Elijah Wood and Celyn Jones star in a story chronicling the arrival of famous poet Dylan Thomas (Jones) to the United States for a 40 day tour. This causes complications as Thomas’ tendency to excess and his general larger than life, unpredictable personality makes keeping him on schedule increasingly difficult. Elijah Wood plays John Malcolm….

Castles In The Sky focuses on historical figure Robert Watson-Watt (Eddie Izzard) and his carefully chosen team of eccentric meteorologists as they struggle with a laughable budget to bring the concept of Radar to life. Throughout the story Watson-Watt has to deal with a great many technical issues, marital problems and even a spy in…

First of my comprehensive reviews of films I saw at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. I have covered all of these in far less detail on my daily roundups but now that it’s all over with I’m going back and looking at some of the films I felt were worth talking about. Generally I’ll do…

Well that’s it all over for this year. Today I attended the Empire Magazine Hero Hangout featuring Simon Helberg and wife/co-producer/co-director Jocelyn Towne. I had a lot of fun at the Edinburgh International Film festival and saw a lot of great films as well as meeting a lot of interesting people. There are things I…

Shortest day yet with only one film to speak of. I attended the Press & Industry screening of the Brian O’Malley directed Let Us Prey. My plan is to start doing more comprehensive reviews of some of my favourites over the next while so keep an eye out for that. I have one more day…

Really short day with only one film consumed. I did manage to be around for Aubrey Plaza arriving on the red carpet. The Press & Industry screening I attended was the Joanna Coates directed Hide and Seek. Hide and Seek Four young people move from London to a house in the English countryside. They do…

Another busy one today with three Press & Industry screenings and an Empire Magazine Hero Hangout featuring none other than Elijah Wood. Press screenings for today were the Simon Helberg & Jocelyn Towne directed We’ll Never Have Paris, the Paul Harrill directed Something, Anything and lastly the Leigh Janiak directed Honeymoon. We’ll Never Have Paris…

Today is another embargo free day so happy days from that point of view. Had a mega busy day today with three Press & Industry screenings as well as attending the recording of the Empire Magazine podcast so got lots to talk about. The press screenings I attended were for the Noel Clarke directed sci-fi…

No review embargo signatures today so I’m free to actually talk about the movies I saw. Today I attended Press & Industry screenings of the James Ward Byrkit directed Coherence and the David Gordon Green directed Joe. Lastly I was fortunate enough to be around to see Elijah Wood and Celyn Edwards red carpet arrival…

My third day involved me going to two Press and Industry Screenings and one Public Screening. The Press screenings I attended were the Gabe Turner directed The Guvnors and the Graham Hughes directed A Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide. As for the public screening, that was the Gia Coppola directed Palo Alto. The Guvnors…