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The Survivor

The Survivor

(3 stars)21 Jan 2009

HORROR Somehow I first saw The Survivor on TV round my gran’s house when I was about seven-years-old, and it terrified me to my core. I don’t think I even made the end of the film. Now, this 1981 adaptation of James Herbert’s book is getting a…

Audio: Fear in Lothian - Special effect exhibition

Audio: Fear in Lothian - Special effects exhibition

19 Dec 2008

Fear in Lothian is an exhibition in The Cameo Cinema bar, Edinburgh which showcases some of the the models used by Gibbet Studios, a company who provide special effects services for film shoots. Here Calum MacDonald talks to Paul Dale from The List…

Film - Also Released

Film - Also Released

11 Dec 2008

White Christmas (U) 120min New digital print of this Christmas staple. GFT, Glasgow and Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Fri 12-Wed 24 Dec. North Face (12A) 121min Exciting historical adventure recounting the dangerous ascent of the Eiger in 1936 by two…

Mum & Dad

Mum & Dad

(3 stars)11 Dec 2008

(18) 85min If you appreciate black humour and have a strong stomach there’s much to be admired in Steven Sheil’s low budget British horror. Exploiting the ongoing trend for torture porn, it transports the sadomasochistic splatter-fest of the Hostel…

The Guard Post

The Guard Post

(3 stars)11 Dec 2008

(18) 120min (Cine Asia) South Korea certainly has a healthy film industry. As the American magazine Film Comment mused when the wave of their films first crashed on American shores – ‘is there actually more bilge than brine in the splash?…

The Children

The Children

(2 stars)27 Nov 2008

HORROR The current fad for evil kiddie chillers – see Ils (Them) from France, Eden Lake from the UK and While She Was Out from the US – continues with another British horror flick in which children do diabolical things to disbelieving adults. As the…

Quarantine

Quarantine

(2 stars)13 Nov 2008

(18) 89min Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s grimly effective Spanish-zombie movie [REC] gets the Hollywood treatment in John Erick and brother Drew Dowdle’s scene-by-scene remake. Quarantine purports to be the surviving document of what happens…

While She Was Out

While She Was Out

(2 stars)13 Nov 2008

(18) 82min This urban chiller executive produced by Mexican fantasist Guillermo del Toro and starring the enduringly gorgeous Kim Basinger and evergreen teen-alike Lukas Haas starts off promisingly but all too swiftly proves as lame as its pedestrian…

Summer scoops top prize at Bafta Scotland awards

Summer scoops top prize at Bafta Scotland awards

10 Nov 2008

Summer, Grand Theft Auto, Gary’s Wrr and Lorraine Kelly were amongst the winners last night at the Lloyds TSB BAFTA Scotland Awards. The ceremony, at Glasgow’s City Halls with an audience of over 800, was broadcast live online worldwide.

Puffball

Puffball

(3 stars)30 Oct 2008

An adaptation of a Fay Weldon novel by Nicolas Roeg seems to boast all kinds of potential. Yet somehow, even given a strong cast, the piece dissipates both its ideas and narrative tension with ham fisted symbolism and uneven performances. In it, a…

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