Eddie the Eagle

Dexter Fletcher’s Eddie the Eagle tells the story of Olympic ski jumper Eddie Edwards who achieved his dream of competing at the 1988 Winter Olympics. I don’t know much about the real Eddie Edwards so I don’t know how true to life this film is but that doesn’t really matter in the context of a…

EIFF 2015 – North V. South

Steven Nesbit’s North V. South attempts to loosely adapt the famous Shakespeare play Romeo & Juliet and set it in modern day Britain amidst the backdrop of a gangland dispute. Shakespeare is definitely one of literature’s most adapted writers. The reason for this is that his stories at their core have a timeless quality to them. Many…

EIFF 2015 – Hector

Jake Gavin’s Hector stars Peter Mullan as the titular character and follows him as he lives his life hitchhiking from place to place. Hector McAdam (Peter Mullan) has been living on the road for an untold number of years for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. The story is kept very loose and his only objective…