Tag: EIFF

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…