Last year, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block demonstrated that, post-Shaun of the Dead, the UK was capable of producing impressive monster movies which could acknowledge a slew of Hollywood influences while still maintaining their own identity. Jon Wright’s Grabbers has now, it seems, done the same for Ireland, albeit in slightly more parodic fashion. The […]
“Guy, did the world end?” “I’m not sure.” I don’t know who wrote the blurb for this film on the official Edinburgh Festival website, but it’s very misleading. As far as I can see, there are no “space aliens” to be found in Young Dudes, the latest feature from acclaimed Taiwanese director DJ Chen. […]
And so we come to the film chosen to officially open the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival; William Friedkin’s Killer Joe. It might seem as though Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) has been relatively quiet since his ’70s heyday, but nothing could be further from the truth. Although the ’90s were something of a […]
Stories of returning soldiers readjusting to life after war have become so ubiquitous in cinema that they perhaps deserve their own sub-genre. What is different about Him, Here After, though, is that the conflict which its nameless protagonist has survived is one rarely featured in film and is perhaps therefore unfamiliar to western audiences – […]
One theme of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival is a celebration of the new wave of Philippine cinema, which is seemingly undergoing something of a renaissance at the moment. If we take Lawrence Fajardo’s urban fable Amok to be an example of this new movement, then it looks to have a very bright future […]
Festival season has come around again in the fair city of Edinburgh, kicking off with the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which will run for the next two weeks. This year, for the first time ever, the Geekzine will have a presence at the festival itself, and we’ll be bringing you reviews of the […]