Deviance :: Film :: Feature 26 Sep 2008
Jenni Cruickshank: A lot of debut writer/directors might find it tricky doing just one new job - what made you decide to take on acting and producing too? Marianna Palka: Originally, I wrote it to be in it – I wanted to be both writer and actress. Then my friend ...
Film :: Review 11 Aug 2008
Laura Smith: A wonderfully breezy, champagne cocktail of an old-fashioned comedy, that fizzes away with all the madcap, feel-good fun of a 1930s screwball classic, Miss Pettigrew is largely buoyed by the charms of a wigglesome, wide-eyed Amy Adams, doing her ditzy ...
Film :: Review 31 Jul 2008
Laura Smith: A tough, uncompromising look at police corruption and street crime in the drug saturated favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Elite Squad blasts across the screen with both barrels, blending the sweaty, frenetic, visual flamboyance of co-writer Brá...
Film :: Review 28 Jul 2008
Paul Greenwood: On 7 August, 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes walking on a high wire between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Centre. Though he was arrested on completion, all charges were dropped and he quickly became celebrated througho...
Film :: Feature 24 Jul 2008
Paul Greenwood: How did you first hear about Philippe and how did you come to be involved in making the film? Everyone in New York knows about it in some shape or form, it’s one of those folk memories that people have. I've lived there for 14 years and it&rsquo...
Film :: Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature :: Preview 23 Jul 2008
Jaco Justice: Move over Cannes, Edinburgh and Co - prepare to have the glam replaced by jam. In August the North East town of Nairn hosts a new film festival, inspired by childhood big-screen epiphanies, over eight and a half magical days celebrating the romanticism...
Fashion :: Film :: Review 14 Jul 2008
Lindsay West: Billed as somewhere in the ballpark of a Russian Federate Ugly Betty - a Slavic cousin, perhaps, of The Devil Wears Prada - Gloss: The Directors' Cut was supposed to be a concession to the fashion-conscious art cinema type. A chance, it appeared, to mu...
Film :: Review 03 Jul 2008
Paul Greenwood: Eternal supporting player Richard Jenkins revels in a rare starring role in The Visitor as Walter, a middle aged college professor who’s never really gotten over the death of his wife. On a trip to New York on business, he finds a young African c...
Film :: Review 01 Jul 2008
Paul Greenwood: You could be forgiven for thinking that if you’ve seen What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, you’ve seen The Black Balloon. With its tale of a resentful teen constantly needing to cope with the care of his autistic brother, The Black Balloon w...
Deviance :: Film :: Review 27 Jun 2008
Nine: A harrowing look at child prostitution, the documentary Very Young Girls follows Rachel Lloyd and her staff at GEMS in New York, assisting girls who were introduced to 'the life' at an average age of thirteen. The film gives plenty of insight into the ...
Film :: Heads Up :: Feature :: News 25 Jun 2008
Jonathan Grant, Lucy Keen: Flashy. Fake. Distant. Three things we, as young reporters and fresh eyes on the world premiere of The Edge of Love starring Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys, definitely expected. One of these expectations was soon proved wrong when we m...
Film :: Music :: Live Review 23 Jun 2008
Finbarr Bermingham: In an interview with The Skinny earlier this year, British Sea Power's lead singer Yan spoke of his desire to break the mould and mundaneness of the standard rock band format that has ruled Britannia for the last decade. His frustration with this lack ...
Film :: Review 20 Jun 2008
Jenni Cruickshank: Most guys would love to have a girlfriend who watches porn – it means she’s really in-tune with her sexuality and pretty much gasping for it 24/7, right? Not necessarily... Marianna Palka’s feature debut Good Dick explores the notion ...
Laura Smith: Building a sense of genuine foreboding from the off, Olly Blackburn’s debut film sees three 'up-fer-it' Leeds lasses meet a group of posh boys working on board a luxury yacht and agree to join them for some holiday hedonism at sea. As horror film...
Paul Greenwood: The Appeared is exactly the kind of horror rubbish the Japanese and Koreans have been churning out for years – expect an American remake any day now. A Spanish brother and sister travel to Argentina to settle the affairs of their dying father and...
Paul Greenwood: A Spanish couple, recently moved in to a secluded new home, go about their business until visions of a topless girl in the trees leads husband Hector to go exploring whereupon, as you do, he enters a time machine and goes back a couple of hours. In cla...
Film :: Review 19 Jun 2008
Jenni Cruickshank: As any world-weary ex-student will tell you, travelling is generally considered to be A Good Thing; you meet new people, discover new places and can even end up 'finding yourself'. This is certainly the case for straight-talking Aussie rugby coach Nick...
Film :: Review 13 Jun 2008
Paul Greenwood: Based on the diaries of two real-life Russian immigrants, Bigga Than Ben follows Spiker (Chadov) and Cobakka (Barnes), as they come to London for what they think will be a better life. Early attempts to get rich through honest means come to little, for...
Heads Up :: News 12 Jun 2008
Dave Kerr: The Edinburgh International Film Festival gets set for something of a soft launch as Film Festival Under The Stars takes place tomorrow and Saturday night (that's the 13th and 14th of June, fact fans). Screening for your viewing pleasure will be a bou...
Film :: Review 10 Jun 2008
Jonathan Melville: Finally getting distribution after its UK premiere at the 2007 Edinburgh Film Festival, US Indie flick In Search of a Midnight Kiss is the third feature from writer/director Alex Holdridge. Shot on a tiny budget in just over three weeks, it’s the...
