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70th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Day Eight: The Man Who Was Thursday & The Commune

23/6/2016

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​Burning GK Chesterton's classic novel at the stake, with no signs of a penitent heart, in the totally nutty The Man Who Was Thursday. Bohemian group living goes badly for some in Thomas Vinterberg's dark alt-family dramedy The Commune


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70th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Day Seven: River & History's Future

22/6/2016

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Name: John Lake. Profession: Doctor of Medicine. Destination: Some Laotian prison, maybe. Film: Jamie M Dagg's frantic thriller River | Arthouse head-trip History's Future tells the story of one man's brain-damage and capitalism's moral-damage
 
Morally complex mumble-chase and an enigmatic experimental trip inside a damaged mind in two films from my seventh day at EIFF 2016 [read more at The 405]
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70th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Day Six: Zero Days & Mojin: The Lost Legend

21/6/2016

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The beginning of a worldwide cyberwar in Alex Gibney's informative and thrilling documentary Zero Days 

Chairman Mao loves the people, he is our guide, to a big, dumb, tomb-raiding ride. Hurrah! Lead us forward to fantasy-adventure Mojin: The Lost Legend

 
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70th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Day Five: Yoga Hosers & The Library Suicides

20/6/2016

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Bloody revenge becomes as difficult as spelling Aberystwyth in great Welsh-language thriller The Library Suicides

Hollywood tragedy Kevin Smith insults Canadians, critics and his own child with horror-comedy that is neither scary nor funny in Yoga Hosers 

Didn't think I'd see a film worse than Macbeth Unhinged at EIFF. So, congratulations to Kevin Smith, I guess. Quite the achievement.


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70th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Day Four: Brakes & Moon Dogs

19/6/2016

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Two films reviewed from the Best of British strand of EIFF 2016

A break-up shake-up comedy that makes you think about every bad relationship you ever had in Brakes

A Welshman, a Scotsman, and an Irish Manic Pixie Dream Girl take a trip to find the punchline to that joke, in the endearing but clumsy drama Moon Dogs

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70th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Day Three: Aloys & The Fits

17/6/2016

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Reviews from the third day of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Things pick up considerably after a rather mixed start, with two of the most imaginative and precise cinematic visions I've seen in years.

Surreal phone games open up an introverted detective and world of shared fantasy in Aloys | A timid tomboy boxing student faces an inexplicable gendered illness when she becomes a dancing Lioness in The Fits. 


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70th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Day Two: Macbeth Unhinged, Seoul Station & The Model

16/6/2016

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Barmy Bard-baiting in Macbeth Unhinged | Tokyo Godfathers but with zombies in Seoul Station | It only takes a camera to crack her mind in The Model

Reviews from the second day of EIFF 2016

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70th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Day One: Opening Film Tommy's Honour

15/6/2016

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First daily report from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, with a review of the opening film Tommy's Honour. Not a great start.

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Demolition Review for The 405

12/5/2016

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Demolition is frequently funny, sometimes touching and occasionally surprising, but constructs a wall of metaphors and quirks rather than knock down the artifice to deal with grief in a truly effective way. Enjoyment of the film depends very much on a viewer's willingness to accept the hack symbolism and surfeit of schmaltz, and just appreciate what works.

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