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The 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival featured a film called My Name is Emily, by Simon Fitzmaurice. This year, It’s Not Yet Dark is billed as the story behind Fitzmaurice’s film. It both is and...

Appearing on screen above its English translation, the Swedish title of Amanda Kernell’s debut feature Sameblod might provoke some interesting thoughts in the minds of its English-speaking audiences. A film...

From the synopsis, Modern Life is Rubbish could be accused of rehashing High Fidelity, yet it more than justifies its existence. It’s a wonderfully evocative period drama of the past ten(ish) years, littered...

Paris Can Wait, the first foray into fiction from Eleanor Coppola (wife of Francis Ford), is at best a Woody Allen-esque Americans-do-Europe travelogue, and at worst a boring and indulgent piece of wealth...

“Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.” As part of the Focus on Poland strand, EIFF is screening Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal’s The Sun, The Sun Blinded Me. In one scene, a priest sits down to eat a...

Making his directorial debut with Cabin Fever in 2002, with a further array of torture porn quickly on the way through Hostels one and two, actor/producer/director Eli Roth freely continues his gore-laden...

Joanna Coates' feature debut centres realism in a place often found, yet often lost. Coates' uncluttered depiction of a polyamorous utopian society comfortably avoids falling into sexual fantasy, instead...

Adapted from the late Larry Brown’s novel of the same name, Joe commands exceedingly tight performances within a morally bereft universe. All aspects point to open-ended nihilism, as Joe’s modern wasteland...

Featuring near every children's tale trope, The House of Magic possesses little imagination beyond a slight fusion of Toy Story and Over the Hedge. Sassy chihuahuas emit crude one-liners, fat people fall...

Directed by both Simon Helberg and his (unfortunate) wife Jocelyn Towne, We'll Never Have Paris features Helberg's (cringingly) semi-autobiographical proposal story in what appears to be something akin to a...

Writer-director Jeff Baena's directorial and feature debut, Life After Beth, is equal parts tender satire and physical zom-com. Plaza and DeHaan deliver thoroughly accomplished performances, seamlessly...

Adapted for screen from John Lansdale's novel of the same name, Cold in July retains its free-flowing pulp heritage, with violence and retribution galore. What sets Mickle's latest apart, however, is just...

Antony Petrou's racism-fuelled drama concerning the tragic real-life case of Zahid Mabarek shifts focus from the victim, instead opting to centre in on just what drove his fellow inmate, Robert Stewart, to...

Set Fire to the Stars is what happens when performance and written word arrestingly compete for head billing. Goddard's feature debut boasts the full enormity of its inspired source (Dylan Thomas' 'Love In...

Writer-director Paul Harrill's feature debut offers higher understanding without the usual cost of condescension. Something, Anything gently indicts blindly-followed sociopolitical (bourgeois) ideals, while...