Bait is a true cinematic experience, utilising every tool in film school to make a seemingly non-descript melodrama into a gripping feature. Developed on 16mm film, Mark Jenkin’s Cornish feature, emanates a detachment in keeping…
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2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Strange But True (2019)
Strange But True is certainly strange, but I am unsure about its truth. What starts as a tense, family thriller descends into insanity as the film enters camp territory with a slightly silly denouement, coupled…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Deposit
Director Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir’s debut The Deposit manages to say whole lot of nothing throughout its 90-minute running time. Every moment that it threatens to get exciting, it veers off into strange moral territory, bizarre character…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Ode to Joy (2019)
Jason Winer’s Ode to Joy is a rom-com based on a funny premise, that milks it to its greatest extent. Unfortunately, it runs out of steam a little after its brilliant opening. Martin Freeman leads…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – How To Fake A War (2019)
This is a brilliant concept executed incredibly poorly. Theoretically How to Fake a War should have been hilarious, but it manages to stumble at every hurdle. The film never really manages to establish the tone…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Bait (2019)
Bait is a true cinematic experience, utilising every tool in film school to make a seemingly non-descript melodrama into a gripping feature. Developed on 16mm film, Mark Jenkin’s Cornish feature, emanates a detachment in keeping…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Red Phallus (2018)
The Red Phallus is a slow film, filled with beauty, but it never manages to fully deconstruct the toxic culture that it analyses. Sangay’s story is a sad one,
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Grizzlies (2018)
The Grizzlies is an enjoyable and inspiring, if slightly unoriginal tale. The atmosphere DIRECTOR creates is fantastic: sombre and eerie against the barren backdrop of Nunavut.
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Aurora (2019)
Aurora is an entertaining and often hilarious riff on the classic rom-com.
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – The Man Who Feels No Pain (2019)
Vasan Bala’s The Man Who Feels No Pain is one of the films up for the audience award at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival and boy is it a lot of fun. It’s a light-hearted…
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Out Of Blue (2019)
If you fed a robot every script of CSI, NCIS and the like and asked it to come up with its own script, it probably would have produced Out of Blue. In actual fact, I…
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Daydream Nation (2018)
Whether you like Daydream Nation or not, really depends on your music tastes. If you’re a fan of Sonic Youth, then you have no doubt heard of the titular album and this will certainly be…
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Under The Silver Lake (2019)
I left Under the Silver Lake completely scatter-brained. I had no idea what had just happened. Director David Robert Mitchell essentially throws as much ludicrousness at the wall as possible and hopes some of it…
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Sisters Brothers is not just not your typical western, it’s not your typical anything. Jacques Audiard’s film is incredibly hard to categorise in both positive and negative ways. The cast is star-studded, led by…