Wednesday 31 October 2018

A familiar face at Inverness Film Festival 2018

Inverness's 16th annual Film Festival is coming to Eden Court, with a familiar face, and will be shown between the 7 and the 11th of November.

Karen Gillan, Eden Court's Ambassador, and famous for Doctor Who and the Guardians fo the Galaxy and Avengers: Infinity War, is coming to Eden Court for the showing of her film, The Party's Just Beginning, which she has written, starred and directed.

There will range of films from many languages and countries, why not check the brochure for more information, and check out the Film Festival website?

I hope that you come, see and enjoy at Eden Court.

Neil Oliver comes to Eden Court

TV persenter and historian Neil Oliver is coming to Eden Court.

I first saw Neil Oliver on TV when he did Two Men in a Trench, doing digs on famous battle sites, such as Culloden near Inverness, with Tony Pollard.  Since then he has done other TV programmes such as Coast, a couple of Time Team episodes, The Last Explorers, three part series of Vikings, a programme about the Quintinshill railway disaster, a three part series with Alice Roberts called The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice, and, last year, a three part series Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets of Orkney.

He promoting his latest book, The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places and he will talking about it.

Here's you're possible last chance for tickets on Sunday the 18th of November.

I hope that you will come, see and enjoy at Eden Court.

Wednesday 24 October 2018

Christmas Craft & Food Fair 2018

Eden Court will be hosting a Christmas Craft and Food Fair between16th till 18th this November.

The Fair will be open between 12pm and 8pm on Friday the 16th.  Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th will be open between 10am and 5pm.  Entry is free for everyone who wishes to come.

Please do come to see and buy Christmas goods and entertainment.

I hope that you will come, see and enjoy at Eden Court.

Friday 19 October 2018

100th Blog Post - Jack and the Beanstalk comes to Eden Court

My 100th Eden Court Blog Post - Wow!

After Snow White last year, this December we will be seeing Jack and the Beanstalk coming to Eden Court as this year's pantomime with dastardly villains and comedy for all of the family.

Here's a link to the Eden Court website for days, times and tickets.  Can you manage the climb? There's still some tickets left.

I hope that you will come, see and enjoy at Eden Court.

First Man Review

I've been to Eden Court to see First Man, with Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, as it tells the story of how man got to the moon.

Having see documentaries about NASA and Apollo 11, I knew the true story and what was going to happen next as the film went along, but didn't stop me from enjoying the fast-paced and occasionally funny film.  The film allowed me to see Neil's journey to the moon while dealing with tragedies both in family and at work.

There has been talk about not showing Neil and Buzz put the American flag up on the surface of the moon.  But I found that not showing that moment didn't make any difference at that moment in the film, it enabled to feel that the journey was complete for Neil, and us as an audience.

Seeing Neil through his family and how his wife interacted with my work and the other wives of the Apollo astronauts was interesting most documentaries are usually and mostly from point of view from the astronauts, with very few from their families.

I was expecting to see captions at the end of the film telling what happened to Neil after Apollo 11, so I was surprised that there was none.

Overall, I enjoyed the film very much.

I hope that you will come, see and enjoy at Eden Court.

Monday 8 October 2018

Review of Ocean's 8

I went to see Ocean's 8 today, and I enjoyed the film.

The film's all female cast is certainly what most films lack as most films today are usually lead by a male cast, just as the Ocean's Trilogy did.  It was a nice surprise to see Elliot Gould appear along with the mention of Danny Ocean and short reprisal of "The Amazing" Yen.  The film's fast pace, non-linear storyline and the odd joke here and there, such as Cate Blanchett's nationality and John Frazier trying to a French's character's name, kept me looking forward to see what was going to come next.  When it was explained how the events turned out, I enjoyed how the target of the job was sorted and how robbery proved to be bigger than hinted.

After all the cameos during the film, Serena Williams and Alexander Wang and many more, one could argue that Anne Hathaway cameos as herself towards the end when her fictional character Daphne Kluger's "after the events' story" is played out.

A good light weight entertainment and a worthy successor of Ocean's Trilogy, I look forward to see it again.

I hope that you will come, see and enjoy at Eden Court.