Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2018
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15 films · 14 reviews
The film has immense charm and skates skillfully across the surface of sentiment.
(Country: US; Year: 1988; Director: Penny Marshall; Writer: Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg; Stars: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, David Moscow, Jon Lovitz)
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: John Carpenter; Writer: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter; Stars: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li, Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, James Pax, Suzee Pai, Chao Li Chi, Jeff Imada, Rummel Mor, Craig Ng)
Essentially a love story, Casablanca is darker than a camel's eyeball.
(Country: US; Year: 1942; Director: Michael Curtiz; Writer: Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein, Howard Koch, based on the play Everybody Comes To Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison; Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Dooley Wilson, Marcel Dalio)
A ridiculous idea spun into a film that skilfully mixes genuine laughs with genuine frights and chills.
(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: Ivan Reitman; Writer: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis; Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson, David Margulies, Steven Tash, Jennifer Runyon)
The style is confused
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Gracey; Writer: Jenny Bicks, Bill Condon; Stars: Hugh Jackman. Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Keala Settle, Sam Humphrey, Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eric Anderson )
The best film of 2004 - and the best superhero movie ever!
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Brad Bird; Writer: Brad Bird; Stars: voices of Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L Jackson, Jason Lee, Dominique Louis, Teddy Newton, Jean Sincere, Spencer Fox, Sarah Vowell, Wallace Shawn) , Official site
This is Ray Harryhausen's work at its finest; it was the film he was most proud of and the skeletons, stop-motion stars of a prolonged battle sequence, were his favouite creatures.
(Country: UK, US; Year: 1963; Director: Don Chaffey; Writer: Jan Read, Beverley Cross; Stars: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Douglas Wilmer, Jack Gwillim, Honor Blackman)
(Country: Australia; Year: 2001; Director: Baz Luhrmann; Writer: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce; Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman)
Paddington is irresistible, funny and smartly constructed with a disarmingly big heart.
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2014; Director: Paul King; Writer: Paul King and Hamish McColl, based on the books by Michael Bond; Stars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Nicole Kidman, Peter Capaldi, Jim Broadbent)
This is exactly what a sequel should be, respectful, goose bumpy and warm hearted
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2017; Director: Paul King; Writer: Simon Farnaby, Paul King, based on the books by Michael Bond; Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris, Tom Conti, Noah Taylor, Ben Miller, Eileen Atkins, Joanna Lumley, voices of Ben Whishaw, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon)
It's that old magic again.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Rian Johnson; Writer: Rian Johnson, George Lucas; Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Fisher, Kelly Marie Tran, Gwendoline Christie, Domhnall Gleeson, Billie Lourd, Andy serkis, Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro)
This really is the funniest, campest mainstream superhero film I can remember since the Adam West incarnation of Batman.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Taika Waititi; Writer: Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, based on the comics by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack KIrby; Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Jeff Goldblum, Idris Elba, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Clancy Brown)
Cruise, the cheesy soundtrack and the stunning aerial photography that marks out its combat scenes are its three main selling points.
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: Tony Scott; Writer: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr; Stars: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer)
Not without its silly and over-the-top moments, Who Framed Roger Rabbit remains a very entertaining technical marvel.
(Country: US; Year: 1998; Director: Robert Zemeckis; Writer: Gary K Wolf, Jeffrey Price, Peter S Seaman; Stars: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Stubby Kaye)
Sometimes a film is more, much more, than the sum of its parts.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Patty Jenkins; Writer: Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder; Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner, Eugene Brave Rock)
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