It’s impressive to think that a period tale set in the early 1800s could have a contemporary resonance in 2018, yet Haifaa Al-Mansour‘s Mary Shelley does. Emma Jensen‘s screenplay captures the Frankenstein author’s struggles in regards to both her personal life and professional life, impeccably performed by Elle Fanning. In the shadows of her parent’s […]Read More
Maggie is beautiful, Maggie is forthright, Maggie makes everyone cherish her friendship. However, love is messy for Maggie (an illuminating Greta Gerwig) who longs to have a baby so much but cannot find Mr. Right leading to the decision of artificial insemination with hippie gentleman suitor Guy (Australia’s own Travis Fimmel). On the day of this procedure Maggie meets […]Read More
“Here We are, born to be kings, we’re the princess of the universe“,30 years ago Queen where the kings of rock stadium. This was also the year a Belgium Christopher Lambert pretends to be Scottish and then there was Sean Connery been Sean Connery and Queen sung the soundtrack. In 2016 they will once again […]Read More
Alright geezers, are you ready for this review of new Brit-flick White Island? Benjamin Turner’s Ibiza set-crime thriller sees former Emmerdale heartthrob Lyndon Ogbourne chased through Ibiza by Darren Day with the result something of a poor man’s Carry On Abroad for the Essex Boys generation. Ogbourne stars as Connor, a former Ibiza DJ working […]Read More
Brit horror FirstBorn received its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival with some high expectations. The project sees director Nirpal Bhogal team-up with screenwriter Sean Hogan for a familiar, albeit somewhat efficiently executed horror tale. FirstBorn follows two young parents (Anthonia Thomas and Luke Norris) as they slowly discover that their young daughter, […]Read More
Patrick Wilson and Ian McShane take on the cartel in contemporary western meets Mexploitation flick, The Hollow Point. Director Gonzalo López-Gallego ensures this is a fun, action-packed trip even when navigating through Nils Lyew‘s overcomplicated narrative. After Sheriff Leland (McShane) is signed-off duty, Sheriff Wallace (Wilson) takes jurisdiction over a small US-Mexican border town – […]Read More
“I’m the love witch. I’m your ultimate fantasy” glamorous Elaine seductively exclaims in Anna Biller‘s gorgeously lavish occult film, The Love Witch. Biller has crafted a visual feast which pays tribute to sixties occult cinema with fervent passion resulting in the strongest piece of cult cinema in years. Modern witch Elaine (Samantha Robinson) creates love […]Read More
Film festivals are great for providing us with marvellous little curiosities like Guillaume Nicloux‘s The End in which he re-teams with his Valley of Love star Gérard Depardieu. This perplexing piece is an enthralling watch that finds its power in quiet revelations and its gripping tension. Depardieu plays a character simply dubbed The Man who […]Read More
An adaptation of any existentialist novel is bound to be a challenge for even the most experienced of filmmakers, let alone a writer-director making their feature debut. However, up and coming filmmaker Balazs Juszt appears to love a challenge and for his feature debut he adapts G.K. Chesterton‘s 1908 metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was […]Read More
Polish fairytale The Lure is quite unlike anything else to be shown at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival or well, anywhere. The project from director Agnieszka Smoczynska and writer Robert Bolesto is the world’s first eighties-inspired mermaid musical horror – and mostly lives up the fun suggestions of that premise. The eighties-inspired house band […]Read More
The first of two new Gerard Depardieu films to play the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year is Saint Amour, a gentle comedy-drama from writer-directors Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern. Saint Amour follows the colourful road-trip of bickering father and son duo, Jean (Depardieu) and Bruno (Benoît Poelvoorde). Alongside their hapless taxi driver Mike (Vincent […]Read More
Isabel Coixet‘s Endless Night (Nadie quiere la noche) pits a woman against the Arctic elements in this inconsistent yet entertaining survival drama. The project is a co-production between Spain, France and Bulgaria and was selected to open the 65th Berlin Film Festival in 2015. Written by Miguel Barros, the 1908 set Endless Night follows the […]Read More
Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel’s The White King feels like it is aiming somewhere between The Hunger Games and Stand By Me but this tiring and undercooked young adult fantasy falls short of either. The White King is based on the novel of the same name by Hungarian author György Dragomán. Set in a dystopian […]Read More
Jamie M. Dagg‘s first time feature as both writer and director, River, shows promise of great things from the filmmaker. River is a naturalistic thriller which makes the most of its gorgeous Laos setting resulting in an original and aesthetically pleasing piece. John Lake (Rossif Sutherland) is a doctor who works in South Laos for […]Read More
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