Alistair Harkness

As an Edinburgh resident whose life and career have been shaped by the city's screen scene, writer-director Louis Paxton is thrilled to be kicking off this year's EIFF with his offbeat comedy about a pair of orphaned siblings.

Matt Johnson’s film about the early life of the late chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain is more subdued than you might expect, writes Alistair Harkness

Anne Hathaway is the stand-out star of The End of Oak Street, which sits somewhere between summer blockbuster and art house horror, writes Alistair Harkness

Alistair Harkness admires the bold and the beautiful in Paul Wright's kaleidoscopic George MacKay-starring Mission, and the blissed-out candidness of Tamra Davis's 1990s alternative music time capsule documentary The Best Summer.

Jason Statham is back on form in Jean-François Richet’s maritime thriller Mutiny, writes Alistair Harkness

Alistair Harkness admires the bold and the beautiful in Paul Wright's kaleidoscopic George MacKay-starring Mission, and the blissed-out candidness

Olivia Wilde gives a hilariously outré performance as a predatory artist in Gregg Araki’s raunchy farce I Want Your Sex, writes Alistair Harkness

Pedro Almodóvar's take on the vampiric nature of artistic creation suffers by comparison to other films on the same theme, writes Alistair Harkness

Olivia Wilde gives a hilariously outré performance as a predatory artist in Gregg Araki's raunchy farce I Want Your Sex, writes Alistair Harkness

This left-field take on the Robin Hood story from Michael Sarnoski is easier to admire than it is to like, writes Alistair Harkness