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Here’s the Trailer for Robert Carlyle’s The Legend of Barney Thomson starring...
Robert Carlyle’s directorial debut is set to open the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival this evening, and Icon have jumped on this moment to release the first trailer for The Legend of Barney...
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EIFF 2015 – Therapy For A Vampire Review
It’s 1911, Vienna, and Dr Sigmund Freud (Karl Fischer) is using a young artist named Viktor (Dominic Oley) to help explore the symbolism of his patients’ dreams. One such subject is Count Geza von...
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EIFF 2015 – Last Days in the Desert
Several weeks into his self-imposed exile to the Judaean Desert, Yeshua (Ewan McGregor) happens across a family living in the mountains above Jerusalem. A father (Ciarán Hinds) is caring for his dying...
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EIFF 2015 – Dead Rising: Watchtower
It’s the zombie apocalypse again, but for the people of East Mission, Oregon this isn’t necessarily something to get worked up about. Having already seen two outbreaks since 2006, American organisation...
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EIFF 2015 – The Circle Review
When a troubled male student (Gustav Lindh) is found dead in the girls’ toilets, the incident is hastily labelled a suicide by his head teacher (Ruth Vega Fernandez) and blindly accepted by most of his...
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EIFF 2015 – The Road Within Review
Following the death of his mother, Vincent (Robert Sheehan) is interred at a behavioural facility by his embarrassed father (Robert Patrick), who hopes that Dr. Rose (Kyra Sedgwick) might be able to do...
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EIFF 2015 – Manson Family Vacation Review
Conrad (Linas Phillips) couldn’t have picked a worse time to re-enter his step-brother Nick’s (Jay Duplass) life; the latter has a lot on at work and at home, not least an increasingly strained...
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EIFF 2015 – How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) Review
In Bangkok, Thailand, an official summons to the annual military draft prompts a 21-year-old Oat (Toni Rakkaen) to recall his older brother’s experiences with the lottery, many years previously. A...
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EIFF 2015: Chicken Review
Littered with solid performances and adventurous photography, Chicken, this visually stunning debut from Joe A. Stephenson marks the beginning of a promising career. Chicken tells the story of brothers...
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Exclusive first look at the poster for The White King, starring Jonathan...
We’ve got a nice exclusive for you this afternoon: the handsome EIFF launch poster for Jörg Tittel and Alex Helfrecht’s The White King which has its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival on...
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Exclusive: First look at the poster for new British comedy Eaten by Lions
We’ve got a fun exclusive for you today, which also serves as notice of an impending British film which may get lost in the summer blockbuster scrum. Jason Wingard’s Eaten by Lions is one of this...
View ArticlePuzzle Review – EIFF 2018
In his debut feature as a director, producer Marc Turtletaub (Away We Go, Little Miss Sunshine, Loving) offers a slow-paced, charming and hugely engaging story about a downtrodden housewife who finds a...
View ArticleBecoming Animal Review – EIFF 2018
Over his long and illustrious career naturalist broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has in many ways come to define what audiences expect from a nature documentary. His landmark series, from 1979’s Life...
View ArticleThree Summers Review – EIFF 2018
As the 16th annual Westival gets underway, festival goers old and new descend on Gladstone Heritage Village in Western Australia and immediately settle into their rival camps: Aboriginal and Morris...
View ArticleMeeting Jim Review – EIFF 2018
Described by The Guardian as the founder of the social network, then just a drawer-full of address books for just about every major city in the world, Jim Haynes is perhaps the most famous person...
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The Apparition Review – EIFF 2018
There is something about French actor Vincent Lindon’s face which somehow manages to give any film he’s ever been involved in gravitas and urgency, no matter what the subject matter may be. Lindon, who...
View ArticlePiano to Zanskar Review – EIFF 2018
As he nears retirement age everyone around Desmond O’Keeffe expects him to slow down, to relax in a deck chair with a slice of lemon drizzle cake and reflect on his life’s work. However the piano tuner...
View ArticleAnna and the Apocalypse Review – EIFF 2018
The school year is half over and Anna (Ella Hunt) can’t wait to escape to Australia, even if it means missing the Christmas show in order to work off her ticket at the local bowling alley. After all,...
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The Eyes of Orson Welles Review – EIFF 2018
In his latest film essay The Eyes Of Orson Welles, director and cinephile Mark Cousins (Stockholm, My Love and The First Movie) presents a hugely compelling and deeply personal look at one of his...
View ArticleLucid Review – EIFF 2018
Zel (Laurie Calvert) is sleepwalking through life, part-funded by parental handouts and interrupted only occasionally by other people. He has a crush on a neighbour (Felicity Gilbert) and is in...
View ArticleLocating Silver Lake Review — EIFF 2018
Dumped by his girlfriend during graduation so that he doesn’t feature in her family photographs, would-be writer Daniel (Josh Peck) is left to begin a new life in Los Angeles lovesick and alone. He...
View ArticleNo. 1 Chung Ying Street Review – EIFF 2018
When student Chun-Man (Yau Hawk-Sau) becomes politicised by Maoist sympathisers and starts participating in protests against British occupation his childhood sweetheart Lai-Wah (Fish Liew) is at a loss...
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Exclusive Interview with Terminal Director Vaughn Stein
After years of working as assistant director on numerous big budget films, director Vaughn Stein (Adulthood, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Danish Girl) finally managed to realise his life-long ambition...
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Aurora – EIFF 2019 Review
In Finnish director Miia Tervo’s new comedy drama Aurora, a young woman whose life is quickly spiraling out of control, finds an unlikely kindred spirit in a taciturn Iranian asylum seeker. Set in...
View ArticleAlice – EIFF 2019 Review
In Josephine Mackerras’s French language drama Alice, Emilie Piponnier stars as an ordinary middle-class young mother and housewife who discovers that her husband has been living a double life. The...
View ArticleSamurai Marathon Review – EIFF 2019
Discouraged by the arrival of U.S. Commodore Perry (Danny Huston), aboard black ships laden with bourbon and gunpowder, feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira (Hiroki Hasegawa) of the Annaka clan views his own...
View ArticleThe Grizzlies Review – EIFF 2019
Arriving in Kugluktuk, Nunavut — a remote settlement in Canada’s Arctic North — to teach History, recent graduate Russ Sheppard (Ben Schnetzer) thinks he knows it all. However, his class is poorly...
View ArticleRobert the Bruce Review – EIFF 2019
A loose continuation of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, with Angus Macfadyen reprising his titular role as Robert the Bruce, Richard Gray’s spin-off takes place after the death of William Wallace but before...
View ArticleStrange But True Review – EIFF 2019
Five years on from the death of older sibling Ronnie (Connor Jessup), Philip (Nick Robinson) has returned to the family home with a broken leg and a bruised ego when his brother’s pregnant...
View ArticleThe Souvenir – EIFF 2019 Review
Bewildering, understated, and eerily enigmatic, these are just some of the ways one can describe The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg’s fourth and possibly best feature to date. Set in London during the 80s, the...
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