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Episode 44 : EIFF 2009 Podcast Episode 05

Well, slap me with a haddock and call me Gerald! It's the last podcast from the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009! Five films covered, with more dross than we're used to. Scott and Drew drop fact bombs on The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life, Wasted, The Calling, Jalainur and Wide Open Spaces.

Featured Reviews

Mary and Max

Mary and Max (5/5): Devilishly funny, utterly charming off kilter stop-motion animation.[Read full review]

Mary and Max

Goodbye, How Are You?

Goodbye, How Are You? (4/5): Best satirical documentary fairytale of the year.[Read full review]

Goodbye, How Are You?

Harmony and Me

Harmony and Me (0/5): Supposed to be a comedy. Not funny. Fail.[Read full review]

Harmony and Me

Terribly Happy

Terribly Happy (4/5): Interesting, off-beat Danish thriller.[Read full review]

Terribly Happy

Giallo

Giallo (4/5): Ludicrously hilarious Argento outing, largely because it's so ludicrous.[Read full review]

Giallo

Breathless

Breathless (4/5): Violent, bleak gangster cum domestic violence film. Powerful, if not perfect calling card from a promising young director.[Read full review]

Breathless

Antichrist

Antichrist (0/5): Miserable failure dressed as artistic exploration. Pish. No, actually, complete pish.[Read full review]

Antichrist

Fear Me Not

Fear Me Not (4/5): The drugs don't work, they just warp your character. [Read full review]

Fear Me Not

Easier with Practice

Easier with Practice (2/5): Sparse, dull phone-sex relate-o-drama.[Read full review]

Easier with Practice

Rule #1

Rule #1 (3/5): Cops vs. ghosts. Works better as an offbeat police procedural than as a scary movie.[Read full review]

Rule #1

We're devoting ourselves yet again to giving you the skinny on the films descending on Edinburgh for this year's shindig. Check 'em out!


  • Little Soldier (4/5): Above average drama, albeit a relentlessly bleak one.
  • Rule #1 (3/5): Cops vs. ghosts. Works better as an offbeat police procedural than as a scary movie.
  • Fear Me Not (4/5): The drugs don't work, they just warp your character.
  • Easier with Practice (2/5): Sparse, dull phone-sex relate-o-drama.
  • Antichrist (0/5): Miserable failure dressed as artistic exploration. Pish. No, actually, complete pish.
  • Breathless (4/5): Violent, bleak gangster cum domestic violence film. Powerful, if not perfect calling card from a promising young director.
  • Giallo (4/5): Ludicrously hilarious Argento outing, largely because it's so ludicrous.
  • Terribly Happy (4/5): Interesting, off-beat Danish thriller.
  • Harmony and Me (0/5): Supposed to be a comedy. Not funny. Fail.
  • Goodbye, How Are You? (4/5): Best satirical documentary fairytale of the year.
  • Mary and Max (5/5): Devilishly funny, utterly charming off kilter stop-motion animation.

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