John Landis – An American Director in Scotland
The recent twenty fifth anniversary of Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn international horror film festival having taken over the Filmhouse for a weekend of features and documentaries including the UK premieres...
View ArticleDiary of a Geek Week at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2018
Now in its seventy second year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival dominates the capital for two weeks with premieres, retrospectives, red carpets, in person events and outdoor screenings of...
View ArticleBig Screen Science with Rick Edwards and Doctor Michael Brooks
Appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in support of their book Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies, based on the podcast of the same name, on the early afternoon of...
View ArticleTaking the challenge of Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N.
The Avengers may be Earth’s mightiest heroes but as the battle against Thanos for the Infinity Stones rages on and with the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. still operating in the shadows, new heroes are needed...
View ArticleDiary of a Geek Week at the Glasgow Film Festival 2019
The fifteenth year of the Glasgow Film Festival has been its biggest yet, with over 42,000 admissions and guest including White Collar‘s Matt Bomer, Beast‘s Jessie Buckley, former Python Michael Palin...
View ArticleHarry Dean Stanton: All Roads Lead Here
If anyone was to personify the feeling “I recognise the face but his name escapes me,” it must surely have been the late Harry Dean Stanton who died in September 2017 after a long career which included...
View ArticleBreathing Thin Air with Richard Morgan
With eighty authors in attendance at Cymera, Scotland’s festival of science fiction, fantasy and horror writing, labyrinth of the Pleasance was like a trip to another world over the second weekend of...
View ArticleComposing Space Opera with Ken MacLeod, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Gareth L Powell
With eighty authors to be accommodated at Cymera, Scotland’s festival of science fiction, fantasy and horror writing, it was inevitable that in order to facilitate the programming of the weekend that...
View ArticleDiary of a Geek Week at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2019
Now in its seventy-third year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year welcomes Richard Dreyfuss to the city for the world premiere of Astronaut, while elsewhere there is science fiction...
View ArticleDiary of a Geek Week at the Glasgow Film Festival 2020
It opens at escape velocity with Proxima from Disorder’s Alice Winocour’s and closes with the FrightFest weekend which will see thirteen horror films (dis)grace the city, many of them UK or Scottish...
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