Tag: EdFilmFest
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: Justine
This year’s Edinburgh Film Festival saw 43% of the films that made up the festival’s program being directed by a female filmmaker. While not every…
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…
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: Alice
On paper, Josephine Mackerras’ Alice sounds like a film we’ve all seen before. The story of a mild-mannered housewife/mother who becomes a high-end escort in…
