ISSUE 7
Featuring Essays:

"Crafted in Motion — the Art of Stop Animation." – Karla Jelic-Balta

"Mermaids and Metaphors: Aquamarine and the Magical Messiness of Girlhood." – Isabel Hodges

"Hands Full: Decoding Cary Grant’s Hand Gestures in His Girl Friday." – Barney Nuttall

"The Silent Language — the Existence of the Irish Sound in Modern Cinema." – Fionn Morris

"Class in Golf Comedies." – Oliver Spicer

And Features On:

The Data Section: "Shakespeare’s On-Screen Adaptations"

The History Section: "Mockumentaries"

The Cartoon Section

With Interviews:

Dag Johan Haugerud, Director of the “Oslo Stories Trilogy”: Dreams, Sex, Love

Film Lists:

Odd Shakespeare • Hands • Rare Languages

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EIFF 2025 "They are both doing something for the living, for hope, for life."
An interview with the cast and crew of Mortician .


"Hegemonic forms of masculinity that seem to arise out of the combination of place and industry."
Helen Walsh on directing On The Sea .


"It's very important to tune in, to listen inside yourself"
Urška Djukić on directing Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica) .


"To me it's nuts that any of us survived our teenage years"
Nadia Fall on directing Brides .


"People don't really change at their core and that's not true in so many stories"
Ondine Viñao and Ivy Freeman-Attwood on Two Neighbors .


"It's more specifically a love letter to movie-going"
Mas Bouzidi on directing Concessions .


ISSUE 6
Featuring Essays:

"The Alien Feminine: Birth and Pregnancy as a Horror Spectacle." – Emily Costello

"20 Years of Bewitchment: Revisiting Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice." – Isabel Hodges

"Rural Resonances – Agnès Varda and Alice Rohrwacher." – Karla Jelic Balta

"Walk on the Whimsical Side: Navigating Urban Space in Jacques Tati’s Films." – Barney Nuttall

"My Family and Better Cinephiles." – Oliver Spicer

And Features On:

The Data Section: "Sci-Fi Technologies"

The History Section: "Disaster Films"

The Cartoon Section

With Interviews:

Joel Haver, Director of "12 Movies in 12 Months"

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ISSUE 5
Featuring Essays:

"4K Restorations, AI, and the Director’s Vision." - Matt Dodd

"Babygirl." - Chloe Buxton

"The Big Lebowski - To Abide or To Not Abide." - Eda Gokcen

"Tired Tropes and Fetish Frenzy: Trans Bodies and Representation in Emilia Pérez." - Emily Costello

"The Fingerprints of Auteurs." - Oliver Spicer

And Features On:

The Data Section: "The Best Trilogies"

The History Section: "Stoner Films"

The Biography Section: "Alice-Guy Blache"

The Cartoon Section

With Interviews:

Huw Wahl, Director of "Wind, Tide, and Oar"

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ISSUE 4
Featuring Essays:

"Genre and Spectacle in Jordan Peele's Nope." - Eda Gokcen

"On Abbas Kiarostami: A Study on Slowness in Cinema." - Karla Jelic-Balta

"The Death of The Happy Ending: Why Misery is the New Happiness." - Isabel Hodges

"Misogyny Masked in Music: Representations of Traditional Gender Roles, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence in Sweeney Todd." - Emily Costello

"The Cinematic Value of TikTok" - Oliver Spicer

And Features On:

The Data Section: "The Sound of Genre"

The History Section: "Czech New Wave"

The Cartoon Section

With Interviews:

With Adam Elliot, director of "Memoir of a Snail"

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ISSUE 3
Featuring Essays:

"Saints, Sinners, and Censors: Navigating the Narrow Connection between Anglo-Saxon Martyrs and Video Nasties" - Barney Nuttall

"Through the Lens of Body Horror: Representing Women and Female Bodies in The Substance" - Emily Costello

"The Holdovers and Finding the Spirit of Christmas During Bleak Winter Holidays" - Chloe Buxton

"Sex and the City: Sean Baker's Sex Workers" - Fionn Morris

"A Close Shave: The Semiotics of On-Screen Facial Hair" - Oliver Spicer

And Features On:

The Data Section: "Christmas Films"

The History Section: "Mumblecore"

The Cartoon Section

With Interviews:

With Directors at Edinburgh International Film Festival Including "And Mrs" (Daniel Reisinger), "King Baby" (Arran Shearing & Kit Redstone), "A Shrine" (Abdolreza Kahani + Cast), "Sunray: Fallen Soldier" (Daniel Shephard & James Clark), "Lollipop" (Daisy-May Hudson)

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ISSUE 2
Featuring Essays:

"Forever Young: Society's Vampiric Obsession with Youth." - Isabel Hodges

"Mia Goth Takes the Throne of the Contemporary Scream Queen" - Eda Gokcen

"Peeping Tom, the Pleasure of Looking and our Morbid Fascination with Violence Against Women" - Chloe Buxton

"Beetlejuice... Beetlejuice: The Juice is Loose Again?" - Emily Costello

"The Broken Projector: Apparatus Theory in the Uneasy Horror of Charlie Kaufman" - Oliver Spicer

And Features On:

The Data Section: "BOO! An Analysis of Jump Scares"

The History Section: "Hammer Horror"

The Cartoon Section

With Interviews:

With Directors at Edinburgh International Film Festival Including "Sing Sing" (Greg Kwedar), "Sunlight" (Nina Conti & Shenoah Allen), "Lilies Not For Me" (Will Seefried), "Xibalba Monster" (Manuela Irene & Samian Aguilar)

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ISSUE 1
Featuring Essays:

"The Green Ray: One Woman's Summer Vacation Alone, Embracing the Solitude of Self Discovery." - Chloe Buxton

"Turkish Cinema Through the Decades." - Eda Gokcen

"Malick and Being: The Influence of Martin Heidegger on Terrance Malick's Cinematic Project" - Bryn Gatehouse

"From Superheros to Super Problems: The Saturation of the Comic Book Market" - Isabel Hodges

"Water in Animation: Binary Opposition and Folklaw" - Oliver Spicer

And Features On:

The Data Section: "An Analysis of Top 100 Film Lists: Critics vs Audiences."

The History Section: "Gimmick Cinema"

The Cartoon Section

With Interviews:

"Hundreds of Beaver's" Cinematographer Quinn Hester

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