https://youtu.be/2RrQ2h-ME_c Written by Bradley Fowler and Cady Lanigan Directed by Matthew Goodhue US and Serbia/2023/15/93mins ★★★ Sharks, drug-addicted bears, flocks of birds and enough dogs to fill a shelter or three, but when thinking of terrifying, monstrous, and quick-natured killers – one animal makes it to the very bottom of the list: Sloths. Or so … Continue reading Review: Slotherhouse
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
https://youtu.be/6SRD5tAFIWA Written by Tom Powell Directed by Elle While and Rachel Lambert UK/2023/60mins ★★★★ In 2021, the UK’s largest playwrighting prize allocated space for three winners in the industry's toughest times. One of these (very) deserving three was Tom Powell’s The Silence and the Noise, a drama of two teenagers on the very edge of life. … Continue reading The Silence and the Noise
https://youtu.be/p_dXQxrksOE Directed by John MacLaverty ★★★★ If you’ve ever traversed a fraction of the shores and winding roads around Loch Ness, there’s one thing that staggers any unfamiliar with the landscape – the scale, the depth, the enormity of Scotland’s most famous Loch. With a volume greater than all of England and Wales’ collective fresh-water … Continue reading Loch Ness: They Created a Monster
https://youtu.be/0VH9WCFV6XQ?si=GZSxKRGNo5edX885 Screenplay by Scott Cawthon, Seth Cuddleback, and Emma Tammi Directed by Emma Tammi ★★ There are some not-so-quiet corners of the internet where the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise holds a vice-like grip of fandom. The excessively lore-heavy and intricate video game series from Scott Cawthon found stratospheric success with reaction videos and let’s plays … Continue reading Five Nights at Freddy’s
https://youtu.be/VcbpHerOI4A Hearts racing, blood flowing and an eagerness to strap on some hiking gear and a go-pro. It can only be one thing: Banff. Returning to its home in Edinburgh at the Festival Theatre, where once more audiences are reminded of the venue's tremendously clear and large-scale screen, the Banff Mountain Film Festival is an annual event, … Continue reading The Banff Mountain Film Festival: Red Programme – Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/9FXCSXuGTF4 Written and Directed by Wes Anderson US/2023/105mins ★★★ How we’ve often wondered what goes on in one of the most-popular contemporary auteur’s mindsets when constructing some of the most visually grand, obscure, and language-grappling films: The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox and even an island full of Dogs. Adore them, or think they’re self-aggrandising, it’s … Continue reading Asteroid City
https://youtu.be/QpHEFY4cq_k Directed by Pete Ohs Written by Andy Faulkner, Callie Hernandez, Pete Ohs, Ashley Denise Robinson and Will Madden 2022/72mins ★★★ Fed up with the leering and continually unwanted advances from men, it’s no wonder the extremes women resort to in evading stalkers and persistentance. And though the film transitions itself in storytelling genres, and … Continue reading Jethica
https://youtu.be/BRb4U99OU80 Written by Akela Cooper Directed by Gerard Johnstone USA/2022/102mins ★★★ If you’ve been on the internet for more than a day, you’ll likely have seen the ‘M3GAN dance’ – the viral advertising for the film showcasing the titular film’s animatronic lead/antagonist and its kitsch and ostentatious style. But beneath the camp horror, M3GAN aims to introduce new … Continue reading M3GAN
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
