Tag: Edinburgh International Film Festival

Richie Adams, an American filmmaker best known for Indie features like Inventing Adam, makes his Scottish debut with an adaptation of John MacKay’s novel The…

Faceless is a powerful documentary on protest, freedom and democracy. It is a deafening cry against oppression and tyranny told through the perspective of ordinary…

I didn’t know what to expect when I sat down to watch Mad God, the new animated feature from Phil Tibbet. Whose special effects work…

Martyrs Lane is a gripping new horror film that captivates and mystifies consistently. Atmospheric, puzzling, and ultimately tragic, there is a delicacy to its craft…

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness”. These are the words echoed throughout Ryan Braund’s ambitious and visually captivating new feature…

Too often I come across the age-old question: What is the point of film critics? Every other month the debate as to whether we need…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…