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Mull Theatre [ONLINE]

Braw Tales [ONLINE]

Charming, quirky, and beautifully braw animated tales

Giants and Toys

Absurdist comedy-drama appeals to both the sweet tooth and sour taste

One-Armed Boxer

Technically iffy, but highly entertaining kung fu action

Army of the Dead

Zack Snyder continues to be all style in a fun, but hollow genre-mash up

Helen McClory
Bitterhall

A dark, ghostly quality pervades this unique read from Helen McClory

Psycho Goreman

The kid-friendly splatterfest you didn’t know you needed

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The first great le Carré adaptation is a fatalistic masterpiece

Oxygen

Uninteresting and predictable addition to the sub-genre of single location thrillers

St Vincent Daddys Home

St Vincent
Daddy’s Home

Introspection and retro influences make for a satisfying album

Some Kind of Heaven

Life in a Florida retirement community that offers sun and not so splendid isolation

Kei Miller
Things I Have Withheld

Silence rather than words encapsulate Miller’s courageous essays on racism

Helen Paris
Lost Property

Heart-warming debut novel captures feelings of loss perfectly

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Teen exploitation that shows too much middle-aged flab

The County

Subversive comedy exposes shady business practises capitalising on farming communities

Buffet Lunch The Power Of Rocks

Buffet Lunch
The Power Of Rocks

Debut album gives good angular, and much more

Fried Barry

Alien odyssey through Cape Town is a deranged, hedonistic delight

Here Are the Young Men

Nihilistic look at self-destruction and toxic friendships where the direction sabotages most of the promise

Online

Planet of the Grapes [ONLINE]

A bizarre show blending profound science fiction with classic toy theatre

The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Pitlochry Festival Theatre [ONLINE]

Tennis Elbow [ONLINE]

Funny, frothy feast for your ears

The Darjeeling Limited

Wes Anderson’s Indian journey takes him into geographically and culturally-unfamiliar territory