Built in the mid nineteenth century, the building formerly known as Lady Glenlorchy’s Parish Church still stands in Edinburgh’s Old Town and will likely stand for a hundred
“And for my next trick” indeed, as magician Kevin Quantum returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following his previous hit shows Quantum Magic and Illuminations with not one but
It is London, 1884, and fifteen years have passed since the serum of Doctor Henry Jekyll was released into the native population, shattering the walls of self and
“I remember everything,” survivor Summer murmurs, bracing herself against a brick wall for support, blood splattered down her face and through her generous curls. “The singing, the dancing,
Nostalgia is a strange beast, particularly when expressed by someone who wasn’t actually there at the time. There is a tendency to look back on the past and
There is a persistent bias to laud the achievements of those seen as peers over those nominally determined to be “the other.” Those of open mind, when presented
And so it comes to it, the final confrontation between man and apes, the conclusion of the trilogy unexpected in its depth and achievement coming as it did
In order to work effectively the architecture of a ghost story is fundamental; this is not to say the structure of the story, the slow dreadful build of
While it is not unheard of for the fantastic cinema of Russia to make its way to the west – Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris in 1972, Timur Bekmambetov’s Night