Review: Maurice -“Beautifully told love story”
For many years Maurice was an overlooked entry in the Merchant Ivory canon. Consistently ignored in favour of films like A Room with a...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review – Pacific Rim: Uprising – “Check your brain at the door, and just sit back and watch giant robots and monsters destroy cities”
There was little chance that I wasn’t going to like the original Pacific Rim. Giant robots versus giant monsters? All directed...
Read MoreReview: Dogged – “Delightfully disturbing”
We’ve had plenty of rural horror over the year, but there is a less frequently visited sub-genre of the rural horror, the folk...
Read MoreReview: The First Purge – “The best Purge yet”
The First Purge is the fourth entry in Blumhouse’s popular politically charged action-horror franchise, and the first to not be...
Read MoreTech Review: Optoma HD143X Projector
Optoma very kindly sent over the HD143X Projector for me to check out and I have to say, I was very impressed. It is a smaller size and a...
Read MoreEIFF Review: Anna and the Apocalypse – “Has future cult film written all over it”
High school. Zombies. Hard to tell sometimes which is more horrific. Add Christmas concert, overbearingly strict new headmaster, boyfriend...
Read MoreReview – Sicario 2: Soldado – “A simplified yet slick sequel”
The follow-up to Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, Sicario 2: Soldado is an Emily Blunt-less sequel that also sees the director’s chair now...
Read MoreEIFF Review: McLaren Animation screenings – Facing It, Inanimate, Double Portrait and more
I always make a special point of attending the two McLaren short animation strands at the Edinburgh International Film Festival each year....
Read MoreEIFF Review: Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out – “Fun, funny, silly, sweet, touching, surreal and totally charming”
I don’t know Bert Scholiers or the starts of his Belgian film, but sometimes I just get a vibe from a film or book and know I am...
Read MoreEIFF Review: The Most Assassinated Woman in the World – “Shot in a beautifully sensual manner”
Another evening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF)and another intriguing film, this time from French director Franck...
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