EIFF 2015 – Len and Company

Tim Godsall’s Len and Company casts Rhys Ifans as an ageing disgruntled punk rocker who puts himself into seclusion to get away from it all. Are there any happy ageing punk rockers in fiction? I seriously can’t think of any. Going in I wasn’t sure if this film would manage to distinguish itself with such a…

On the Silver Screen – It Follows

David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows focuses on 19 year old Jay (Maika Monroe) who finds herself cursed after sleeping with a guy she’s been seeing. The curse takes the form of a relentless ghostly presence that follows the victim until it catches them. Once it does that then death immediately follows. It can be passed…