EIFF 2021 Review: Pig ★★★★
Fewer actors have as an erratic a filmography as a latter day Nicolas Cage who
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EIFF 2021 Review: Martyr’s Lane ★★★
Writer-director Ruth Platt brings Martyr’s Lane to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The feature toys
EIFF 2021 Review: Europa ★★★★
Haider Rashid packs an unrelenting intensity into seventy-two minutes in the thrilling and emotionally harrowing
Edfilmfest 2020 Review: A White, White Day (Hvítur, hvítur dagur)
Screening as part of EdFilmFest @ Home, Icelandic slow-burn thriller A White, White Day (Hvítur,
EdFilmFest 2020 Review: Saint Frances
Alex Thompson directs Saint Frances, an impressive showcase for writer and lead actress Kelly O’Sullivan.
EdFilmFest 2020 Review: Fanny Lye Deliver’d
Continuing to follow the trend of contemporary folk horror explored in the likes of A
EIFF and Curzon Announce ‘Edfilmfest at Home’
Whilst it was undeniably a sensible decision, the cancellation of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
EIFF19 Review: Before You Know It
Hannah Pearl Utt co-writes, stars in and directs Before You Know It, a charmingly offbeat
EIFF Review: I See You
Helen Hunt makes a rare foray into genre cinema with I See You from director
EIFF19 Review: Gwen
William McGregor’s Gwen is a staggeringly impressive debut which delivers nerve-shredding Gothic dread centring on
EIFF19 Review: She’s Missing
Irish writer-director Alexandra McGuinness takes us on a dreamy mystery through rural New Mexico in
EIFF19 Review: Aren’t You Happy?
German indie Aren’t You Happy? comes from writer-director Susanne Heinrich who puts contemporary womanhood under
EIFF19 Review: Living is Easy With Eyes Closed
Taking its title from The Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever, Living is Easy With Eyes
EIFF19 Review: The Bride (La novia)
Visceral Spanish drama The Bride plays as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Once
EIFF19 Review: The Dead Don’t Die
Jim Jarmusch successfully took on vampire mythology in Only Lovers Left Alive – a
EIFF19 Review: The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant)
Bruno Ganz takes one of his final supporting roles in The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant) an
EIFF19 Review: Aniara
Hard-hitting Swedish space opera Aniara delivers nihilistic horror as it explores the breakdown of societal
EIFF19 Review: Darlin’
Lucky McKee’s 2011 Jack Ketchum adaptation, The Woman, may not strike you as a film
EIFF19 Review: Strange But True
Amy Ryan leads a cast of familiar faces in Strange But True, a thriller that
EIFF18 Review: Piercing
After the utterly devastating horror of The Eyes of My Mother, filmmaker Nicolas Pesce turns
EIFF18 Review: Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Tiffany Bartok directs Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story, a comprehensive glimpse into the
EIFF18 Review: Solis
Playing out like Gravity on a budget, Solis, joins a slew of space survival films,
EIFF18 Review: Songbird
Cobie Smulders leads Songbird, a British indie comedy from writer-director Jamie Adams. The actress shines
EIFF18 Review: Locating Silver Lake
Los Angeles is the setting for Locating Silver Lake, a film that examines the concepts
EIFF18 Review: Swinging Safari (Flammable Children)
Seventies excess and debauchery are on the table for Stephan Elliott’s latest Ausploitation comedy, Flammable