audio cassette in the form of Cassette Store Day, and the annual celebratio... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
TheatreSci-fi classic Solaris adapted for Edinburgh’s Lyceum
Existential sci-fi is heading to the Lyceum next year, with the Edinburgh theatre teaming up with the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne to adapt Stanisław Lem&r... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsThe Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival returns for a fifth edition
The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival is back for its fifth edition this October offering a snapshot of Spanish cinema in 2018. Proceedings kick off with Jon G... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
ArtGlasgow CCA 'to remain closed until mid-October'
Update on 13 Sep: CCA's provisional opening date moves to mid-October. Glasgow School of Art has informed Glasgow City Council that it hopes to declare th... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmThe Best Film Events in Scotland this September
1. Take One Action! We need Take One Action! (TOA), the UK’s leading social change film festival, more than ever. In a world where politicians lie d... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
BooksRoald Dahl’s Matilda turns 30
Want to feel old? Roald Dahl’s Matilda, the five-and-a-half-year-old bookworm with telekinetic powers, would now be in her mid-30s. This children's boo... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmThe Best Film Events in Scotland in October
1. Africa in Motion The essential Africa in Motion returns with a fittingly vibrant opening in Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki, a pulsing work about two very ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmPark Chan-wook is GFT’s latest CineMaster
Park Chan-wook is a master stylist. Influenced by the cinema of Hitchcock, De Palma and Cronenberg, his fluid camera moves in thrilling and often beguilingly... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
MusicGiorgio Moroder heads to Glasgow on first ever live tour
If it wasn't already undoubtedly clear, the 80s are back. So much so that Giorgio Moroder, the Godfather of Disco and the artist whose pioneering synth pop i... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
MusicBelle and Sebastian to score Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird debut film
We’ve not heard much about Stuart Murdoch’s film career since his fizzy directorial debut with Glasgow-set musical God Help the Girl. The Belle a... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsFive films to see at French Film Festival 2018
French cinema is often the punching bag for the type of cultural critics who equate watching a film with subtitles to eating your cultural vegetables. But an... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmScottish talent shines in BIFA nomination list
The BIFAs (the British Independent Film Awards) continue to make a fine antidote to the stodgy BAFTAs. By the time the Oscars roll around next year, you&rsqu... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmChris Pine and David Mackenzie on Outlaw King
Heroes are easy. Real characters, people who are flawed and complex and full of contradictions, they can be tricky — but they’re so much more int... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Theatremanipulate announces its 2019 programme
This February, Puppet Animation Scotland's manipulate festival returns with another innovative line-up of award-winning visual theatre, puppetry and animated... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsAesthetica Short Film Festival: 2018 Round-up
Aesthetica is huge. Back in York for its eighth installment, the short film festival spreads itself out across the city, making great use of an eclectic arra... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsThe Matrix takes over the Arches at GFF 2019
The blue pill or the red pill? That’s the choice Glasgow Film Festival will be offering up this year as they bring the Wachowskis’ 1999 film The ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmMargarethe von Trotta is GFT’s latest CineMaster
During the 1960s and 70s, world cinema was awash with filmmaking waves. The Nouvelle Vague were reinventing film language, the New Hollywood were shaking Ame... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Film Festival to celebrate Spanish cinema
Each year Edinburgh International Film Festival takes the temperature of the cinema of a different country; Canada, Poland and Finland have been among the na... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsJonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s to open Glasgow Film Festival
Glasgow Film Festival rarely disappoints when it comes to their opening and closing galas, and the 15th edition of the much-loved festival is no exception. T... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Music80s sensations Bros are back with a live show
Remarkably, in 2019, Bros are the band on everybody's lips. The reason the Goss brothers, Matt and Luke, are back in the spotlight is thanks to the hilarious... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsRiverside Festival announce 2019 line-up
Riverside Festival returns to Glasgow for its seventh edition this May, and today the stonking line-up for the electronic weekender has been announced. Orga... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsBo Burnham brings Eighth Grade to Glasgow Film Festival
By this time next week we’ll all know the sure-to-be-interesting line-up of the 15th Glasgow Film Festival, with the full programme revealed on Wednesd... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmJason Reitman directing a Ghostbusters Sequel
A Ghostbusters sequel is coming! But it’s not the lively, goofy, all-female reboot from 2016 that’s getting a new film, but the much-loved o... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmWatch the first trailer for the Robert Pattinson-starring High Life
French auteur Claire Denis (Beau Travail, 35 Shots of Rum, White Material) might be the finest director working right now, so it goes without saying that her... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmOscar nominations betray #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite
Oscar results should always be taken with a pinch of salt. As a rule, Best Picture never goes to the film of the year. If you’ve watched past winners l... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago