Edinburgh International Film Festival

Police, Adjective (Politist, Adjectiv)

22 Sep 2010

(12A) 114min Romanian writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu’s follow-up to 12:08 East of Bucharest is a deliberately paced and deceptively simple police procedural, which unfolds in the dreary streets of the filmmaker’s provincial home town of Vasilu.

Paul Sweeney describes his show using the medium of marker pens

Board Meeting: Paul Sweeney & Tom Webb

23 Aug 2010

Look at the cheeky wee grin on it. There's a panda AND a bear on this board, topped off with a Paul Sweeney sporting a lovely moustache. What more could a discerning audience member require? Oh, comedy. That too. Paul Sweeney and Tom Webb,The GRV.

Alex Zane

Best leave it to the professionals, fella

22 Aug 2010

In looks, manner and content, Alex Zane gives the impression of someone who entertained a passing thought that it might be a wheeze to come up and ‘do’ Edinburgh for a month like all those proper comics. Yet after this insipid hour of all-holds barred…

Joe Bor

An easy and relaxed way with the crowd

16 Aug 2010

Bor makes his Fringe debut with a show themed around embarrassment, but his collection of routines isn’t particularly harmonious and they vary greatly in quality, the weakest of them feeling like they’ve just been thrown into the mix. That said, Bor has…

Jungle Book: The Next Chapter

Monkeying around with Kipling’s classic

9 Aug 2010

Rudyard Kipling’s fables are part of the collective national psyche, so this follow-up from Glenn Elston and the Australian Shakespeare Company has a lot to live up to. The story picks up when Mowgli, now grown, returns to the jungle to visit Baloo.

Jo Caulfield - her off the telly sketches out her Fringe show Cruel to be Kind

Board Meeting: Jo Caulfield

7 Aug 2010

Another comedian puts pen to board for The List, to draw the essence of their stand-up. When asked how she'd flyer her own show, Caulfield explains she'd point at the flyer and ask, 'Do you know who she is? Off the telly? Well, it's her but she's much…

Andrew Lawrence gets a few things off his chest

The end result is some high-pitched and hilarious rantings

6 Aug 2010

Andrew Lawrence claims he doesn’t have a grand theme or gimmick to his show: he just wants to get a few things off his chest. Boy, does he want to get a few things off his chest. With most comedians you start to sweat for them after half an hour…

Taste returns to Edinburgh's reopened Liquid Room

The Liquid Room's Sunday regulars are back

4 Aug 2010

Here are some reasons to attend the 16-year-old Taste club night at the Liquid Room as the club re-opens in the middle of the of the Edinburgh Festivals

The sex-themed shows that turn Edinburgh into sin city during August

Pole dancers, prostitutes and rampant bedhoppers at the 2010 Fringe

16 Jul 2010

'Coming back from seeing the second Sex and the City film,’ says live artist Bryony Kimmings, ‘I was absolutely disgusted.’ And she’s not the only one groaning about the latest instalment of this once groundbreaking explicit comedy about the sexual…

Skeletons, The Dry Land, Get Low and Monsters among EIFF Award Winners

29 Jun 2010

Brit comedy Skeletons bagged one of the top gongs at the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival awards. The winners were announced at Cineworld prior to the screening of Third Star at the closing Gala last weekend, with EIFF patrons Tilda…