Edinburgh Short Film Festival

Misplaced the programme for The Edinburgh Short Film festival? Well here’s a useful link Edinburgh short film festival Action to animation and no longer than ten minutes a film, the short film festival is a must see this weekend 7-9th June. So if you’re in Edinburgh, make sure you head to Summerhall or the Granary…

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The Hangover – Part 3

I was quite excited to see the third instalment of The Hangover. I get easily attached to things, especially funny things, and I’ve enjoyed both of the Hangover films. I thought one was epic and two was hilarious! There’s always a chance part 2 and 3 of films are made just to cash in on…

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The Great Gatsby

It was with trepidation and nerves I headed to see The Great Gatsby this weekend. Having read the reviews and heard second hand a few times ‘it’s not meant to be good’ it was understandable. The F Scott Fitzgerald book is one of my favourites, and Baz Lurhmann? I just LOVE what he does with…

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Dreaming with your eyes open

Dreams are strange things, what one person dreams of is not necessarily what another does. What we hold dear, what we wish for is unique to us. More sunshine, that new job, that boys/girls attention, that new gadget, work for ourselves, that new house, to travel more, to worry less – it’s all unique to…

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The Sopranos – Season 1-3

After a flirtation with it last year, I started with tons more gusto watching Season One of The Sopranos. I love a good gangster movie, British or American, they all count. (I was saying to a friend the other day, many a time I’ve considered writing Rocknroller 2 and sending it to Guy Ritchie!) Anyways,…

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My Friends and Me – Top 10 Films of All Time

Choosing your top ten films of all time has to be one of the hardest things to do. If you love film on any level then you may as well try to ask yourself which of your children you love more. However, today, we attempted this. Myself and five friends have noted a list of…

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*Eye Roll*

Daft Punk have released the most amazing song..if you’ve been living under a box somewhere in a dark room and haven’t heard, welcome back to the world, dust yourself down and take listen. Daft Punk -Get Lucky Occasionally a song comes on and I stop in my tracks and have to listen to it on…

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Cocktail Making at Steak Edinburgh

Just finished up a great weekend in Edinburgh. It was one of rare and fabled sunny weekends, where you can sit outside cafe bars. Edinburgh is gorgeous in the sunshine, such a beautiful city. As the sun shines it makes me dream of summer, and summer makes me dream of cocktails. I think I know…

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Life Is In Charge

Every now and then life throws us some reminders of who’s in charge. We saunter along, sparkling in the sunshine and suddenly, with no warning, things change. And our world can be turned upside down in an instant. Unsettling everything we know. My very wise young college friend wrote a blog post about Life not…

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Place Beyond The Pines – Derek Cianfrance

On recommendation I watched Blue Valentine, immediately in went into my top 20 films, (yeah it’s THAT good). Then, during the Glasgow Film Festival, I caught The Place Beyond The Pines, and it’s now vying for a place in that top 20.(yeah it’s THAT good) Teaming up again with Blue Valentine leading man Ryan Gosling,…

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