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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: *smiles and kisses you*, by Simon Read

A documentary about a young man who anthropomorphizes his love doll might seem like an exploitative bit of titillating voyeurism, and for all the thought that’s been put into the project, Bryan Carberry‘s film would probably be just that, were...

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Episode 909: TIFF 2024 Preview

Tyler and David talk about the movies at the upcoming 2024 Toronto International Film Festival as well as company man John Cena. Movies discussed in the TIFF 2024 preview include Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch and more! Battleship Pretension is a movie...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Steppenwolf, by Simon Read

Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov‘s thriller Steppenwolf is an unflinching homage to classic Western and Samurai films, set in the dystopic scrublands of the Kazakh Steppe. The story concerns a woman named Tamara, (Anna Starchenko) whose son has been abducted by...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Timestalker, by Simon Read

Alice Lowe is no stranger to the Edinburgh Festival scene. I first saw her performing alongside Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness in the Fringe stage show of Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight in the year 2000, when I was a sixteen-year-old...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, by Simon Read

Adapted from his short film of the same name, Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, marks the feature debut oftalented graphic artist Ishan Shukla. While there is a lot to admire in its innovatve craft and graphic design – it is...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Bogancloch, by Simon Read

Director Ben Rivers revisits the subject of his 2011 documentary Two Years at Sea, featuring the forest-dwelling hermit Jake Williams. Williams lives a relatively solitary existence in a forested area in the highlands of Scotland known asBogancloch, and the film...

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