Film Review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

What is it that holds relationships, and in particular marriages, together? Love? Devotion? Routine? For Pippa Lee, the heroine at the centre ofRebecca Miller’s life-affirming new film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee the answer would seem to be “all of the above, with a side helping of luck.”

EIFF 2009 Preview: Mesrine Parts 1 & 2

The next film to look out for at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival is actually two films, two halves of a story about real-life French criminal Jacques Mesrine: Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One.

EIFF 2009 Preview: The Hurt Locker

With the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival just a few days away, there’s still time for a few short previews of some of the films I think are worth searching out: The Hurt Locker from director Kathryn Bigelow is one of the more populist ones.

EIFF 2009 Preview: Wide Open Spaces

I’ve a sneaky feeling Wide Open Spaces could be brilliant: it’s written by one half of the writing team behind Father Ted, stars one of the cast of Father Ted and has a suitably odd premise that might just work.

EIFF 2009 Preview: Black Dynamite

In the run-up to the launch of next week’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, I’ll be posting the trailers to some of the films I think are worth spending your hard earned cash on.

Film Preview: Reel Time, 8 May, Edinburgh Evening News

My Reel Time column for last Friday’s Edinburgh Evening News is now live on their site and covers bundle of my choices from this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival brochure.