Posts Tagged ‘EIFF 2011’

2011 – That was the year that was

2011 – That was the year that was
In an attempt to provide an even better overview of the preceding 12 months than I did last year I have enlisted the help of a website that lists every single UK cinema release by date and have tried to check any releases that were moved around or failed to appear. This is an attempt [...]
December 29th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

The Guard (2011)

The Guard (2011)
The Guard is a lads movie. A Guy film par excellence. Dark, engaging, facetious, profane. Striking a chord with men who like their heroes hard boiled, self deprecating, hedonistic but above all authentic. The kind of film that evokes the feeling one gets taking his private pleasures, one that  opens...
July 18th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

EIFF 2011 – An Overview

EIFF 2011 – An Overview
So that’s it then. The credits have rolled, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief and cinema staff in Edinburgh can stop being irritated by a swarm of people turning up at free screening after free screening to try and catch “the next big thing”. EIFF 2011 was a strange beast. A lot...
June 28th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

A Better Life (2011)

A Better Life (2011)
Chris Weitz is an interesting guy, a director who seems to deliberately make career choices that you would never predict. From the man who helped with American Pie and gave us the brilliant About A Boy we’ve had movies such as The Golden Compass and New Moon (an instalment of the Twilight franchise)...
June 27th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Rabies (2010)

Rabies (2010)
An enjoyable little (and first, apparently) horror movie from Israel, Rabies may not quite do enough to be deemed truly great but it tries hard and has an excellent final 20 minutes or so that makes up for some early meandering. Oh, and it doesn’t really feature anyone foaming at the mouth so don’t...
June 27th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Oliver Sherman (2011)

Oliver Sherman (2011)
A film pretty much designed to be described by the word “brooding”, Oliver Sherman is a quietly impressive movie with numerous moments that make the viewer tense and uneasy, it’s the cinematic equivalent of walking beneath a major lightning storm and expecting to be hit. Garret Dillahunt is Sherman...
June 27th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Jitters (2010)

Jitters (2010)
Marketed and recommended to people as an Icelandic Skins, Jitters plays out quite like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . an Icelandic Skins. Young Gabriel returns from his trip to Manchester and rejoins his group of close friends. They all have [...]
June 26th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Caller (2011)

The Caller (2011)
When you look at the main ingredients of The Caller you start to get a sense of trepidation. The leads are played by a woman well-known to Twilight fans and a man well-known to True Blood fans, it centres around that classic mystery phone call scenario and it was expanded and developed from a short [...]
June 26th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Stormhouse (2011)

Stormhouse (2011)
This British horror set on a military base tries to do something a little bit different within the horror genre but ends up falling back on the same old tricks and scares, which is a shame but doesn’t make the thing unwatchable. It’s 2002 and Stormhouse is a secret military building where, deep underground,...
June 25th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Meet Monica Velour (2010)

Meet Monica Velour (2010)
Nicely blending a light version of Napoleon Dynamite’s quirkiness with elements of The Girl Next Door (the comedy film, not the movie based on the harrowing Jack Ketchum story) and a reverse-gendered Lost In Translation, Meet Monica Velour never establishes itself as any kind of modern classic but...
June 25th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
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