Cines del Sur Granada Film Festival

As I know somebody who works in there, I’ve been lucky enough to attend the Granada Film Festival Cines del Sur with a general pass for the second year in a row, which is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand it makes you treat the festival programme like an all you can eat buffet, on the other hand, you occasionally find yourself stumbling out of a cinema at 1am, dazed and confused because you’ve just seen three films in a row. Either way, it’s a great experience.

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015

To get a handle on this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, and also so I could write this article, I decided to read the full EIFF programme, cover to cover, to see what fell out and what stuck from reading the basic, publicly released information. My overview? Good. Varied. Lighter than usual perhaps. A strong emphasis on American film. Lots of sex and prostitution. Ewan McGregor playing God. Not as globally and politically aware as you might expect.

Review: Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man

Matthew Bourne OBE has a reputation in ballet so great that it precedes him even when he’s 3,000 miles away and facing in the opposite direction. He and his productions have accrued a truly incredible number of awards and accolades and it was therefore always unlikely that I was going to give The Car Man a bad review.

Mad World: On Sane People in Insane Situations

I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Mad World exhibition from its online write-up, and once I got there I understood why. Part exploration of the history of mental illness, part art exhibition, part awareness-raising debate on how we talk about mental health, Mad World provides a real assortment of material to enable its audience to “discover the insane”.