https://youtu.be/5WyBz9UlYHI Based on the Film by Hayao Miyazaki Adapted and Directed by John Caird Co-Adapted by Maoko Imai Tickets: £28.00 ★★★★ The guise of gods and myths take unique forms in limitless manners over countless cultures. But no matter what – we share stories of selflessness, fear, and the intricacies of growing up. And where we in the UK … Continue reading Review: Spirited Away – The London Collessium
The Manipulate Festival, Scotland's international festival of animation, film, movement, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 17th season. This year's festival will run from February 1st - 11th across multiple physical and online venues. The full programme can be found here. Next week, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate Festival 2024
The Manipulate Festival, Edinburgh's international festival of animation film, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 16th season. This year's festival will run from February 2nd - 12th across multiple physical and online venues in and around Edinburgh. In two weeks’ time, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most extensive international … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate 2023
https://youtu.be/B-2xxKAPssk Written & Directed by Gints Zilbalodis Latvia/2020/75mins ★★★★★ Turning back, a young boy lives in the shadow of a hulking beast, a colossus of immense stature and being. Shrouded in amorphous black wisps and eyes, no matter how far ahead he escapes the being – its presence follows. Away is a concise, relatively short feature from … Continue reading Away – Review
https://youtu.be/26DIABx44Tw Directed by Glen Keane Written by Audrey Wells USA/ 2020/ 95 mins ★★★ Fairy tales and stories sit at the hearts of children and move with them as they come to understand the world and its intense complexities. When her mother passes, and her father slowly begins to introduce a new partner into their … Continue reading Over The Moon – Netflix
https://youtu.be/Sjcf19B4Viw Written & Directed by Oskar Lehemaa, Mikk Mägi Estonia/ 2019/ 88 mins ★★★ Milk, it is a dangerous substance – or were you not aware? Causing chaos, its necessity to the small communities across the world leads to a disturbing reliance on the soft, quivering underbellies of so many cows. The stop-motion animation The Old Man may … Continue reading The Old Man: The Movie – Fantasia Film Festival
https://youtu.be/aXc9DVfLTGo Written by Mari Okada Directed by Jun'ichi Satô & Tomotaka Shibayama Japan / 2020 / 104 mins ★★★★ leeping all day, prowling all night – the life of a cat seems a pretty sweet gig, right? No responsibilities, no commitments and all the glasses you can knock off the table. For Miyo Saski, being … Continue reading A Whisker Away – Netflix
“As infinite as nature itself” Neelu Bhuman’s omnibus of short films TRANSFINITE defies the expectations of a societal construct and achieves a place as a force of nature. The sixth annual Scottish Queer International Film Festival will run October 14th to 18th 2020, with the full programme available in August, but for now, these accessible digital productions … Continue reading TRANSFINITE – Scottish Queer International Film Festival
https://youtu.be/MgRjB8PEDkM Written & Directed by Adam Elliot Australia/2009/92 Mins ★★★★★ A two-fold coming-of-age narrative ‘Mary and Max’ (2009) charters the progression of Mary, a young, ‘chubby’ and socially anxious Australian, into a woman, friendship with Max, a middle-aged Atheistic Jew in America. Pen pals, a support system, their friendship grows as Mary seeks an escape … Continue reading Mary and Max – Retrospective Review
https://youtu.be/HnG4ag3Nkes Based on the book by Lois Lowry Written by Kris Pearn & Mark Stanleigh Directed by Kris Pearn, Cory Evans & Rob Lodermeier ★★★★ At one point or another, we’ve all fallen out with our folks, maybe to the extent we wish we had been adopted but hopefully not to the extreme where we … Continue reading The Willoughbys – Netflix
