Fresh from winning the top award for a British film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival at the weekend, comes the new trailer for Andrew Haigh’s (Looking, Weekend) spectacular 45 Years. The film, which is adapted from David Constantine’s short…
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EIFF 2015 Review – Manglehorn (2014)
Fresh from the excellent Nicolas Cage starring Joe, writer-director David Gordon Green provides a similarly triumphant vehicle for Al Pacino in Manglehorn. This tale of self-realisation is filled with poetic visual clout, complex emotion,…
EIFF 2015 Review – Learning to Drive (2014)
It seems that no one taught director Isabel Coixet and writer Sarah Kernochan to drive any further than the middle of the road, as their collaboration, Learning to Drive, is exactly that. It’s inoffensively pleasant…
EIFF 2015 Review – Redeemer (Redentor) (2014)
Chilean martial arts action/western Redentor (aka Redeemer) has its sights set on capturing the pulpy ultra-violent tone of the likes of Drive, Machete, and Django Unchained, but never comes close to these greats in terms of…
Sundance 2015 Review – The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
Based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloekner, writer-director Marienne Heller‘s The Diary of a Teenage Girl feels like an energetic love-letter to the crossroads between female adolescence and womanhood. Minnie (Bel Powley), a teenage…