REVIEW: Manipulate Festival: Animated Documentary Shorts
Reading Time: 3 minutesManipulate Arts - Scotland’s home for cutting-edge animation, puppetry and visual theatre - today announces the programme for the 19th edition of Manipulate Festival.
Category Film
FEATURE: Re-reading The Handmaiden’s Love, Performance, and the Politics of Adaptation
Reading Time: 2 minutesSelected by Emerald Fennell as part of her Love Stories programme at BFI IMAX, Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden arrives already framed as an exemplary but disruptive romance. It is a positioning that feels both apt and slightly provocative.
FEATURE: Many Good Men
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the wake of Netflix’s Adolescence, a spate of high profile misogynistic killings, and also the last few millennia of humankind, misogyny has been a hot topic.
REVIEW: The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks
Reading Time: 2 minutesTom Hanks narrates The Moonwalkers at Aviva Studios Manchester, an epic experience offering a unique perspective on humankind’s past and future voyages to the moon.
Lightroom’s powerful projection and audio technology will transform the immense space into a vehicle for a spectacular
REVIEW: Home Alone
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis beloved festive-favourite features renowned composer John Williams’ charming and delightful score which will be performed live to picture by a full orchestra. Since its debut in 2013, Home Alone in Concert has become a seasonal favourite with orchestras and audiences around the world.
REVIEW: Moving Pictures
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s Moving Pictures at The Bridgewater Hall was an atmospheric and evocative celebration of some of the very best 21st-century film scores.
REVIEW: Ocean Film Festival
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Ocean Film Festival presents a series of nine short films about the ocean and the people who dedicate their lives to it.
REVIEW: RRR in Concert
Reading Time: 2 minutesRRR’ is a feast for all audiences, and together with the musical stylings of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, it was a truly unforgettable cinematic event.
FEATURE: The One Event to Rule Them All: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Comes to Life at the Royal Albert Hall in 2026
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a momentous celebration marking the 25th anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring, the Royal Albert Hall will host an unforgettable cinematic and musical journey—The Lord of the Rings Weekender.
REVIEW: Gladiator in Concert
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor its special 25th anniversary, Gladiator returned to the big screen, presented in association with CineConcerts, this five-time Academy Award-winning film came to the Royal Albert Hall for a screening with live orchestra, performed by the world-renowned Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorus.