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‘Prisoners’ at 10 – Review
Prisoners (2013)Director: Denis VilleneuveScreenwriter: Aaron GuzikowskiStarring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Paul Dano Denis Villeneuve’s taut and gripping 2013 thriller Prisoners follows several characters in the aftermath of any parent’s worst nightmare: child abduction. When two young girls go missing on Thanksgiving, desperate father Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman)…
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Elevator Game (2023) Review
Elevator Game (2023)Director: Rebekah McKendryScreenwriters: David Ian McKendry, Travis SeppalaStarring: Nazariy Demkowicz, Liam Stewart-Kanigan, Gino Anania, Megan Best, Alec Carlos, Verity Marks, Madison MacIsaac Urban legend horror movies have been a thing for a while now, including and going well beyond the Urban Legend franchise itself. Candyman (based on “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker) is…
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Bolan’s Shoes (2023) Review
Bolan’s Shoes (2023)Director: Ian Puleston-DaviesScreenwriter: Ian Puleston-DaviesStarring: Timothy Spall, Leanne Best, Mark Lewis Jones, Matthew Horne, Holli Dempsey, Andrew Lancel The legacy that musical artists possess years after their deaths is almost unfathomable, whether that be through their timeless music that evokes feelings of a better time or how they portray themselves to the masses…
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‘Steamboat Willie’ at 95 – Short Film Review
Steamboat Willie (1928)Directors: Ub Iwerks, Walt DisneyScreenwriters: Walt Disney, Ub IwerksStarring: Walt Disney, Charlotte Jamquie It all started with a rabbit. That’s right, around a year before Mickey, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit who, despite starring in dozens of shorts, was unceremoniously ditched in favour of another anthropomorphic animal character…
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El Conde (2023) Review
El Conde (2023)Director: Pablo LarraínScreenwriters: Guillermo Calderón, Pablo LarraínStarring: Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger, Stella Gonet Pablo Larraín’s newest film is a historical satire imagining the Chilean Dictator, Augusto Pinochet (Jaime Vadell), as a bloodsucking vampire. El Conde is aging and finally ready to die after 250 years plaguing the planet, doing…
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A Haunting in Venice (2023) Review
A Haunting in Venice (2023)Director: Kenneth BranaghScreenwriter: Michael GreenStarring: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Camille Cottin, Kelly Reiley, Jude Hill, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Emma Laird, Kyle Allen Following two previous adaptations of Agatha Christie’s beloved Poirot novels, featuring the eponymous detective, you’d think there’d be a bit of a break. There’s no slowing down this…
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‘The Age of Innocence’ at 30 – Review
The Age of Innocence (1993)Director: Martin ScorseseScreenwriters: Jay Cook, Martin ScorseseStarring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder Martin Scorsese is a prolific filmmaker, known for making movies infused with violence and passion, filled with characters who live outside of the law and the rules of society. From classic gangster pictures like Goodfellas to movies about…
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Scrapper (2023) Review
Scrapper (2023)Director: Charlotte ReganScreenwriter: Charlotte ReganStarring: Lola Campbell, Harris Dickson, Alin Uzun, Laura Alkman, Ambreen Razia In the middle of a Venn diagram that has circles for “debut feature”, “written and directed by a woman named Charlotte” and “explores parental trauma through the perspective of a young daughter”, there are two films that have both…
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Cobweb (2023) Review
Cobweb (2023)Director: Samuel BodinScreenwriter: Chris Thomas DevlinStarring: Lizzy Caplan, Anthony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman, Woody Norman A young boy of eight (Peter, played by Woody Norman) goes to school in the town of Holdenfield. It’s a week before Halloween (and we’re sure that the place being called Holdenfield is entirely coincidental to this Halloween timing. They’d…
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Fremont (2023) EIFF Review
Fremont (2023)Director: Babak JalaliScreenwriters: Babak Jalali, Carolina CavalliStarring: Anaita Wali Zada, Gregg Turkington, Jeremy Allen White The closing gala of the 76th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), Fremont, marks the end of what has been a tumultuous year for not just the film festival but film in Edinburgh as a whole. Given last year’s announcement…