In Review

In Review: Storage 24

by Helen Cox 25 June 2012

The director of 2010′s F, Johannes Roberts switches his skilllset from schools to storage containers in Storage 24 – a well-acted, if uneven, stab at the comedy-horror genre. The story opens with a plane crashing down in Battersea, central London as the newly-split Charlie (co-writer Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) are dividing their belongings [...]

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012: Brake

by Tom Grater 25 June 2012

Stephen Dorff stars in Brake, a terrible incarnation of Buried [Ryan Reynolds vehicle] , with the former making the latter look like a masterpiece.

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Edinburgh International Film Festival: Jackpot

by Tom Grater 25 June 2012

Recently, the Scandinavian pulp fiction scene – affectionately dubbed ‘Nordic Noir’ – has seen big success in the wake of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy.

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In Review: Earth 2 – The Complete Series

by Helen Cox 22 June 2012

Earth 2 is a somewhat forgotten sci-fi series that originally aired on NBC in 1994. Produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, the show opens in 2192 when humans live out on space stations due to the fact that Earth is now uninhabitable.

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In Review: Fast Girls

by Adam Vaughan 22 June 2012

Released amidst the London Olympics hullabaloo, Fast Girls is a spirited, family-friendly sporting drama designed to excite us into an appropriately sport-themed frenzy.

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In Review: Planet of Snail

by Mairéad Roche 22 June 2012

Planet of Snail is the unusual title for the Korean feature length documentary by Seung-Jun Yi, referring to how Young-Chang, the documentary’s main subject, describes his experience as a deaf and blind person feeling his way through life.

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In Review: Chernobyl Diaries

by Charlotte Stear 22 June 2012

When a group of four wide-eyed, bushy tailed American travellers decide that their backpacking adventure needs to be more extreme, none of them expect the nightmare ahead of them. Silly really, had none of them ever seen a horror movie before? This is pretty standard stuff for travellers.

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012: Killer Joe

by Tom Grater 21 June 2012

Director William Friedkin – responsible for two of the greatest films of the 70s – appears to have now reached that age where, through the use of his name, he can do just about any project he wishes to. Evidently, he wanted to adapt Tracy Letts’ 1993 stage play Killer Joe .

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012: Lovely Molly

by Tom Grater 21 June 2012

Found footage horror is officially dead. I’m serious, the genre has now been fully divested and hung out to dry, bloodless guts exposed.

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In Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

by Jonathan Hatfull 21 June 2012

Given the popularity of Seth Grahame-Smith’s horror mashup novels it was only matter of time before they found their way to the big screen. With Pride and Prejudice and Zombies seemingly stalled indefinitely, it’s the film of Smith’s American reimagined history lesson from Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov’s that’s reached us first.

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Sheffield DocFest 2012: High Tech, Low Life

by Tom Grater 20 June 2012

One of several exports from China at this year’s Sheffield DocFest, this story of two separate Chinese bloggers who rove around the country doing a kind of gonzo journalism is interesting and really nicely put together, but ultimately a little unsatisfying.

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