3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (973+ words) Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026 Dispatch'The Wee Review Impressive series of films dealing with trauma makes the ordinary extraordinary Although it might not always be obvious in Edinburgh, spring has come around again, which means the return of the annual…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (212+ words) Not feline this one Once, Jim Jones was in one of the great overlooked bands, Thee Hypnotics. They played loud, scuzzy garage punk influenced by psychedelia and the proto-punk of The Seeds and Velvet Underground. Nowadays, sadly, he seems like…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1681+ words) Your film starts with a quote from Abbas Kiarostami, which really reminds me of his famous Koker Trilogy. What about his films informs you or inspires you? Basically, my inspiration in cinema is Abbas Kiarostami's cinema. I don't know how…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (187+ words) Third album still slaps As Thurston Moore continues to noodle away on uninspired gentle side projects designed to emulate the more commercial side of Neil Young, leave it to his ex Kim Gordon to make more interesting music; it seems…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (135+ words) Energetic and fun-filled indie-pop romp The overall feeling is one of inclusion and lighthearted fun; it's impossible not to smile and bop along through the string of well-performed songs and buoyant camaraderie. When they leave the stage after a raucous…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (453+ words) [It's] amazing to me that they were doing this over 100 years ago!' We speak to Kathy Rose O'Regan of San Francisco Film Preserve of their restoration of The White Heather, screening at HippFest 2026 Can you tell us about The White…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (92+ words) The prolific duo match their studio consistency with a show that ticks all the right boxes Both men have been making music in the rap "underground" for more than a couple decades now, a tough beat to maintain without getting…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago  (92+ words) We cast an eye over an alternate "80s punk dystopia, things going bump amidst the most mundane of settings, and a fairy-tale inspired Highlands horror All films screened at FrightFest, part of Glasgow Film Festival "It could be a celebration of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (75+ words) Editor Kevin Ibbotson-Wight reports on day one of FrightFest 2026 All films screened as part of Glasgow FrightFest, part of Glasgow Film Festival 10 March 202610 March 2026 A low-key but richly textured drama of an immigrant community in the Melbourne suburbs Interesting debut…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (311+ words) David Byrne's Who is the Sky? tour opens by transporting its Glasgow Armadillo audience to the barren lunar landscape, as the iconic Apollo 8 Earthrise image, slowly ascends above the horizon. The name of the accompanying bar'sorry, song, is of course,…...