Festivals

With A Good Woman is Hard to Find (2019), director Abner Pastoll demonstrates that his work is nothing if not surprising. Where his previously best known feature - the disturbing Road Games (2015) - let things bubble along with tones of…

Elijah Wood must face up to some extreme daddy issues in Ant Timpson's darkly comic horror Come To Daddy. It is nice to see Wood make a return to the horror genre following 2012's hugely underrated remake of Maniac. Norvel Greenwood…

Forensic pathologist Paul Herzfeld (Moritz Bleibtreu) is on the trail of a serial killer who has abducted his daughter Hannah (Barbara Prakopenka) and hidden her on a remote island off the north coast of Germany. With the help of Linda…

Eddie Marsan puts the "shock" into Shock Jock in Feedback, a thriller debuting at #Frightfest2019 by director Pedro C. Alonso that dials the tension all the way up to 11.

The Closing Night Gala at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival will be Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. Starring Academy Award winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, The Irishman will be having its international premiere on Sunday…

Harold Holscher’s debut feature, 8, is seeping in South African culture and folklore as reality and superstitions collide. It’s hard to imagine that a film draped in breathtaking imagery is hiding something dark - what the film’s…

Sonya is searching for many things. She’s searching for the wealth that would allow her to keep her embalming business open; she’s searching for the love of the neighbourhood taho vendor; she’s searching for some way to make herself feel…

Alexandre Carrière’s Jade’s Asylum ends with the message that you have to do whatever it takes “to get that annoying boyfriend or that ghost that’s been forever haunting you to shut the f*ck up.” And going to an island inhabited by…

For a country known for Girls With Dragon Tattoos and Dancing Queens, Sweden asks you to take a chance on sci-fi epic Aniara. And this winner takes it all as it is one of the best films screened at the Edinburgh International Film…

2019 sees the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing and writer-director Shelagh McLeod's debut feature Astronaut shows that the desire to reach for the stars remains strong. McLeod was inspired by the image of an old man at a…