This awful film about the Princess of Wales feels like it was made for tacky US daytime TV, not the big screen says The Edge’s Film Editor Barnaby Walter
Life is hopeslesly tangled with fiction in this highly original offering from In Bruges director Martin McDonagh. Billed as a British crime comedy but more an exercise in self-referential meta-fiction, Seven Psychopaths follows Marty (Colin Farrell), a scriptwriter struggling to pen his big hit, a film of the same name. The ridiculous dognapping escapades of…
The Killing [Forbrydelsen] became something of sensation when it aired on BBC Four in 2010. Since then it has become part of a much larger phenomenon: an influx of quality crime television and fiction from Scandinavia. The British public have greedily consumed their tales of terrible crimes and strong detectives. The Killing features one of the…
Four British tourists stumble upon an eerily empty castle while on a travelling holiday. Because this is a horror film, they act in the stupidest way possible, and willingly venture into the castle and become the guests of the newly resurrected Count Dracula. Expect a lot of screaming and bright red blood gushing from people’s…
Some have described Weekend as the British answer to Before Sunrise, and to some extent they are right. This is a talky romance set over, yes, a weekend, where a one night stand turns into something resembling love. The strength of the film lies in the honesty of the performances by lead actors Tom Cullen…
Before I saw the film, friends had told me that Yann Martel’s novel, The Life of Pi, was unadaptable; that the plot just couldn’t be translated from book to movie. Yet Ang Lee took on the challenge, and against all odds it was a box office success. The plot centers around Pi a boy who…
Rush may not be the masterpiece some have claimed, but it’s still a terrific ride.
This was a film ahead of its time. It contains radical decisions in filmmaking and the story pushes aside the attitudes towards controversial topics of the time. Orson Welles contributed many things to the history of cinema, but this film is perhaps his potent contribution to the future of it. Beautifully presented in multiple editions in various…
Some argue that this is the perfect romantic film. If it isn’t, it certainly comes close. The story about a bar owner in Casablanca during World War II who comes face to face again with a lost love from the past has rightfully earned its place in people’s hearts. This simply divine Blu-ray steelbook has…
Bronwyn Scotland reckons we should all give poor old Ben Affleck a chance.
This new Mexican horror movie from Argentinian Adrián García Bogliano is an interesting, if not entirely successful, little shocker.
The world of Hollywood film distribution is a funny thing, and although the larger part of Christopher Nolan’s work is released by Warner Bros on both sides of the Atlantic, Insomnia is different. In the US it’s handled by Warners, but in the UK by Walt Disney Studios. Sadly, Disney have never released the film…
Grace and David travel to the country to visit their friends, brother and sister Marianne and Alex. They have known each other for a while and are staying over at one of the siblings’ house. Over the dinner, the conversation turns political. The social attitudes and issues of the day are raised, occasionally resulting in…
Paedophobic cinema has become a fairly classic staple of the horror genre. The Omen, The Exorcist and The Shining have all helped cultivate, or perhaps manipulate, our very potent fear of witnessing something so innocent display traces of evil. To some extent We Needto Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the novel by Lionel Shriver, is a horror story. First and foremost however, it…