Cars 2
By Thom Atkinson. Published 20 July 2011
The first lap around the track for the Pixar vehicle Cars was, perhaps, the only weak link in an otherwise masterful run of features from the multi-award winning animators. Whether...
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Horrible Bosses
By Jamie Dunn. Published 18 July 2011Horrible Bosses offers a dastardly scenario — what if you could get away with murdering that obnoxious superior who makes your daily grind a misery? Three friends, Nick (Bateman), Dale...
EIFF 2011: Bobby Fischer Against the World
By David McGinty. Published 11 July 2011Recounting the life of the revered American chess master famed for his strange behaviour and seemingly unmatched ability, Bobby Fischer Against the World centres around the idiosyncratic self-taught Brooklynite's Cold...
Hobo with a Shotgun
By Becky Bartlett. Published 11 July 2011With a title like Hobo with a Shotgun, this film has a lot to live up to – and Jason Eisener's exploitation homage doesn't disappoint. Ageing cult star Rutger Hauer...
Country Strong
By Keir Roper-Caldbeck. Published 11 July 2011You know you're getting older when the starlets of your youth start to appear as alcoholic country music stars in terminal decline. But the mung bean munching Paltrow surely makes...
Cell 211
By Chris Buckle. Published 11 July 2011In a film full of lobe-searing scenes, Cell 211's opening – in which a tormented prisoner improvises a blade from a cigarette butt and opens his arteries – burns itself in the...
The Tree of Life
By Philip Concannon. Published 04 July 2011Simultaneously the most ambitious and intimate work of Terrence Malick's career, The Tree of Life is a film unlike any other in recent American cinema. At the film’s centre is...
The Kingdom
By Scotty McKellar. Published 28 June 2011Long before his bout of foot-in-mouth disease at Cannes, Danish auteur Lars Von Trier spooked everyone with a shamelessly weird miniseries set in a modern day hospital that becomes a...
Fair Game
By Nicola Balkind. Published 27 June 2011Fair Game brings the real-life story of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the big screen. Naomi Watts stars as the spy with Sean Penn as her retired diplomat husband, Joe...
EIFF 2011: Ghosted
By Chris Fyvie. Published 24 June 2011Prison drama Ghosted sees sinister head-honcho jailbird Clay (Craig Parkinson) and quiet, just-want-to-do-my-time-guv con Jack (John Lynch) vie for the soul of the new kid on the wing, Paul...
Never Let Me Go
By Nicola Balkind. Published 21 June 2011Clad in grey clothes and with golden complexions, Hailsham students are special creatures. Raised to fulfil a very specific biological purpose, they are empty vessels propelled from school, through adolescence,...
Countdown to Zero
By Philip Concannon. Published 21 June 2011There's a key scene in Countdown to Zero that shows members of the public being asked how many nuclear weapons currently exist in the world. A few make wild guesses...
Bridesmaids
By Jamie Dunn. Published 20 June 2011Recent wedding comedies (Bride Wars, 27 Dresses) have been about as enjoyable as stepping on an upturned plug, but Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids emphatically breaks this cycle by choosing comedy chops...
Floodtide
By Keir Roper-Caldbeck. Published 20 June 2011David (Gordon Jackson) is the son of a farmer who dreams of building ships on the Clyde. Against his father's wishes he takes a job in the shipyards and begins...
Robinson In Ruins
By Keir Roper-Caldbeck. Published 20 June 2011Psychogeography, the form of intellectual rambling practised by writers like Iain Sinclair and Will Self, has had some prominence in recent years. At its best it has provided suggestive and...
The Great White Silence
By Chris Buckle. Published 17 June 2011When an earlier cut of Herbert G. Ponting’s remarkable record of the British Antarctic Expedition was screened for George VI in 1914, the king declared everyone should see it so...
Potiche
By Jamie Dunn. Published 17 June 2011Potcihe is a perfume scented doodle, as fluffy and pretty as candyfloss, with as little substance. Set in 1977, Deneuve plays the bourgeois trophy wife of a draconian factory tycoon who...
The Messenger
By Chris Fyvie. Published 13 June 2011Recently returned from Iraq, Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) is ordered to see out the remaining three months of his commission within the Army’s Casualty Notification Unit. Learning the...
Stake Land
By Scott McKellar. Published 13 June 2011The darling of Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn horror festival, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land is well worth hunting down. A young boy, Martin (Connor Paolo), and a grizzled drifter, known only...
Howl
By Scott McKellar. Published 10 June 2011Allen Ginsberg was the fiery voice of a whole generation of disaffected American intellectuals and never more so than in his first published work, the poem Howl. Epstein and Friedman's...
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