Talk Review: Sean Connery presents The Hill, Sunday 24 August, Edinburgh Filmhouse

Yesterday evening I was lucky enough to be in the audience of a sell-out screening of 1965’s The Hill, a fantastic film at the best of times but made even better by the presence in the cinema of its star, Sir Sean Connery.
The event took place at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse and was the start of a [...]

Talk Review: Celluloid Sinatra, 2 June, Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Think of Frank Sinatra for a few seconds chances are you’ll conjure up images of the Rat Pack in their prime: Frank, Dean and the boys in 1960s Las Vegas. That’s a fine image to have, but there’s so much that gets forgotten and that Adrian Wootton did a fine job remembering in his illustrated [...]

Talk Review: Alan Grant, 28 January

It was a surprise worthy of a cliffhanger in any issue of 2000AD: former Judge Dredd scribe Alan Grant is a fan of Barbie. Island Barbie to be precise.
This bombshell came near the end of last night’s talk with the comics legend, held at Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh.
A question from the audience on which comic [...]

Event Review: Malcolm McDowell at EIFF 2004

I’m cheating with this one.
This is actually a review of an event that took place in Edinburgh back in 2004, but as I was at the one-man show mentioned, and it did partly inspire me to start this blog, I’m going to link to this article by Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) programmer Niall Fulton [...]

Welcome to it’s on…it’s gone

Have you ever flicked through the newspaper, read a post on a website or spoken to a friend about some film, talk, theatre production or gig that sounds right up your street but which was on last week and for some reason you haven’t heard about it till now?
Annoying isn’t it? Well that’s the main [...]