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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013: Surprise Movie candidates
18 Jun 2013
The EIFF Surprise Movie is a closely guarded secret - here's what we think could be showing
Filth The James McAvoy-starring Irvine Welsh adaptation is a bit of a long shot, considering it isn't scheduled for general release until October. That said, the news broke recently that Filth was coming out in Scotland a week before anywhere else in…
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013: the best thrillers
18 Jun 2013
Magic Magic, Upstream Color and Il Futuro among our top picks for festival thrills
Magic Magic Director Sebastian Silva returns for his fifth feature film with Magic Magic, a psychological thriller set in his native land of Chile. All the elements for a gripping film are aligned: a young shy foreign woman sets out to spend holidays…
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013: the breakout contenders
18 Jun 2013
Stories We Tell, Jiseul and Upstream Color are likely to be the runaway successes of EIFF 2013
Stories We Tell Sarah Polley’s first feature documentary has caught the eye of film critics after a warm reception at Sundance Festival. The multi-layered investigation of her mother Diane oscillates between home Super 8 footage, conflicting family…
Shooting Bigfoot
18 Jun 2013
Quirky Sasquatch documentary about the men who hunt the legendary beast
We have consigned notions of dragons, minotaurs and giants to the status of fables but there are some monster myths that persist even in the modern world. The Yeti, the Chupacabra and Scotland's own Loch Ness Monster live on in the popular imagination…
A Haunted House
18 Jun 2013
A derivative, mean-spirited, misogynist Paranormal Activity spoof from Marlon Wayans
The Paranormal Activity model, whereby cheap, lo-fi horror films gain surprisingly high grosses, seems to work for horror spoofs as well; after contributing to the first two entries in the lamentable Scary Movie franchise, Marlon Wayans goes solo with A…