Snowden

Oliver Stone’s Snowden tells the story of infamous NSA employee Edward Snowden and what led him to expose the surveillance techniques employed by the United States Government to the public. This is a story that is still very much going on so making a biopic about it at this stage seems somewhat baffling since the…

EIFF 2015 – The Messenger

David Blair’s The Messenger forces Jack (Robert Sheehan) to channel his inner Haley Joel Osmont as he is haunted by the ghosts of the recent deceased who call upon him to carry out unfinished business on their behalf. My comparisons to The Sixth Sense will end there as this is actually a very different film…

EIFF 2015 – Maggie

Henry Hobson’s Maggie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a father forced to make an impossible decision concerning his daughter after she is bitten by a zombie. We’ve all seen zombie stories before and we’re all incredibly sick of them. I am only speaking for myself here but there are definitely a lot of them doing the…