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EIFF: Walk With Me (2024) – Director Heidi Levitt discusses working with her family, letting herself create and the need for a movement to help Alzheimer patients and their caregivers
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In a particularly challenging scene of Heidi Levitt’s Walk With Me, the director has lost her husband in…
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EIFF: Best Boy (2025) – Director Jesse Noah Klein talks family trauma, the importance of language and exploring drama through a comic lens
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Writer/director Jesse Noah Klein’s Best Boy opens with a funeral – the patriarch of the Seligmans is dead,…
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EIFF: Concessions (2025) – Director Mas Bouzidi talks movie theatres, influences and working with his hero, the late Michael Madsen
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It’s a Saturday, and The Royal Alamo, a beloved independent movie theatre, is closing after 52 years. From…
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EIFF: Zodiac Killer Project (2025) – Director Charlie Shackleton discusses our fascination with the macabre, spontaneity and how failure can be turned into creativity
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Charlie Shackleton was halfway through planning his Zodiac Killer documentary when the rights to the source material fell…
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The Salt Path controversy – a step too far?
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A book turned film has been on my mind a lot recently – The Salt Path, by Raynor…
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Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) – fun and action-packed latest instalment without any of the depth
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In the latest addition to the Jurassic Park/World franchise, the likes of Sam Neill and Bryce Dallas Howard…
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F1: The Movie (2025) – the fast and the tedious
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The premise alone of F1: The Movie requires your disbelief to have better suspension than the cars. However,…
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Die Akademie (2024) – an entertaining female Whiplash with little of the stakes
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Maja Bons is excellent as budding and naïve artist Jojo in Camilla Guttner’s Die Akademie, a surreal tale…
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28 Years Later (2025) – Danny Boyle’s tense third instalment does too much all at once
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Six months ago, one of the most frightening trailers to ever grace screens dropped to mass – apocalyptic…
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Good One (2024) – Lily Collias walks a winding path in India Donaldson’s indie full of complicated emotions
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There are always two types of hikers – those who know how to pack peanut butter and those…
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The Salt Path (2024) – unremarkable film for what is a truly remarkable story
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Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake meets Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild in this moving saga of a couple who, evicted…
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I finally watched Schindler’s List (1993)
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The idea you make of a film before watching it has always been a strange concept – a…
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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) – Wes Anderson bounces back with whimsical tale of a father and daughter bonding over illegal affairs
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Are Wes Anderson’s films loved because of the way they look or because of the stories they tell?…
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Riefenstahl (2024) – portrait of Hitler’s personal film director is fascinating if slightly biased
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“Memory is the paradise from which you can never be removed”, writes Leni Riefenstahl in one of her…
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) – a bittersweet send-off
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Well, that’s it, folks. Mission: Impossible is over. On the one hand, it feels hard to believe that this latest instalment…