

Naked Aye Art Collective announce latest exhibition ‘Shapes that Shift Desire’
In an effort to showcase the beauty and complexity of the human body, Scottish arts collective Naked Aye have announced the followup exhibition to their successful pop-up show this past spring. For two weeks between More...

Film Review: We Are Your Friends (Max Joseph, 2015)
In the shadow of the Hollywood hills, a group of four wasters earn a living as failing nightclub promoters – but amongst them lies a musical gem. Cole is an inspiring DJ, reluctantly left to make his money in More...

Inside Out’s Ronnie del Carmen: the Pixar storyteller that will make grown men cry
The first time Pixar’s Ronnie del Carmen made himself known to us was in the waiting lounge of Edinburgh’s APEX Hotel in search of a restroom. “Hey guys,” he grins, “I won’t More...

Review: The Legend of Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, 2015)
With an illustrious screen acting career that has spanned the best part of 25 years, it’s bizarre to think that it has taken until now for Robert Carlyle to grab the reins of a film as the director. His first More...

On DVD/Blu-Ray: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2014)
Found under the bark of a bamboo shoot, a tiny girl flourishes into a beautiful young princess under the watchful eye of a bamboo cutter and his wife. Both headstrong and eager to please, the girl finds herself More...

Review: The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher, 2014)
In a dilapidated farmhouse not far from the sea, a set of sisters find themselves working on their father’s beekeeping farm; the oldest at the helm. Struck for money and with many mouths to feed, they enter More...

EIFF 2015: Our Top Five
Last night signaled the end of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s 69th year. The first with film critic Mark Adams at the helm, the festival seemed to be a stable, accessible success with a rare, More...

EIFF 2015: Iona (Scott Graham, 2015)
When Iona and her son make the journey through the night from her Glasgow family home to the sand swept sights of the Scottish isles, barely a word is said. There’s a power in this silence that says so much; More...

EIFF 2015: Narcopolis (Justin Trefgarne, 2014)
In 2024, a copper walks the streets of London fighting crime following the legalisation of all types of recreational drugs. But, when he is removed from a case in which he tries to identify an unclaimed corpse, More...

EIFF 2015: Scottish Mussel (Talulah Riley, 2015)
You know you’re in for a real treat when the starting notes of The Proclaimers’ 500 Miles pipe through the speakers. An apparent obligatory hallmark to Scottish cinema it seems to have been abused as More...