Thanks to Eddie Harrison for this review. Original article is here: https://film.list.co.uk/article/92608-teenage-superstars/ EIFF 2017: Lucid and entertaining exploration of the 90s Scottish music scene, from Grant McPhee 'Artful desperation' is how Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore neatly characterises the Scottish music scene of the early 90s in one of the key interviews featured in Grant McPhee's documentary. Teenage Superstars is McPhee and co-writer Angela Slaven's follow up

Original Review here: http://www.vinyl-revolution.co.uk/big-gold-dream-the-sound-of-young-scotland-dvd-review/news/32 Thank you Vinyl Revolution I love Scottish Pop. If Spearmint hadn't already written a song about it (it's on their 2001 LP A Different Lifetime) I would have. But it's fair to say that Scotland's role in the development of punk and indie bands has been largely swept under the carpet over the years. Big Gold Dream goes a long way to rectifying this and sets out

http://toxicfletch.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/movie-review-night-kaleidoscope-2017.html A psychedelic fueled antipathy through Dada Land, luridly lensed in sanguinary obscenities, escalates vampiric cinema into something that is as ghastly as it is sensual as it is a unique commentary on art and depravity. A man sits alone in a room. Alone from the living that is, for his only companion is a corpse under a bloody sheet. Soon, though, he will be joined by vestiges of past events a

Original article by Ken Artuz www.decaymag.com Overview: Vampire films are one of the foundations of Horror cinema. Many versions of this concept have graced both small and big screens. Throughout the years’ writers and directors have sold their own version of these nocturnal deadly creatures. Megan Gretchen and Chris Purnell opted to bring a creative expression to vampires. Filmmaker Grant McPhee took this idea and developed a genre-defining blend of supernatural and psychol

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Tartan Features has a new film, it's most ambitious drama yet. (TF) Tell us a little bit about how Far From the Apple Tree came to be (Grant McPhee) My day job is in the film industry but removed from directing so I try and dedicate a little bit of each year to making my own projects. For the last two years I've been concentrating on finishing off two feature documentaries on independent music. One (Big Gold Dream) has just been screened on BBC and the other will be released