Category: Review
EIFF Exclusive Review: Carmilla
There are times where you attend film festivals and enter a screening totally unprepared for the film that you end up watching. Only to stumble…
EIFF Exclusive Review: The Black Forest
With a title like The Black Forest, you may be expecting this review to be on your standard run-of-the-mill low budget horror film. Instead, Ruth…
Review: Knife+Heart
Knife+Heart is the second Giallo throwback released in as many weeks, following Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, such is the state of the art house in…
Review: Article 15
On the surface, Article 15 is a straightforward – though very carefully constructed – police procedural film, set in contemporary India. It is not as simple as…
Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
In Far From Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is suffering from his own version of superhero fatigue. He’s tired of the explosions, bad guys, and…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Body at Brighton Rock
Body at Brighton Rock is a horror film. However, it’s not a very well executed one. There are a lot of jump scares in all…
EIFF Exclusive Review: We Have Always Lived In The Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is widely regarded as Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece. Although she is probably best known for her work, The Haunting…
EIFF Exclusive Review: The Vast Of Night
In 1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch. At least, that’s what the official report stated. Whether or not there…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Samurai Marathon
Samurai Marathon by Bernard Rose delivers exactly what it promises in the title. There is indeed a marathon in the film in which the participants…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Love Type D
I shall start this review off with a confession, I have never really been a fan of the rom-com genre. Often I find these films…
‘In Fabric’ Review: Suits You!
In Fabric is the latest film from Peter Strickland, and depending on what you’ve seen of his before, you might think you know what to expect….
EIFF Exclusive Review: I See You
At first, Adam Randall’s I See You is a creepy little psychological horror that feels on the cusp of becoming something close to Hereditary. Then,…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Hurt by Paradise
Greta Bellamacina may be the British answer to Greta Gerwig. There are certainly very many similarities between Bellmacina’s debut feature Hurt by Paradise and the…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Extreme Job
I will get the chicken puns out of the way… Extreme Job is clucking amazing. This is an egg-cellent film. You’re going to want to…