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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…
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Kill (2023) EIFF Review
Kill (2023)Director: Rodger GriffithsScreenwriter: Rodger GriffithsStarring: Brian Vernel, Daniel Portman, Calum Ross, Paul Higgins Having its world premiere at the 2023 edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), Rodger Griffiths’ Kill marks the feature film debut for the director. Loosely based on his 2017 short film Take The Shot, Kill asks the question of…
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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023) Review
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)Director: Sammi CohenScreenwriters: Alison PeckStarring: Adam Sandler, Idina Menzel, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Samantha Lorraine, Dylan Hoffman, Sarah Sherman The last time Idina Menzel and Adam Sandler tried to raise a good, Jewish family together, Sandler ended up in the trunk of a loan shark’s car…
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Femme (2023) EIFF Review
Femme (2023)Directors: Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon PingScreenwriters: Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon PingStarring: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, George MacKay Joining the ever-growing list of short films that were adapted into feature length movies is Femme, the feature length directorial debut of directing duo Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping. Taking an original concept from a…
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Past Lives (2023) EIFF Review
Past Lives (2023)Director: Celine SongScreenwriter: Celine SongStarring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro Two near-identical frames. One of a woman on the edge of the right hand side, sitting at a desk looking down into the lens of her laptop webcam. Another of a man on the edge of the left hand side, sitting at…
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (2023) EIFF Review
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2023)Director: Hope Dickson LeachScreenwriters: Hope Dickson Leach, Vlad ButuceaStarring: Lorn MacDonald, Henry Pettigrew, David Hayman “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”, one of the most famous pieces of literature ever written and well over one hundred years old, has been reproduced, adapted and…
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Passages (2023) EIFF Review
Passages (2023)Director: Ira SachsScreenwriter: Mauricio Zacharias, Ira SachsStarring: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos First shown to the world at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the latest feature from Little Men (2016) and Frankie (2019) director Ira Sachs, Passages, has been one of the most anticipated releases of 2023. Having received its UK premiere at…
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‘Blade’ at 25 – Review
Blade (1998)Director: Stephen NorringtonScreenwriter: David S. GoyerStarring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N’Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Kier, Sanaa Lathan, Arly Jover People only seem to have appreciated in hindsight just how revolutionary a film Blade was. A quarter of a century later, it has become much clearer just how much this vampire action…
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The Communion Girl (2022) Review
The Communion Girl (2022)Director: Victor GarciaScreenwriter: Guillem CluaStarring: Carla Champra, Aina Quiñonez, Marc Soler, Carlos Oviedo, Olimpia Roch, Maria Molins The Communion Girl is now streaming on Shudder. All the way from Spain. Though it could have come from the USA, in the 1980s, on something direct-to-video, because when all is said and done there’s…