Film Review – Retaliation (2017)
Ludwig and Paul Shammasian previously brought starring James Cosmo drama, The Pyramid Texts, to the Edinburgh International Film Festival so...
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Film Review – Darlin’ (2019)
Lucky McKee's 2011 Jack Ketchum adaptation, The Woman, may not strike you as a film in obvious need of a...
Film Review – Snowpiercer (2013)
It's unbelievable to think Snowpiercer made its UK premiere at the 2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Nor we to know...
Film Review – I See You (2019)
Helen Hunt makes a rare foray into genre cinema with I See You from director Adam Randall. I See You...
Film Review – The Woman (2011)
Lucky McKee is without question one of the most controversial working horror directors. His most notable work, 2002's May, has...
Film Review – Aniara (2019)
Hard-hitting Swedish space opera Aniara delivers nihilistic horror as it explores the breakdown of societal norms aboard a tragic space...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Before You Know It (2019)
Hannah Pearl Utt co-writes, stars in and directs Before You Know It, a charmingly offbeat tale of two adult sisters...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – I See You (2019)
Helen Hunt makes a rare foray into genre cinema with I See You from director Adam Randall. I See You...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Gwen (2019)
William McGregor's Gwen is a staggeringly impressive debut delivers nerve-shredding Gothic dread centring on a rural Welsh community in the...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – She’s Missing (2019)
Irish writer-director Alexandra McGuinness takes us on a dreamy mystery through rural New Mexico in the atmospheric drama, She's Missing....
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Aren’t You Happy (Das melancholische Madchen)
German indie Aren't You Happy comes from writer-director Susanne Heinrich who puts contemporary womanhood under the microscope in a playful...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (2013)
Taking its title from The Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever, Living is Easy With Eyes Closed plays the Edinburgh International...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Bride (La novia)
Visceral Spanish drama The Bride plays as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival's Once Upon a Time in Spain...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Jim Jarmusch successfully took on vampire mythology in Only Lovers Left Alive – a lush and lethargic exploration of the...