CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. EAT TOO MANY McDonalds and you’ll get fat. It’s commonsense. Eat McDonalds breakfast, lunch and dinner for a month and you’ll get really fat – right? Well, as Morgan Spurlock’s documentary suggests, you may end up with bigger problems than weight gain – try breathlessness, heartburn, a toxic liver and […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. A ROAD TRIP round South America that helped define a 20th century romantic and revolutionary icon is the subject of Walter Salles’ latest film. Gael García Bernal, (Bad Education, Amores Perros) takes the lead, in the role of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.    In 1952, before Guevara became the beautiful rebel-hero […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. IF YOU FANCY a bit of romance this week, head to the cinema. Ken Loach’s new film, Ae Fond Kiss , is a classic love story about young lovers opposed by family and friends, set in Glasgow.    Roisin (Eva Birthistle) is a young Irish Catholic music teacher. Cassim is […]

CATRIONA PAUL discovers a wealth of potential talent for the future of Scottish film at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival

Arts Journal film reviewer CATRIONA PAUL takes a retrospective look at the films of Orcadian poet, artist and film-maker Margaret Tait

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. RECOMMENDING YOU spend an hour and a half watching camels might sound an unlikely proposal. But The Story of the Weeping Camel, in which rarely a scene passes without a camel in shot, is a beautiful and moving docu-drama offering a window to another world – that of the nomadic […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. VIOLENCE, ALCOHOL and hopelessness played out amongst Edinburgh’s grim closes and stony stairs. Tough subject matter from first time writer-director Richard Jobson, unsweetened in the making. Sixteen Years of Alcohol may be interesting to Scottish film-makers and Edinburgh inhabitants, who can take turns at spotting false moves and landmarks, but […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. Stage Beauty is an absorbing drama set in Restoration London from director Richard Eyre, (of Iris fame), and writer Jeffrey Hatcher. Inspired by two famous actors from the 17th century, much of the action in this film centres on the theatre. No surprise then to find it compared to Shakespeare […]

ROXANE PERMAR reports on the Scalloway Moving Image Web Project in Shetland.

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. I’M NOT SCARED is based on Niccolò Ammaniti’s novel, which currently features on a 3 for 2 deal at WH Smiths. If you don’t already know the story, so much the better, for this film works on suspense and a surprise finish, without which, you could get bored.    I’m […]