EIFF 2019 Review – Liberté: A Call to Spy – “A remarkable film”
Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher Starring Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache, Rossif Sutherland, Andrew Richardson...
Read MoreReview: Toy Story 4 – “Funny and excitingly weird”
The gang of sentient playthings that everyone loves are back after a nine-year hiatus that has still not been long enough to get over the...
Read MoreSpielBLOG – Twilight Zone: The Movie – A Steven Spielberg Retrospective
In the 1980s, the TV spin-off movie was relatively rare. Star Trek: The Motion Picture and its sequel The Wrath of Khan had been...
Read MoreEIFF 2019 Review – Memory: The Origins of Alien – “An exploration of the myriad of people involved in the gestation of this now-iconic film”
Hard to believe, but here we are in the last third of June and that means Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) time. My first...
Read MoreReview: We The Animals – “Cinematic art at its purest”
There couldn’t have been a better time to release We The Animals than Pride month. The world needs more queer stories that feel relatable...
Read MoreReview – Men In Black: International – “Enjoyable but forgettable”
Men In Black. I always like the concept of that shadowy figure who would turn up after a UFO sighting and menacingly tell the witness to...
Read MoreReview – X-Men: Dark Phoenix – “Fails to soar, but isn’t a car crash either”
I refute your hypothesis that X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX is a car crash. The opening scene, with an actual car crash? Sure. But in amongst the...
Read MoreLittle Did You Know: LFF cracks open actor, screenwriter and film critic David McGillivray’s autobiography
Referred to variously as “the Truffaut of smut” and “a prolific hack writer”, David McGillivray started out reviewing movies for the BFI...
Read MoreReview: Ma – “Shocks and surprises and always catches you off-guard”
Written by Scotty Landes (Workaholics) and directed by Tate Taylor (Winter’s Bone), Ma stars Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water),...
Read MoreReview: Late Night – “A truly delightful piece of entertainment”
In Late Night, Emma Thompson plays Katherine Newbury, the only female late night TV show host working in the US. Katherine is worried...
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