Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl explores the concept of living with a terminal illness and what effect that has on the people around you from the teenage perspective. Greg (Thomas Mann) is a self confessed social outcast but not in the negative sense. The film goes to great lengths to establish that he…

EIFF 2015 – Addicted to Fresno

Jamie Babbit’s Addicted to Fresno -or simply Fresno as it was known when I saw it at the Edinburgh International Film Festival- follows a recovering sex addict and her sister who get in way over their head after a relapse accidentally ends with a death that the sisters scramble to cover up. Judy Greer plays…