The Review at the End of the Universe
The 73rd Edinburgh International Film Festival begins with Ninian Doff’s Boyz in the Wood; the comedic tale of a group of wayward teens venturing into the Highlands to complete the Duke of Edinburgh award. At its core this is a coming of age story focusing on four young boys who are ultimately fairly directionless in…
Terence Davies’ Sunset Song is the first feature length film adaptation of the classic Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel favoured by English teachers nationwide -in Scotland anyway-. It tells the story of a young woman coming of age in the early part of the 20th century. This is an incredibly difficult task for me to review…
,The 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) kicked off for me with The Legend of Barney Thomson, the first feature film to be directed by Robert Carlyle. Carlyle also takes the lead as an unassuming barber named Barney Thomson who is heavily unappreciated in his job. An opening monologue relays that he would rather just…
