2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Strange But True (2019)
Amy Ryan leads a cast of familiar faces in Strange But True, a thriller that revels in taking viewers on...
Andrew McArthur
Obsessed with all things film, television, and pop music. Worshipper of John Waters, Roman Polanski, and classy French actresses.
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant)
Bruno Ganz takes one of his final supporting roles in The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant) an Austrian coming of age drama...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival 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 – 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 – Possum (2018)
Influences of Lynchian surrealism and the psychological end of Hammer Horror productions are lurking in Possum, an unsettling British thriller that stuns with...
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Feeling Of Being Watched (2018)
Documentary filmmaker Assia Boundaoui delivers a deeply personal, unsettling account of the scarcely documented surveillance placed upon American-Arab communities. Boundaoui...
2019 Glasgow Film Festival – Keep Going (2018)
Director Joachim Lafosse transforms Laurent Mauvignier's novel into a feast for the senses as he depicts a mother and son's...
2019 Glasgow Film Festival – Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
S. Craig Zahler's name was one that adorned the lips of many a genre fan after his blisteringly intense Western...
EIFF’ 2018 Review – Swinging Safari (aka Flammable Children)
Seventies excess and debauchery are on the table for Stephan Elliott's latest Ausploitation comedy, Flammable Children (aka Swinging Safari). This...
EIFF’ 2018 Review – Solis (2018)
Playing out like Gravity on a budget, Solis, joins a slew of space survival films, but its prescriptive narrative ultimately...
EIFF’ 2018 Review – Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Tiffany Bartok directs Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story, a comprehensive glimpse into the life of the A-list American...
EIFF’ 2018 Review – Piercing (2018)
After the utterly devastating horror of The Eyes of My Mother, filmmaker Nicolas Pesce turns his attention to cult Japanese...
Film Review – Mario (2018)
Marcel Gisler's Mario tackles a little explored issue in cinema - homophobia in the world of football. Arriving at an...
EIFF’ 18 Review – Songbird (2018)
Cobie Smulders leads Songbird, a British indie comedy from writer-director Jamie Adams. The actress shines in this fish out of...