The Great Hip Hop Hoax, 2013. Directed by Jeanie Finlay. SYNOPSIS: A documentary by Jeanie Finlay, about a pair of Scottish rappers who decide to take on Californian aliases to get a record deal. As soon as I read the premise, I knew that I would have to see this film. With such a deliciously […]

Despicable Me 2, 2013. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud.Featuring the voice talents of Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Steve Coogan, Ken Jeong, and Miranda Cosgrove. SYNOPSIS: Reformed evil mastermind Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to take down a terrorising villain. Were people screaming out for a sequel to […]

Snitch, 2013. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh.Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jon Bernthal, Susan Sarandon, Barry Pepper, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Kenneth Williams, Melina Kanakaredes and Nadine Velazquez. SYNOPSIS: A father goes undercover for the DEA in order to free his son who was imprisoned after being set up in drug deal.   Since spreading his beefy wings […]

Samantha Morrison begins her coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013… Monsters University, 2013. Directed by Dan Scanlon.Featuring the voice talents of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Dave Foley, Sean P. Hayes, Joel Murray, Peter Sohn, Charlie Day, Nathan Fillion, Frank Oz and John Ratzenberger.   SYNOPSIS: A look […]

Resolution, 2012. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.Starring Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Kurt David Anderson and Bill Oberst Jr. SYNOPSIS: Peter (Michael Danube) receives a strange email from a lifelong friend, Chris (Vinny Curran), a loser drug addict whose serious addiction problems have alienated him from his friends and family. Peter decides […]

Entity, 2012. Directed by Steve Stone.Starring Dervla Kirwan, Charlotte Riley, Branko Tomovic, Rupert Hill, Oliver Jackson and Michael David Worden. SYNOPSIS: In 2010, a British TV crew headed to a remote Russian location to conduct a paranormal investigation in order to uncover the truth behind the grisly discovery of thirty two bodies, but after venturing […]

Foxy Brown, 1974. Directed by Jack Hill.Starring Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe and Sid Haig. SYNOPSIS: A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. “She’s brown sugar and spice but if you don’t […]

Before Midnight, 2013. Directed by Richard Linklater.Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed and Athina Rachel Tsangari. SYNOPSIS: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna. With Before Midnight, director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke […]

World War Z, 2013. Directed by Marc Forster.Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, Fana Mokoena, James Badge Dale, David Morse, Matthew Fox, Abigail Hargrove, Sterling Jerins, and Fabrizio Zacharee Guidoas. SYNOPSIS: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and […]

Black Rock, 2012. Directed by Katie Aselton.Starring Katie Aselton, Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth, Will Bouvier, Jay Paulson, Anslem Richardson and Carl K. Aselton. SYNOPSIS: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into […]