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Haunting EIFF 2012: The Fourth Dimension
“We are all babies. We need to cut the umbilical cord and find the right tools. Scrape off the afterbirth and kick it off into the fourth dimension!” Given a briefing by Grolsch Film Works and VICE...
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Haunting EIFF 2012: V/H/S
V/H/S opens on camcorder footage of a group of guys smashing up buildings and forcefully removing the clothes of a young woman they assault in a car park. Hints are made with regards to videoing...
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Haunting EIFF 2012: Guinea Pigs
Ian Clark’s Guinea Pigs is a horror with an interesting, and possibly exciting, premise. A group of strangers joining a clinical trial for an experimental drug at an isolated medical facility? Ooh,...
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Haunting EIFF 2012: God Bless America
“No one is shocked by anything anymore.” Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America is a biting backlash against the dumbed down, celebrity obsessed world of reality TV and trashy talk shows. Divorced,...
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Haunting EIFF 2012: Berberian Sound Studio
“I didn’t quite know I’d be working on this sort of film…” British sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones) is flown to Italy to work on sound effects for extreme supernatural horror film ‘Il Vortice...
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Review: The Place Beyond The Pines
Possible spoilers ahead. Stretching over a period of fifteen years, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines tells the intertwining tales of travelling carnival stunt rider Luke (Ryan Gosling),...
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EIFF 2013 Review: ‘Breathe In’
A safer choice of opening gala for this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, Drake Doremus’ Breathe In is a close knit, slow burning drama centred around piano teacher Keith (Guy Pearce)and the impact the...
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EIFF 2013 Review: The East
Following on from their work together on Sound of My Voice, director Zal Batmanglij has again teamed up with co-writer and star Brit Marling for his second feature – The East – in which Marling plays...
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EIFF 2013 Review: Upstream Color
The long-awaited second film from Primer director, Shane Carruth, is finally here. Claiming “you can force the shape of your story, but the color will always bloom upstream”, the wait for the bloom of...
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EIFF 2013 Review: The Bling Ring
Inspired by true life events explored in the Vanity Fair article “The Suspects Wore Louboutins”, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring follows a group of teenagers as they track down the homes of the...
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