Edinburgh 2015: ‘Big Gold Dream’ review
★★★☆☆ All set to find an appreciative audience on BBC Four’s long-running Storyville strand, Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream (2015) –...
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2 July 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Synonyms review
★★★★☆ Golden Bear-winning cultural assimilation drama Synonyms is expertly handled by its director Nadav Lapid. That of relocating, whether it be by city, country...
1 July 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 feature film from Elfar Adalsteins....
29 June 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Schemers review
★★★☆☆ Filmed in and around Scotland’s fourth largest city Dundee, Schemers – receiving its World Premiere at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival –...
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Edinburgh 2015: ‘Beyond the Lights’ review
★★★☆☆ Denied a theatrical release, Gina Price-Blythewood’s Beyond the Lights (2014) instead receives its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival before landing on...
Edinburgh 2015: ‘Welcome to Me’ review
★★★★☆ Mental health is a tricky topic to tackle sensitively in film, no less so when that particular film is a comedy. Shira Piven’s...
Edinburgh 2015: ‘The Hallow’ review
★★★☆☆ Corin Hardy’s third feature The Hallow (2015) – screening in the Night Moves strand of this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival – is an...
Edinburgh 2015: ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’ review
★★★★☆ Fantasy becomes near unbelievable reality in Sundance hit The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s astonishing third feature film which sees...
Edinburgh 2015: ‘The Closer We Get’ review
★★★☆☆ Every family is unique and each one has its own personal stories to tell. Scottish-born artist and filmmaker Karen Guthrie puts her own...
Edinburgh 2015: Picks of the programme
The 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (17-28 June) gets underway this week with the World Première of actor Robert Carlyle’s directorial debut, The Legend...
Edinburgh 2014: ‘What Now? Remind Me’ review
★★★★☆ Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize last year (amongst a host of other accolades), 2013’s What Now? Remind Me (E...
