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EIFF 2014: Night Flight Review
As they have grown up best friends Yong-ju (Lee Jae-joon), Gi-taek (Choi Jun-ha) and Gi-woong (Kwak Si-yang) have also drifted apart. Yong-ju and Gi-taek still hang out, but the former’s budding...
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EIFF 2014 – Final Whistle Review
Director Niki Karimi tackles Iran’s sociopolitical and gender issues in this brave, incredibly relevant film set against the 2010 World Cup. Presented on a print that crackles and fizzes, Final...
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Edinburgh International Film Festival Launches 2015 Programme
This morning, in a special presentation at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse, new Artistic Director Mark Adams unveiled the line-up for the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival. EIFF 2015, which is set to...
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First Trailer for Jamie Adams’ Black Mountain Poets with Alice Lowe, Dolly...
Announced yesterday as part of the Best of British line-up, Jamie Adams’ Black Mountain Poets will be getting its world premiere next month at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The comedy...
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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...
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