Buried: A New Musical (rating 3/5) Promising to be ‘darkly comic’ Buried starts off well with a memorable, nicely sung number in which a female serial killer, Rose, goes through a series of first dates that all end in murder. She then meets Harry and the two realise their similarities when they attempt to kill […]
Creepy tale from the woods is an admirable effort
The Devil You Know: A Horror Play (rating 3/5) Found footage horror has oversaturated the genre in the past decade or so (starting way back in 1980 with Cannibal Holocaust and then popularised by the Blair Witch Project in 1999, leading to more recent and tired productions like the Paranormal Activity franchise) but it it […]
Retro, funny, and a curious entry to the canon
Film review: Solo: A Star Wars Story (4/5) Since Disney took over the reins of the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas, its goal has been to expand the universe. First it started its own trilogy, with The Force Awakens (2015), and then showed us the people behind the destruction of the Death Star with […]
Classics old and new as free film fest returns
Free outdoor movies will return to St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, this summer following a sponsorship deal with a jam maker. Edinburgh International Film Festival and Essential Edinburgh is today launching Film Fest in the City with Mackays which will run from 15 to 17 June. Cinematic classics such as Casablanca, Top Gun, Ghostbusters, Big Trouble in Little China and Big, will be shown with modern […]
A spectacle to behold and worth the wait
Film review – Avengers: Infinity War (4/5) The buildup to the release of Avengers: Infinity War was filled with anticipation. Which characters were going to come face to face? Who would die and who would survive? Was it a one part or two part movie? For Scottish viewers there was also the excitement of seeing […]