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.

Review: Mercedes Sosa: Voice of Latin America

Before I even start reviewing this film I would like to point out that I am a massive fan of Mercedes Sosa. If you don’t know who she is (which is okay, we can’t all be experts on 20th century Latin-American singer-songwriters, right?) I recommend you look her up. Maybe start with this song

Over The Rainbow: Monthly Edinburgh Filmhouse events/screenings

I love leafing through the Filmhouse programme. The proper printed one, not the website. It’s like reading an old style travel brochure, you look at the pictures and think “Oh, that looks nice! And this one. Maybe not that one, that’s a bit much for me.” What’s both best and worst about the programme is that it covers quite a long period, in theory allowing me to plan my next trip to the cinema properly. In practice I usually pick up the programme a few days before the next one is due out, meaning that all I get is a beautiful collection of missed opportunities. So the latest Filmhouse initiative is an absolute godsend: Over The Rainbow is a series of screenings and events that run monthly and focus on LGBTQIA experiences.

Review: Cara Josephine, Josie Long

I’m a big fan of standup comedy and when we started the Edinburgh Feminist Review a few months ago I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to review: Wicked Wenches, the monthly all-female comedy night at the Stand. So you can imagine my disappointment when I checked their website and found out that it was no longer a thing.

Review: Slavery & Song, St Andrew’s & St George’s West

The concept of this show seemed brilliant. Obviously, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have gone. And although it takes quite a lot to get me into a church, Slavery & Song: New insights into the songs of slavery sounded like the kind of event where I could learn a lot, particularly since my knowledge of US slave music is more or less limited to Paul Robeson singing Ol’ Man River and I’m pretty sure that that doesn’t count.

Review: The Vagina Monologues, Relief Theatre

For a feminist blog, this one seems obvious, doesn’t it? You think feminist play, you think The Vagina Monologues. But while I consider myself a well-read feminist, I have to admit that I was new to this play.