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13/07/2019
Film Review: Midsommar
★★★★☆ Returning from last year’s debut feature, Hereditary, writer-director Ari Aster leaves demonic possession behind in favour of festival-folk-horror in Midsommar. SoakedContinue Reading
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12/07/2019
Film Review: The Dead Don’t Die
★★★★☆ Following 2013’s Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch returns to the realm of the undead with shuffling zombie hordesContinue Reading
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12/07/2019
Film Review: Vita and Virginia
★★☆☆☆ Compared to many authors, Virginia Woolf has fared relatively well on screen. Eileen Atkins’ one-woman stage show, A RoomContinue Reading
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12/07/2019
Interview: Alison Klayman, dir. The Brink
Alison Klayman made her name as a film-maker with 2012’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a close study of the reveredContinue Reading
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12/07/2019
Film Review: The Brink
★★★★★ In Alison Klayman’s new political documentary The Brink, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is accompanied around theContinue Reading
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12/07/2019
Film Review: Jaws
★★★★★ Jaws didn’t just reel in millions at the global box office, it heralded the summer blockbuster era and turnedContinue Reading
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11/07/2019
Film Review: Only You
★★★☆☆ IVF remains a rarely discussed topic in cinema, even though millions of people go through it each year, whichContinue Reading
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02/07/2019
Edinburgh 2019: Synonyms review
★★★★☆ Golden Bear-winning cultural assimilation drama Synonyms is expertly handled by its director Nadav Lapid. That of relocating, whether itContinue Reading
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02/07/2019
Edinburgh 2019: Mrs Lowry & Son review
★★☆☆☆ Five years after portraying J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh’s award-winning biographical drama Mr Turner, Timothy Spall takes on theContinue Reading
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02/07/2019
Edinburgh 2019: Astronaut review
★★★☆☆ Richard Dreyfuss stars in Astronaut, Shelagh McLeod feature film debut, in which she also doubles up as screenwriter. It’sContinue Reading
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01/07/2019
Film Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home
★★★☆☆ Peter Parker (Tom Holland), best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon), and sardonic classmate MJ (Zendaya) are all coming to termsContinue Reading
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01/07/2019
Which of these TV and film characters could afford to pay off their homes?
Have you ever stopped to wonder whether the fictional characters from your favourite TV shows and films (take Tony Soprano,Continue Reading
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01/07/2019
Edinburgh 2019: End of Sentence review
★★★☆☆ The strained relationship between a father and his son is tenderly observed in End of Sentence, the debut featureContinue Reading
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29/06/2019
Edinburgh 2019: Schemers review
★★★☆☆ Filmed in and around Scotland’s fourth largest city Dundee, Schemers – receiving its World Premiere at this year’s EdinburghContinue Reading
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28/06/2019
Interview: Andrew Bujalkski, dir. Support the Girls
Mumblecore legend Andrew Bujalski’s latest film, Support the Girls, headed by the singularly brilliant Regina Hall, tells the story of a groupContinue Reading