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Launching out second week of Edinburgh Film Festival coverage, we can share this roundtable interview we took part in with Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Denis O'Hare for 'The Parting Glass'

The Parting Glass is a powerful, moving and beautifully structured drama about family, love and loss, and provides a perfect platform for a series of striking performances. Driven by a core team of True Blood alumni (director Stephen Moyer, star Anna Paquin, and writer and star Denis O’Hare), the film follows a family reeling from their younger sister’s death as they embark on a journey to collect the remnants of her life. The family delve into past memories to piece together a portrait of the woman they lost.   The film marks Stephen Moyer’s directorial debut, with the astute script providing a wonderful platform for a talented group of actors. O’Hare, Melissa Leo and Cynthia Nixon star as the siblings who reminisce about their younger sister (Paquin) as they make their way to her apartment to sort through items that spark memories. In a long drive across a chilly landscape, the siblings are joined by the sister’s husband and their father . The film charts how a close-knit family deals with grief and loss – with laughter, tears and muddled memories

Lee Hutchison and Dallas King discuss their first week at the Edinburgh Film Festival and share their expeirneces and highlights. 



The duo also review all the movies they've watched during the past seven days, Puzzle, Super Modo, Blood Fest, Old Boys, Searching, 3/4, My Name is Myeshia, Lucid, Calibre, Cest La Vie, Ideal Home, The Secret of Marrowbone, Incredibles 2, The Parting Glass, The Eyes of Orson Wells, 12 Point Kill, White Chamber, The Great Buddha +, No. 1 Chung Ying Street, Never Leave Me, Eaten By Lions, In Darkness and Terminal. 

Our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage continues with this very exciting interview.

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This week director Adam Morse announced on the eve of the world premiere of his movie, 'Lucid' that he was blind. i’m joined by Adam and actor, Laurie Calvert to discuss this fantastic and inspiring story behind the making of this movie. 


Timid Zel (Laurie Calvert), adrift in a city with no friends, simultaneously craves and fears intimacy. His eccentric neighbour, Elliot (Billy Zane), offers to help him try and win over dancer Jasmine using an experimental form of dream therapy. While this so-called lucid dreaming helps him change and become more confident, his lust leads him on a dark adventure and the question remains as to whether he can charm Jasmine in reality. ?

Our coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival continues. 


Up next is an interview with French actress, Eye Haidara who plays Adele, in the fantastic French farce comedy, C'est La Vie.


C’est la vie! tells the delightfully sprawling story of a day in the life of an ageing Parisian wedding caterer driven to frustrated distraction as a complex wedding in a 17th-century chateau unravels. Look out for our in-depth reviews early next week as we look back at the first week of the festival.

Our coverage of the Edinburgh Film Festival rumbles on! 

Up today, is a bumper set of interviews for the film we highlighted in our preview episode that was Lee's most anticipated film, Calibre. It’s sold out here at the festival and will be dropping onto Netflix worldwide next week on the 29th of June

I’m joined first by writer/director and Edinburgh legend Matt Palmer. actress Kate Bracken, actor Martin Mccann  and finally, 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!


Check out Filibuster co-host, Dallas King's FIVE STAR review here - http://championshipcelluloid.blogspot.com/2018/06/calibre-eiff-review.html

Our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage continues as Lee Hutchison sits down with director Toby MacDonald and French actress Pauline Etienne to talk about the wonderfully charming, Old Boys'.


Toby Macdonald’s wonderfully-staged debut film is a re-working of Cyrano de Bergerac’s classic story, set against the backdrop of a rough-and-tumble boarding school for boys. Amberson (Alex Lawther) may be awkward at sports, but his imagination comes to the fore when he helps the handsome school hero (who is more lad than poet) pursue Agnes (Pauline Etienne), the daughter of the visiting French teacher, despite being enamoured with her himself.

Our Edinburgh film festival coverage continues with interviews with the cast and crew of ‘Eaten by Lions’, a wonderful British family comedy that follows Pete and Omar after they lose their beloved Gran and they go in search of Omar's estranged father, confronting him on the day of his daughters engagement party.


First up we’ve got actor, Antonio Aakeel who joins us over the phone, then we’ve got writer/director Jason Wingard and producer Hannah Stevenson. and for a bonus, we’ve got some red carpet interviews with Antonio and Jason, actor and comedian Jack Carroll and Hayley Tamaddon.

Our Edinburgh International Film Festival coverage continues with an interview with Spanish writer (The Orphanage & The Impossible) and director, Sergio Sánchez to discuss his directorial debut, The Secret of Marrowbone. 

We also have bonus red carpet interviews with actors George MacKay, Mia Goth, Nicola Harrison, producer Belén Atienza and Sergio Sanchez.

'The Secret of Marrowbone' is about a young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Thanks to Laura Potier of The National Student for her red carpet support, be sure to follow their EIFF coverage.

We’re kickstarting our mammoth Edinburgh Film Festival coverage with an interview with one of the most famous producers in Hollywood, he produced Little Miss Sunshine, Safety Not Guaranteed & Everything Is Illuminated, has been nominated for an Oscar and has directed his second feature, the opening movie to this years festival, Puzzle, Marc Turtletaub.

'Puzzle' follows Agnes (Scotland's Kelly MacDonald), taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.


Book tickets now at www.edfilmfest.org.uk

Lee Hutchison and Dallas King return to discuss how they spent their week off and play a game of Room 101!

Dallas teases his incredible experience attending the Secret Cinema screening of Blade Runner and Lee talks about visiting the Royal Albert Hall to watch Star Trek & Star Trek Beyond with a live orchestra. 


Dallas is in the hotseat as he picks a studio trend, marketing choice, plot device, projection experience and toxic fandom that he wants to banish to Room 101 but he must convince Lee first. 


The duo also look ahead to the start of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and share their excitment and what coverage you can expect in the coming weeks.