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The Weight of Elephants

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rialto Cinema - Moray Place Monday 19 August 12pm Rating: 3.5/5 The Weight of Elephants is a dramatic film set in rural Invercargill, directed by New Zealand born and raised but Denmark-based Daniel Joseph Borgman. The story follows 11-year-old Adrian (Demos Murphy), a sensitive and Read more...

The East

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Jonny Mahon-Heap

Rating: 4/5 A rare environmental-political thriller, The East represents one of the bigger-budgeted and more purely enjoyable options from the 2013 film festival. It’s a curious combination of The Departed meets Martha Marcy May Marlene, and combines the best talent from American indie cinema Read more...

Us and the Game Industry

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rialto Cinema - Moray Place Friday 23 August 6:30pm Rating: 2/5 The video game industry is currently nearing the end of a transitory period. The transition isn’t happening within the industry, but rather in how people outside of the industry perceive it. It is a transition toward an Read more...

Pussy Riot: A Punk Rock Prayer

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Josef Alton

Rating: 3/5 It’s a story that has begged to be told outside of the news media. Maxim Pozdorovkin and Mike Lerner’s Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is an intriguing documentary that tells the story of how and why three young activists were arrested and prosecuted for publicly opposing the Russian Read more...

Interview: Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Aaron Hawkins

The film Blackfish: is it about orcas in captivity, or is it about the SeaWorld empire and their treatment of orcas in captivity, or is the overlap of those two so strong that it’s one and the same thing? Yeah, you know, I told a story. I came in as a mother who took her kids to SeaWorld and Read more...

Interview: Anthony Powell

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Through your film you explore many aspects of Antarctica, but did you have one encompassing goal or message you wanted to communicate? Yeah I guess my initial drive was just trying to articulate the experience, and I guess I had the “a picture tells a thousand words” cliché in my head. I just Read more...

App of the Week | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Raquel Moss

Pixlr is a great web app for quick but thorough image editing. It’s better than Microsoft Paint; it’s not as good as Photoshop. This is not one for graphic designers, and if you use it, your graphic designer friends will cringe. But it does the trick. Open up the web app and you can choose Read more...

Freemium and Subscription Models Making Life Harder for Pirates

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Raquel Moss

Just as with music there is a trend in the gaming industry to offer subscription models to gamers, which has had an impact on gaming piracy. Game purveyors are offering perks for players who opt in to paid subscriptions, such as free games and online multiplayer, while punishing pirates by Read more...

Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 3.5/5 English two-piece Fuck Buttons have spent the last decade crafting their own assaultive brand of electronica. Drawing influence from Aphex Twin and Mogwai, they snub gloss and perfectionism in favour of songs that are loud, coarse and engulfing. Though performed on an impressive Read more...

Zahava Seewald & Michaël Grébil - From My Mother’s House

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4.5/5 I have had a lifelong fascination with echolocation, the act of mapping an area through the use of sound. The most obvious example is sonar – the technique bats and whales use to gauge their surroundings. Echolocation is also popular among musicians, and is used by artists to Read more...