Tag: Film

Grassmarket Community Cinema Special Event: Girl Rising (PG). A girl’s self worth, confidence and power should radiate from within; when her potential is fully realized, the world is transformed. Empowering young girls to become powerful agents...

Picturehouses Toddler Time: exclusive short screenings for pre-school children and their parents and carers. Today: Q Pootle 5 Programme 10 (U): join the stars of the hit CBeebies show as Q Pootle 5, Oopsy, Eddi, Stella, Ray, Groobie,...

Iain Macdonald, Edinburgh Napier University“Will it be a happy or a sad film?” asks my 11-year-old son in anticipation of Disney’s new reboot of The Jungle Book. The answer depends on your attachment...

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) today announced that this year’s two retrospectives will be Look Again: A Celebration of Cinéma Du Look, a cinematic exploration of the unforgettable ‘Cinéma du Look’ wave of 1980 and...

We really like the official trailer for Iona as it features an earlier review of the film by The Edinburgh Reporter!But then our film reviewer, Douglas Greenwood, really liked the film itself, describing it as: "Utterly...

An insistent clamour of bells and horns recurs throughout Carol, evoking the stifling, heavy atmosphere of conformity that overlay early 1950s America. An older woman, the wealthy, strikingly beautiful Carol (Cate Blanchett), starts an...

The excellent Grassmarket Community Project screens a film almost every week - and admission is totally free, although they would of course appreciate any donations towards their work with some of Edinburgh's most vulnerable...

With the release of the new James Bond film this week we are reminded that Scotland plays a main role in many films including the previous Bond blockbuster, Skyfall. From Edinburgh’s most famous Skye Terrier,...

Macbeth – The Scottish Film **** I love Shakespeare. I love the complexity and the political machinations of the characters. The new Macbeth movie directed by Justin Kurzel is a great advertisement for Scotland. The landscape is...

ODEON Fort Kinnaird is offering guests a unique opportunity to watch the new hotly anticipated Ridley Scott sci-fi space blockbuster The Martian, starring Matt Damon, one week before its official release at 5.45pm on 24th September.In a ground-breaking...

Film and TV producers spent a record £45.2 million shooting on location in Scotland in 2014, Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop revealed today.The record high total - an increase of almost £12 million compared with...

Imagine watching a film where the sound track is impossible to make out properly.  You can’t follow the plot or appreciate the film, however hard you try.  If all sound tracks are like that,...

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 be a...

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has a proud tradition of showcasing films from around the world, from short films to future blockbuster; literally every taste is catered for. It has also become a favourite forum...

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 year's Edinburgh International Film Festival will begin in a few weeks with the directorial debut from Robert Carlyle, The Legend of Barney Thomson which stars its director along with Emma Thompson and Ray...

The Edinburgh Reporter was delighted to go along recently to have a look at the new cinema at Fort Kinnaird (and to enjoy the ice cream too!).Mark Hurst, ODEON Cinema Technology Manager has worked in cinema...

Films are big in Edinburgh this June with the Edinburgh International Film Festival taking place between 17 & 28 June and now some free outdoor cinema in the Grassmarket and St Andrew Square.There has...

We Are Many, a film documenting the largest ever protest on the UK mainland, will be debuting at cinemas across the country this Thursday 21st May.In Edinburgh, it will be showing, with live Q&A,...

Edinburgh filmmakers who recently won an Award of Excellence statuette are to have their short film, Avaritia premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this week.Avaritia, directed by Walid Salhab and filmed on the streets of...

Maisie Williams has taken the valiant nature from her role as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones and applied it to her part in Carol Morley’s The Falling. It is a film that embraces...

For the first time in its 68 year history, the Festival de Cannes has selected a film directed by a female as their prestigious opening film. Emmanuelle Bercot’s latest effort, La Tête haute, will...

I feel terrible for admitting it, but my expectations for Noah Baumbach's follow up to the near perfect Frances Ha were worryingly low. I have a slight issue with Ben Stiller; an actor who...

I have a theory that, regardless of everybody's personal tastes and fortes, we have a shared passion for really good films. The diversity lies in our own tastes; something that I'm sure people debate...

When Xavier Dolan made his return last summer with the enchanting, permissive Mommy – the film world focused its eyes on a trio of Canada’s finest actors. Two, the brilliant Anne Dorval and Suzanne...

ODEON - Europe's largest cinema group - will next week be bringing film back to Edinburgh's Fort Kinnaird retail park after a 10-year absence, by opening an all-new cinema at the site on Friday...

Blind, the impressive debut feature from Norway’s Eskil Vogt feels both confident and accomplished from the start, guiding you through a small group of characters that become so tightly intertwined, it becomes difficult to...

Last week, box office records were shattered with the release of the turgid Fifty Shades of Grey – a nonsensical cinematic depiction of dominance within sexual relationships. Just a week later, there is a...

In amongst the airy, ethereal atmosphere of Tim Sutton’s Memphis, there lies promise. An idea that could make this film work in a sort of bizarre amalgamation of Beasts of the Southern Wild and...

On a warm night in June at the Edinburgh Film Festival, I sat down, admittedly shattered, to watch a film I hadn't heard much about. I knew it was supposedly science fiction, and I...