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…
EIFF 2019
Film Review – Asterix :The Secret Of The Magic Potion (2018)
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,…
Film Review – UglyDolls (2019)
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…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Before You Know It (2019)
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,…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – I See You (2019)
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…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Gwen (2019)
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…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – She’s Missing (2019)
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…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Aren’t You Happy (Das melancholische Madchen)
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…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (2013)
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…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Bride (La novia)
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…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
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…
Mrs Lowry & Son UK Trailer Highlights Life Of An Iconic Artist And His Mother
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…
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Strange But True (2019)
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…
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Farming Wins At Edinburgh Film Festival
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…
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