EIFF 2014 Review – Falling Star (2014, Stella Cadente)
A surprise stand-out of this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival is Luis Minarro's Falling Star (original Spanish title 'Stella cadente')...
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EIFF 2014 – Medeas (2013)
Andrea Pallaoro's powerful study of a family faced with geographical and psychological isolation, Medeas, hits the Edinburgh International Film Festival...
EIFF 2014 Review – Let Us Prey (2013)
Despite a promising opening and some interesting thematic concepts, Scottish horror Let Us Prey quickly goes off the rails veering...
EIFF Review – Palo Alto (2013)
James Franco's short story anthology gets streamlined for the big-screen with Gia Coppola (Granddaughter to Francis Ford and niece to...
Film Review – Grace Of Monaco (2014)
As someone who grew up adoring the over-the-top theatrics of Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davis' later works and...
Film Review – Jimmy’s Hall (2014)
Let's hope the rumours about Ken Loach's retirement are proven untrue as it would be a tragedy for him to...
Film Review – Fading Gigolo (2013)
On paper, Fading Gigolo, a New York set comedy starring and directed by John Turturro and featuring such talents as...
Film Review – The Two Faces of January (2014)
The work of Patricia Highsmith makes a triumphant return to the big screen in Hossein Amini's adaptation of the late...
Film Review – Sabotage (2014)
Since leaving political office, Arnold Schwarzenegger's projects have been enjoyable throwbacks to his heyday: The Last Stand boasted a similar...
Film Review – Pompeii (2014)
After disappointing at the US Box Office and getting a mauling by many an American critic, Paul W. S Anderson's...
DVD Review – Child Of God (2013)
James Franco is a man with many strings to his bow - and this is something that seems to irk a...
Film Review – The Quiet Ones
Ripe with slow-burning chills, The Quiet Ones harks back to the glory days of Hammer Films' psychological-horrors - and marks...
Film Review – Divergent (2014)
Starting a young adult film franchise appears to be a challenge these days - something that is apparent through such...
Film Review – About Last Night
David Mamet's hit 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago gets its second big screen adaptation in Steve Pink's About Last...