Alexandra Wingate

Reviews: 78

Other Articles: 48

Sound It Out

An uneventful snooozefest

Bleak Night (Pasuggun)

A masterful study on bullying.

Weekender

90s drugs, raves, and nostalgic fashion

Meet Monica Velour

Great acting fails to hide a confused script

The Divide

Survival at all costs as a group of strangers are trapped inside a nuclear bunker

The Caller

Nothing that hasn’t been seen or done before

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Plenty of weird but not enough wonderful

Brain Disorder: Electric Mind

The benefits of controversial electroconvulsive therapy

Page Eight

Brimming with hot topics, a plot doesn’t get more timely than this

Mourning for Anna (Trois temps aprés la mort d’Anna)

Learning to live after loss

Our Day Will Come (Notre jour viendra)

Will Ferrell meets Natural Born Killers

Ghosted

Frustratingly mediocre British cinema

Bobby Fischer Against the World

Chess is cool – and much more important than Watergate

Tomboy

A film overflowing with issues surrounding sexuality, identity and childhood innocence.

Truth About Men (Sandheden Om Mænd)

A mid-life crisis proves there’s no such thing as a happy ending

Jane’s Journey

A biography of the extraordinary primatologist and activist Jane Goodall

Red Note Ensemble’s Electric Noisy Nights

An experimental open mic night for new contemporary music at the Traverse

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Film Fest Freebies

Skint over the EIFF? Check out the freebies on offer

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Red Note Ensemble’s Electric Noisy Nights

New contemporary music from around the world in this free event at the Traverse

The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church

A tale of a suicide postponed by life from 2009 Fringe First Award winner, Daniel Kitson

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Project: New Cinephilia

A new online discussion board is unveiled by EIFF, culminating in a day of events and workshops.

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Interview: Paul Wilson

The Real Hustle’s Paul Wilson tells us how even he worries about being conned

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MagicFest 2011

Izzy whizzy let’s get busy: it’s MagicFest 2011

Paul Daniels: A Salute to The Great Lafayette

100 years since his death, Paul Daniels pays tribute to The Great Lafayette