Film Review – Bait (2019)
Bait is a true cinematic experience, utilising every tool in film school to make a seemingly non-descript melodrama into a...
Ewan Wood
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Red Phallus (2018)
The Red Phallus is the debut feature from Bhutanese director Tashi Gyeltshen. It is the study of toxic masculinity in...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Grizzlies (2018)
The Grizzlies is an uplifting sports drama set in the remote Inuit town of Kuglugtuk in Nunavut, Canada. A true...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Aurora (2019)
A Finnish rom-com with a lot of heart, Aurora tackles tough issues of immigration, racism and alcohol abuse whilst maintaining...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...