Films don’t get much more personal than Farming. Writer/director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje puts his own story under the lights and gaze of the camera, let alone that of cinema audiences, to tackle a huge issue which is just as relevant today as it was when the story took place. How much of what we see on […]Read More
A bag as mixed as the one that holds the ingredients to Getafix’s coveted magic brew, this recent shunting of the beloved French comic from the page to the screen hits a few high(ish) notes, but also feels like a slightly diluted imitation of the great literary series. It looks like an Asterix comic, no […]Read More
You can forgive, or perhaps even grow to love, a movie that exists primarily to sell a truck load of kids’ toys, if it achieves, or at least strives to some greatness beyond its status as a very long advert. Chris Miller and Phil Lord’s first Lego movie certainly did that, as did Chris McKay’s […]Read More
Hannah Pearl Utt co-writes, stars in and directs Before You Know It, a charmingly offbeat tale of two adult sisters in New York. The project is co-written by Jen Tullock, who co-stars, alongside Mandy Patinkin, Judith Light and Alec Baldwin. Before You Know It follows Rachel (Utt) and Jackie (Tullock) who live with their formerly […]Read More
Helen Hunt makes a rare foray into genre cinema with I See You from director Adam Randall. I See You prides itself on a plethora of plot twists courtesy of Devon Graye’s genre-bending narrative. Detective Greg Harper (Jon Tenney) is entangled in the case of a ten year old missing boy in suburban USA, his […]Read More
William McGregor’s Gwen is a staggeringly impressive debut delivers nerve-shredding Gothic dread centring on a rural Welsh community in the late 19th century. Seventeen year old Gwen (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) lives on an isolated Welsh farm with her younger sister and troubled mother Elen (Maxine Peake). After witnessing a strange figure outside their cottage, events take […]Read More
Irish writer-director Alexandra McGuinness takes us on a dreamy mystery through rural New Mexico in the atmospheric drama, She’s Missing. Heidi’s (Lucy Fry) best friend Jane (Eiza Gonzalez), a casino bartender who dreams of being a rodeo queen, disappears. Heidi heads into the desert in search of her meeting a variety of lonely lost souls […]Read More
German indie Aren’t You Happy comes from writer-director Susanne Heinrich who puts contemporary womanhood under the microscope in a playful offbeat manner. Split into fifteen episodic chapters (Marie Rathscheck)’s ennui filled maiden tells us if this was a film about a melancholic girl we would watch her wander around, talk, have sex, and do nothing […]Read More
Taking its title from The Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever, Living is Easy With Eyes Closed plays the Edinburgh International Film Festival‘s retrospective Once Upon a Time in Spain. This 2013 film from David Trueba found success at the Goya Awards and at its best it’s a charming, sweet-natured albeit somewhat pedestrian road trip. In […]Read More
Visceral Spanish drama The Bride plays as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival‘s Once Upon a Time in Spain retrospective and provided festival-goers the chance to see a simmering piece of the country’s best cinema. Based on Federico García Lorca‘s 1932 play Blood Wedding, The Bride follows a traditional Spanish wedding of a Bride […]Read More
Jim Jarmusch successfully took on vampire mythology in Only Lovers Left Alive – a lush and lethargic exploration of the horror subgenre. He turns his attention to the world of zombies with the help of a range of A-List friends such as Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray in The Dead Don’t Die. The […]Read More
L.S. Lowry, was one of Britain’s most iconic artists. In Mrs Lowry & Son we see another side of his life, his relationship with his mother Elizabeth. Whom he lived until her death. Timothy Spall plays Lowry and Vanessa Redgrave his overbearing mother. This Sunday the film make its World Premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival. […]Read More
Amy Ryan leads a cast of familiar faces in Strange But True, a thriller that revels in taking viewers on escalating twists and turns which ultimately reach a level of outlandish Lifetime-style camp. Rowan Athale directs Eric Garcia‘s adaptation of John Searles‘ novel which never comes across quite a seriously as the creative team seem […]Read More
The longest running International film festival, Edinburgh has announced it’s 2019 Award winners. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s directorial debut Farming has scooped two awards including the festival’s top prize. The film was making it’s UK Premiere at the festival . What better accolade for the film winning prestigious Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film, which […]Read More
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