15 h. ago Fringe icon Camille O'Sullivan lends voice to play based on legend of Leith Faerie Boy

Edinburgh Fringe icon, Irish singer and actor Camille O’Sullivan, has lent her voice to Fallen Angel, a new play inspired by an supernatural Leith folk story, written by award-winning writer and direct tor Liam Rudden, running at the Grand Lodge on George Street from 19 to 23 August.

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66 h. ago Imagine review – profound conversations meet trippy visuals in one

Taika Waititi, Yael Stone and Ian Thorpe are among the big names lending voices to this ‘chaotically strange’ animation drawing on Indigenous perspectivesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI’ve never seen a film quite like this chaotically strange animation from writer-directors Tyson Yunkaporta and Jack Manning Bancroft, who fill it with slap-happy pleasures and plotlines that bounce around like pinballs.Attempting to explain the narrative is a fool’s errand, like trying to tickle yourself. I can say with confidence – assuming I didn’t unknowingly consume magic mushrooms beforehand and hallucinate the entire thing – that the story follows a teenager, Kim (voice of Yolande Brown), who gets pulled into a surreal alternate universe that they explore with their new pal Jeff (Yunkaporta), a bright-green alien dog. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

Locarno film festivalBen Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adultsEnglish experimentalist Ben Rivers offers up another challenging, intriguing cine-poem, this time on the nature of existence and the end of the world. It is opaque but with flashes of strange brilliance, an adaptation of The Word for Snow, a one-act stage play by Don DeLillo from 2007 that reflected on the climate crisis.A child called Moon (Moon Guo Barker) wanders around a strange world, entirely peopled by other children, except for one eerie monochrome sequence in which Moon sees adult figures in some kind of underground tunnel, frozen in attitudes of dismay similar to the citizenry of Pompeii. In the course of her travels, bookended by clambering out of a crashed car and finally driving happily off, Moon has dreamlike encounters with these children who speak with the tongues of a...

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1 week ago Celtic, Rangers, St Mirren... we want to be a threat to them all, says Motherwell boss as he hammers home style guide

Jens Berthel Askou doesn't want to change Motherwell's style of play based on opposition teams

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2 w. ago Scots drug kingpin Ross 'Maimi' McGill warned 'We'll take you out in the desert'

Rivals have told Dubai-based drugs kingpin Ross McGill not to play hide and seek.

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2 w. ago Scots drug kingpin Ross 'Miami' McGill warned 'We'll take you out in the desert'

Rivals have told Dubai-based drugs kingpin Ross McGill not to play hide and seek.

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