Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2011
9 films · 9 reviews
Somewhere a story of love and courage lies buried beneath the silt of mediocrity.
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Niall MacCormick; Writer: Tamzin Rafn; Stars: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond, Felicity Jones, Peter Vaughan, Harry Treadaway, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Jessica Brown Findlay)
Angels Crest has a number of peripheral problems, mostly to do with the sheer number of under-developed characters and subplots.
(Country: Canada, UK; Year: 2011; Director: Gaby Dellal; Writer: Leslie Schwartz, Catherine Trieschmann; Stars: Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth McGovern, Jeremy Piven, Lynn Collins, Mira Sorvino, Kate Walsh, Joseph Morgan, Rachel Clentworth, Ameko Eks Mass Carroll, Chris Ippolito, Greg Lawson, Julian Domingues, Emma Macgillivray, Colin A. Campbell) , Official site
Despite appealing leads and the subtle creepiness of the escalating phone-calls, director Matthew Parkhill can't make the pieces fit, leaving the audience hanging in frustration rather than in suspense.
(Country: Puerto Rico; Year: 2010; Director: Matthew Parkhill; Writer: Sergio Casci; Stars: Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer, Lorna Raver, Ed Quinn, Luis Guzmán)
A deeply derivative string of spew-inducing Inciting Incidents and plot contrivances aiming for the weakest in rom and com.
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Carter Ferguson; Writer: Debbie May, James McCreadie; Stars: Jo Freer, Derek Munn, William Ruane, Dave Anderson, Barbera Rafferty)
If the truth of Her Majesty's Pleasure is a kick in the balls, or a blade in the back, you may be excused for thinking that you have been here before.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Craig Viveiros; Writer: Craig Viveiros; Stars: John Lynch. David Schofield, Martin Compston, Craig Parkinson, Art Malik)
The intrigue feels under-cooked and the subject matter is yesterday's news, robbing an admirably action-free mystery of much of its impact.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: David Hare; Writer: David Hare; Stars: Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon)
There's an awareness here that's missing from many such tales, a more astute take on how disability and society interact.
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: David Mackenzie; Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson; Stars: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Ewen Bremner, Stephen Dillane, Denis Lawson, Alastair Mackenzie, James Watson, Caroline Paterson, Shabana Akhtar Bakhsh, Liz Strange, Richard Mack, Malcolm Shields, Adam Smith)
Won't set the box office alight but has plenty of atmosphere and imagination to commend it.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Dan Turner; Writer: Jason Arnopp, based on the story by Dan Turner and Jason Arnopp; Stars: Grant Masters, Katie Flynn, Grahame Fox, Patrick Flynn, Jordan Pitt, James Capel)
The shame is that there’s the potential for a good film in here.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Karl Golden; Writer: Chris Coghill; Stars: Jack O'Connell, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Ben Batt, Tom Meeten, Emily Barclay, Sam Hazeldine)
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