Filibuster

Lee Hutchison is joined by actor Thomas Turgoose and director Oliver Parker  to discuss ‘Swimming With Men’ which closed the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival and we’ve got some bonus red carpet interviews with Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves and Daniel Mays.

Rob Brydon plays Eric, an accountant whose life seems to be in order until in a moment of middle-aged madness he starts to think his wife, Heather , is having an affair and he moves out of their home. He finds solace of sorts at the local swimming pool, where he ends up joining a team of similarly challenged men who form a male synchronized swimming team. Against all odds, they end up training for the world championships in Milan, with Eric hoping his wife will be impressed by his new skills.  

Lee Hutchison is joined by writer/director Tom Edmunds and actress, Freya Mavor  to talk about the brilliant original British comedy movie, Dead In A Week (Or Your Money Back)  which had it’s world premiere this week at the Edinburgh Film Festival. the film has struck a chord with not just me but audiences and has earned a well earned spot on the best of the fest. 

After 27-year-old William  fails at his ninth attempt at suicide, he decides to take up a genial 65-year-old hitman, Leslie, on his offer to help out. Leslie has quotas to meet to keep his membership in an assassin’s guild, but when William meets the woman of his dreams  things get more complicated for both men.

Our weekend of coverage continues with an interview with Australian actress, Melissa George who speaks with me about her return to down under to play Evelyn in ‘The Butterfly Tree’

When burlesque-performer-turned-florist Evelyn arrives in an Australian town, she beguiles 13-year-old Fin  and his teacher father, Al. Father and son are struggling to cope with the loss of Fin’s mother and quick to warm to Evelyn’s charms. Writer/director Priscilla Cameron’s film is rich with atmosphere and idealism, and Melissa George is charismatic as a romanticised woman who cannot live up to the expectations of men, but who represents the hope of finding a way out of sadness.

We enter the final weekend of our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage and we've got a bumper weekend of interviews and coverage to come.


Lee Hutchison is joined by Travis frontman, Fran Healy who has brought his documentary, 'Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis' to the festival for it's world premiere. 


'Almost Fashionable' follows music journalist Wyndham Wallace who has always been clear that he is not a big fan of Scottish band Travis. When lead singer Fran Healy invites Wallace to join Travis on tour in Mexico, the journalist is intrigued and bemused. After soliciting the opinion of other writers, he heads off on tour, filming fans to get their views. A delightful, warm-hearted and tuneful look at Travis, examining why their fans love them, while offering a chance to see if a critic can change his views.

It's day 12 of our podcast interviews and coverage from the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival continues!

Hearts Beat Loud received it’s UK premiere last night and i’m joined by it’s director and co-wirter Brett Haley to talk about the making of this feel good movie. 

Hearts Beat Loud features Nick Offerman as a young-at-heart father about to sell his Brooklyn record shop just as his daughter (Kiersey Clemons) is heading to college in California to study medicine. The pair make great music together, but when he wants to practice, she wants to study.  But one night after a jam session, they become internet sensations after a song they recorded goes viral.

Our eleventh day of podcast interviews and coverage from the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival continues.

Today, we’re lucky to bring you interviews with the cast and crew of the fantastic british feature, 'My Friend The Polish Girl' with co-writers and directors, Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek and actors Emma Friedman-Cohen and Aneta Piotrowska

'My Friend The Polish Girl' follows Katie (Emma Friedman-Cohen), a young American documentarian, casts a Polish woman in her film about the life of migrants in London after the Brexit referendum. Her only instruction as director to Alicja (Aneta Piotrowska) is: "Act as if I’m not here." However, as their relationship develops it becomes clear that all is not what it seems in Alicja’s life, and this would-be actor’s interest in both film and Katie deepens. The documentary soon becomes the narrative of a questionable game in which the two women challenge each other.

Our eleventh day of podcast interviews and coverage from the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival continues...

Up first today is our interview with actress Sophie Kennedy Clark and writer/director, Jamie Jones who join me to discuss obey, one of my highlights of the film festival.

Obey is about Leon, a nineteen year old boy with an alcoholic mother who has grown up in and out of care. Finally free from adult supervision, Leon begins to rail against the injustice of his reality as his dreams become more and more unattainable and distant.  Leon’s existence is suffocating, and all too real. When he meets Twiggy, a beautiful blond girl living in a local squat something stirs inside of him. As she introduces him to her world, the weight of his past lifts.

Welcome to the second podcast that’s dropping on day 10 of our coverage of the Edinburgh Film Festival.

I’m joined by Anthony Bynre, the co-writer and director of a new thriller, called 'In Darkness'. Anthony Byrne co-wrote this script with his partner and lead actor, Natalie Dormer. 

Lee's first joined by Anthony and then we have some red carpet interviews with Natalie Dormer and again by Anthony. 

'In Darkness' sees Dormer plays Sofia, a blind musician drawn into London’s criminal underbelly when her neighbour Veronique  dies in the apartment upstairs. Initially, police believe it is suicide, but Veronique, the daughter of an alleged war criminal, knew she was in trouble. Caught between the police and criminals, Sofia must try to survive.

Welcome to day 10 of our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage and we've got a huge interview today.

Lee Hutchison is joined by the legenedary director, Joe (Gremlins, The Howling, Piranha, Small Soldiers) Dante to discuss his incredible career and share his advice and insight after decades in the industry. 

Our second week at the Edinburgh International Film Festival continues with with 'Calbire' writer/director, Matt Palmer returning for an extended interview.



Be sure to check out our bumper episode last week about 'Calibre' which also featured Matt and actors Kate Bracken, Martin McCan and Tony Curran. 


Calibre is about two lifelong friends, (one of them played by former Filibuster guest Jack Lowden)  who head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. Nothing could prepare them for what follows!


i hope you’ll enjoy our interview and 'Calibre' will be available worldwide from Friday the 29th, don’t miss it!



Variety Review - variety.com/2018/film/festivals/calibre-review-1202855868/