Tag: Review
EIFF Exclusive Review: What She Said – The Art of Pauline Kael
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…
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: 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: 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…
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…
Review: The Mist (2007)
Every classic horror film has that scene. The scene that defines the experience for a first-time viewer, the scene friends all talk about after it…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: Michael Clayton
In most films, we’re only aware of the last shot in retrospect. The screen cuts to black, and only then do we process after the…
Ratatouille Movie Review: It’s Delicious!!
In one of the most memorable sequences of Ratatouille,one of the film’s characters, Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole), who is one of Paris’s most influential food…
