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Its UK premiere tonight Edinburgh Film Festival, Sophie Thatcher is the movie star haunted by a serial killer known as the Leatherman as Nicolas Winding Refn takes her for a stylish trip through Her Private Hell.
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Sophie Thatcher is the star looking down on a fog covered city haunted by a serial killer as Nicolas Winding Refn explores Her Private Hell.
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August 16, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Its world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival, the conceit of a Victorian found footage horror is technically impressive but dramatically lacking.

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A Victorian camera enthusiast chronicles the endeavours to find the killer of street women in pinhole camera found footage horror Snapshot.
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August 19, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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It's world premiere launching the Midnight Madness strand at Edinburgh International Film Festival, John Hannah and Rhada Mitchell are undeniably having a Bad Day at the Office.

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Bad Day at the Office | GeekChocolate
Waking in a hotel with a body in the bathtub and no memory of who he is or how he got there, John Hannah is having a Bad Day at the Office.
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August 17, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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My first review of #EIFF26 is comedy drama The State of Us!

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Film review: The State of Us
Within the ‘buddy movie’ sub-genre, often the story revolves around one last blowout before one or all of the friends leaves town or goes off to college or university. In comedy drama The State of …
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August 14, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the nightmare continues for a father who becomes convinced the abducted child returned is not his own in sinister twisty thriller #Imposters.

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A young couple face the dual horror of a child abduction then the inconceivable notion that their recovered boy is not theirs in Imposters.
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August 18, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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A world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival, a teenage girl growing up in a UFO hot spot seeks answers to the mystery of the death of her father Out There.

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Her father's death five years before, Mari believes a UFO mystery in her town on the Welsh coast may lead to answers Out There.
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August 18, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Fresh from its #EIFF26 World Premiere today, here’s my ★★★★ review of Lindsey Ryan’s comedy drama Capsized! 🌊

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Film review: Capsized
This year we’ve already seen Odysseus charter choppy waters to get home on the biggest of screens and in the feature debut from NY-based director Lindsey Ryan, a hard-up Irish-American family plead…
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August 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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🎙️Latest interview! 🎙️

Ahead of its World Premiere next week at EIFF26, I chatted to director Bart Simpson about his documentary The Mad World of Harvey Kurtzman!

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The Mad World of Harvey Kurtzman Interview: Bart Simpson – ‘I didn’t want this to be a puff piece’.
Keen comic-book fans may well be aware of the satirist magazine MAD that was first published in the 1950s but they might not be so familiar with its creator, Harvey Kurtzman. In the programme notes…
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August 4, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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Bel (2026 Documentary) Review
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Bel (2026 Documentary) Review
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September 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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If you missed us on the radio this week, the #EIFF26 special episode of Cinetopia is now available wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙️

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Cinetopia podcast: August 2026 – EIFF26 Reviews of The Incomer, I Want Your Sex, Sheep in the Box, and more.
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August 22, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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Its UK premiere the final "midnight madness" screening of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Faces of Death haunt a content moderator, forcing her to investigate when no one else will.

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An internet moderator becomes convinced that videos of staged killings are genuine murders, forcing her to investigate the Faces of Death.
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August 21, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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Scheduled for wider release in September and its UK premiere a late addition to the Edinburgh Film Festival programme, a small South Korean village is attacked by destructive aliens in Hope.

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Hope | GeekChocolate
A South Korean coastal town is invaded by destructive but apparently indestructible alien menace in Na Hong-jin's Hope (호프).
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August 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Fresh from its screening at #EIFF26, here's my ★★★★★ review of Maria Sødahl's drama The Last Resort.

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Film review: The Last Resort
An idyllic family holiday takes a sinister turn in The Last Resort, the latest drama from Norwegian director and co-writer Maria Sødahl. It follows Danish married couple Louise (Danica Ćurčić…
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August 20, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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With the latest #EIFF26 drawn to a close last night, today’s #ThrowbackThursday post looks back at an interview from a few years ago!

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It is in Us All Interview: Antonia Campbell-Hughes – ‘It was like a one-man-show, like theatre. It was extraordinary’.
I have been fascinated by the work of actor Cosmo Jarvis for the past few years, and always take a keen interest in what he’s working on and who he’s working with. His latest performance is in Iris…
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August 20, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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The cast of OUT THERE (2026) chat UFOs, 90s hair cuts and more!
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The cast of OUT THERE (2026) chat UFOs, 90s hair cuts and more!
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August 19, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Screening again today & tomorrow at #EIFF26, comedy drama Capsized is one of my festival highlights!

My ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review:
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My interview with director Lindsey Ryan:
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August 17, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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Its UK premiere last night at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the borders between land and sea, between city ways and country manners, between man and crustacean, dissolve at Pincer Point.

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A sound engineer is sent to an island occupied by strange and hostile eccentrics and oversize crabs in The Peril at Pincer Point.
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August 17, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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Radha Mitchell & Tamer Hassan talk BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE at EIFF
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Radha Mitchell & Tamer Hassan talk BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE at EIFF
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August 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Fresh from its UK premiere, here’s my ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of coming-of-age comedy Extra Geography! 📝 #EIFF26

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Film review: Extra Geography
Exciting acting talent has been introduced to the big screen in the feature debut from director Molly Manners. Based on Rose Tremain’s 2007 book of the same name, coming-of-age comedy drama Extra G…
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August 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Check out my Edinburgh International Film Festival coverage so far with reviews of The State of Us and Bodyhackers as well as an exclusive interview with the director of The Mad World of Harvey Kurtzman! #EIFF26

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August 15, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Its world premiere last night at Edinburgh International Film Festival, it's easier to change your appearance than make a difference in the world for the Bodyhackers.

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A cosmetics corporation reshapes the faces of the wealth as the world burns while an activist investigates their actions in Bodyhackers.
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August 15, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Fresh from its premiere at #EIFF26, here’s my review of sci-fi noir Bodyhackers!

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Film review: Bodyhackers
‘Surgery is the new sex’ was the suggestive tagline of veteran filmmaker David Cronenberg’s recent body-horror piece Crimes of the Future and this appears to have inspired the latest work from Ango…
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August 14, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Ahead of tonight’s #EIFF26 Opening Gala, today’s #ThrowbackThursday post reflects on the same event in 2023 when The Outrun opened the festival!

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The Outrun Interview: Saoirse Ronan, Nora Fingscheidt & Amy Liptrot – ‘It was important to make Rona an evolution of the three of us’.
After a period of disruption which threatened an uncertain future, the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) finds itself on more solid footing for its 77th edition this year. At its ne…
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August 13, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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#EIFF26 kicks off in a matter of days. So far, my coverage includes:

- a programme preview on the Cinetopia podcast
- my 5 must-see picks
- my interview with director Bart Simpson

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August 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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With #EIFF26 around the corner, today’s #ThrowbackThursday piece is my interview with actor Frankie Corio on Aftersun, which opened the festival back in 2022! ☀️

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Aftersun Interview: Frankie Corio – ‘Paul is now my very, very best friend’.
Scottish drama Aftersun by writer and director Charlotte Wells has been knocking audiences for six on the film festival circuit. The plot follows dad Calum, played by Normal People star Paul Mescal…
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July 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM