Disney and Pixar have set the bar so high with their animated offerings, it’s hard to be very enthusiastic about a film that is just good, rather than extraordinary, but I shall try my best. This is a sweet little picture set in glorious Scotland about a young Princess who doesn’t want to be forced…
Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, two documentary filmmakers from New York, decided in 2010 to make a film charting the burgeoning friendship between Ariel’s brother, Yaniv, and Abby, an eight-year-old artist from Michigan who contacted him through Facebook after she paints a version of a photograph he took. Yaniv begins a relationship with the girl’s…
Meet Roger Brown. Roger is a highly successful recruiter, or headhunter, and it is fair to say that he’s a bit of a scoundrel. He takes great pleasure belittling and undermining those at work whilst operating outside of his legal profession as an efficient art thief. He uses this money to pay for his extravagant…
The Edge were lucky enough to be part of a select group of individuals across the country to attend a viewing of Hope Springs a month before its release in the UK and all we can say is this is one for the masses with 3 big names in film coming together to portray the…
The previous Bourne film, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, was superb. This fourth instalment may even be a little bit better. Matt Damon’s character occupies an off-screen role, and Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is brought to the foreground. Similar to Jason Bourne, Cross is the product of a scientific military programme to produce the perfect agents through…
With the news that the eagerly anticipated Hobbit films were to become three, and a second trilogy for Peter Jackson, came no real surprise. The rumour had been floating around for a while – Peter Jackson had to merely confirm this as the case, in a statement released on Facebook on July 30th. This was…
Film director Tony Scott has died at the age of 68 in Los Angeles after jumping off a bridge. At the time of writing, his death is believed to be a suicide. Tony Scott was one of Hollywood’s biggest directors, and was responsible for modern classics such as Top Gun, Crimson Tide, and True Romance,…
Steamy, weird and gorgeously shot, this is an admirable attempt to bring Matthew Lewis’s classic 18th century gothic novel to the big screen. It’s a shame so few people in the UK saw it in cinemas, as there is much to enjoy here from a cinematic point of view. Director Dominic Moll stages everything so…
Barnaby Walter takes a look at brutal horror films A Serbian Film (2010) and Kill List (2011).
Let’s get this straight: Lockout is Escape From New York in space, minus almost everything that made that film a classic. Snow (Guy Pearce) is framed for the murder of an undercover agent (YAWN) and is due to be sent to orbital space-prison and floating disaster waiting to happen ‘MS One’. Meanwhile, the President’s daughter…
Ted is the first foray into feature length, live-action filmmaking of Family Guy creator and mastermind Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane’s animated TV shows have divided opinion and Ted may do the same. Like its eponymous character, the film is flawed, lewd, crude and may be a little offensive to some but is also one of the funniest films…
To appreciate the light, one has to sample the dark, and unfortunately for me this means watching films as terrible as Amusement. It’s boring rubbish and pointlessly horrid. Unsurprisingly it did not get a cinema release in the United Kingdom. The story is split into a series of segments which follow the traumas of a…
Women Without Men is the debut feature of Shirin Neshat, a brave and talented Iranian artist who is daring to talk about a topic many stay away from: women in a conservative Islamic society. Her film is a beautiful, poetic adaptation of a 1990 novel by Shahrnush Parsipur, a work which is banned in Iran.…
‘Definitely the Joker’ If anyone who saw The Dark Knight is asked what they liked best about the film, this is almost always the response. The bar for playing a Batman villain was well and truly raised by Heath Ledger, immortalised not only on screen but off screen as his ‘Joker’ became his legacy to…