On this August episode the Cinetopia team (this month Jim Ross, Garry Arnot, and Amanda Rogers) cover the Barbenheimer movies, Greta Gerwig's BARBIE and Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER. We continue our coverage of Edinburgh International Film Festival which begins this week (18th-23rd August) with reviews of PASSAGES directed by Ira Sachs, and AFIRE, directed by Christian Petzold plus some of our recommendations for to catch at this edition of Edinburgh's premiere film festival.

Show Rundown:

16:45 - BARBIE (dir. Greta Gerwig) review

37:30 - OPPENHEIMER (dir. Christopher Nolan) review

1:05:30 Edinburgh International Film Festival Coverage begins

1:06:30 PASSAGES (dir. Ira Sachs) review

1:19:40 AFIRE (dir. Christian Petzold) review

On this month's episode, Cinetopia's Amanda is joined by film critic and show regular, Simon Bowie, to review a nice selection of summer films. First up is Mission: Impossible 7 - Dead Reckoning Part 1, 2 hours and 49 minutes of action and not much else (in our opinion :)). Next up is a new charming dutch documentary, SHABU, directed Shamira Raphaela. Simon and Amanda, both self-proclaimed Wes Anderson fans talk through his latest, Asteroid City, and how it holds up to his other films over time (or maybe doesn't?). Tune in to find out!

Finally, Amanda also sits down with some of the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival programme team including Kate Taylor, Programme Director, and Rafa Sales Ross, one their core programmers to talk through this year's film festival programme!

Time Stamps

00:00 - Intro and Industry Topics - WGA/SAG-AFTRA STRIKE & EIFF Intro

10:15 - Mission: Impossible 7 - Review

25:10 - Shabu Review

34:45 - Asteroid City Review

53:20 - Interview with Edinburgh International Film Festival Programming Team including Kate Taylor, Programme Director and Rafa Sales Ross, Programmer.

1:18:15 - Closing Remarks

Aired originally 20th June, 2023 on EHFM -

This month, show host and Cinetopia co-founder, Amanda Rogers is joined by Cinetopia curator Amaya Bañuelos Marco and show regular and critic, Clara Strachan, to review the 2023 Sheffield Doc/Fest. They review together 4 films from this year's programme: TISH, YOUR FAT FRIEND, THE CASTLE, and LONELY OAKS.

Clara talks to Dr. Jess Brough, founder and co-director of Fringe of Colour Film Festival which is happening from 23-29 June in Edinburgh. Amanda also sits down with TISH director, Paul Sng, which was the opening film of the 2023 Sheffield Doc/fest and also speaks with Rohan Berry Crickmar, an organiser of the Folk Film Gathering happening across Edinburgh in June 2023.

for more about our events and programmes, go to Cinetopia.co.uk

Amanda Rogers from Cinetopia was joined by Garry Arnot and Clara Strachan to discuss four new release films this month: The Eight Mountains directed by Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch currently out in cinemas. Plan 75 Chie Hayakawa, a Japanese film also out in

On our April edition of the Cinetopia Radio show and podcast, Cinetopia's Amanda Rogers is joined by show co-Producer Jim Ross (Editor-in-Chief, TAKEONECinema.net) to talk about the recent activity of the Save Filmhouse campaign and our proposed activity around the 40th Anniversary of the classic Scottish film, LOCAL HERO. Also on this episode, Amanda and Jim review the following new release films: RENFIELD, ONE FINE MORNING, and RODEO.

[originally aired on EFHM 21st March, 2023] On our March edition of the Cinetopia Radio show and podcast, Cinetopia's Amanda Rogers is joined by Amaya Banuelos Marco to talk about the recent activity of the Save Filmhouse campaign and the recent protest outside the building. Also on this episode, show regulars Garry Arnot and Simon Bowie recap their time at the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival including reviewing the following films: Typist Artist Pirate King, Other People's Children, Sanctuary, and March on Rome. Amaya joins Amanda again to talk about the 2023 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival.

For our February episode of 2023, Amanda Rogers from Cinetopia was joined by Garry Arnot to discuss our OSCAR predictions as well as review new release films: BLUE JEAN, a debut feature directed by Georgia Oakley, SUBJECT, Directed by Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall, NOSTALGIA, director by Mario Martone; We also preview the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival including reviewing the festival's opening film, GIRL. Amanda also sat down with the documentary director, MARIE LIDEN, who was recently nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer, for her direction of ELECTRIC MALADY

For our first episode of 2023, Amanda Rogers from Cinetopia was joined by Garry Arnot and Simon Bowie, and together they reviewed the following new release films: TAR, directed by Todd Field and starring Cate Blanchett; ENYS MEN, Mark Jenkin's latest feature film; SAINT OMER, documentary filmmaker, Alice Diop's first narrative feature, and Jerzy Skolimowski's EO. Amanda also interviewed Sean Lìonadh, director and writer of TOO ROUGH, a Scottish short film that has already won the Scottish BAFTA awards among many others in 2022.

Check out Simon's new film review project reviewsperminute.simonxix.com and Garry's review blog as well, https://cinemaperspective.com/. 

a trailer of Sean Lìonadh's TOO ROUGH can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Y8-pbBY9o

This month, Cinetopia co-founder and Director Amanda Rogers is joined by show co-producer Jim Ross (TAKEONECinema.net Editor-in-Chief) and show regulars Simon Bowie and Stephanie Brown to review the following films this month: Banshees of Inisherin, The Oil Machine, and Causeway. Amanda Rogers also interviews Jim Hickey, former Director of the Filmhouse and Edinburgh International Film Festival (from 1979-1993) who shares an incredible history of these two Edinburgh film institutions and their importance for both the city but also UK and international cinema, as well as Patti Mroz and Ali Campbell, two former Filmhouse supervisors and Bel Ingham, a former FOH member of staff who set up the Former CMI Staff Welfare Fund

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