There are some things that can’t be changed. The emptiness of the prairie. The loneliness of a night alone. The judgement of a vengeful god. The death of

It was in 1962 that Shirley Jackson published the final novel she was to complete in her lifetime, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, three years after

The cheer of the crowd at the basketball game at the high school gym, the ring of the telephone at the dimly-lit exchange, the buzz of the neon

Amber needs to get her head in the game and keep her eyes on the goal but she can barely keep her eyes on the road, almost knocking

Travelling to space is all about the numbers: velocity, altitude, mass, thrust, the thousands of variables which can lift a vast metal object from the surface of the

A quiet rural town where the most the local police force have to contend with of a day is the bickering between farmer Frank Miller and his vagrant

Now in its seventy-third year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year welcomes Richard Dreyfuss to the city for the world premiere of Astronaut, while elsewhere there is

Damon Gameau has a dream, but it is not an unreasonable one. He wishes his young daughter Velvet to grow into adulthood into a world better than the

Lost in space, a bubble drifting without hope or direction, the starliner Aniara is out of control, the three week voyage from the Earth to Mars disrupted when

A regular and reliable contributor to the Edinburgh International Film Festival whose features The People vs George Lucas, The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus and