Baby Assassins – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Scott Wilson March 17, 2022 Reviews “We kill people so we don’t have to get boring jobs.” It’s as simple as that: unassuming teenagers Mahiro and Chisato are employed to bump people off. Skilled in hand-to-hand combat and with firearms,...
The Hermit of Treig – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Scott Wilson March 17, 2022 Reviews Close to the lonely loch, Loch Treig, lives Ken Smith, a hermit of almost forty years and a keen documenter, having kept meticulous diaries and taken thousands of photos. Director Lizzie MacKenzie struck up a...
Casablanca Beats – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Scott Wilson March 14, 2022 Reviews A young rapper teaches teens in a rough part of town how to express themselves through rhyme and verse in Morocco’s Oscar submission. Anas’s students are made up of young people playing fictionalised...
Adult Adoption – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Scott Wilson March 7, 2022 Reviews Rosy lies awake in bed watching a roleplay video. It’s of a woman acting motherly, pretending to put her to bed. Rosy is 25-years-old and ‘aged out’ of the foster system without being adopted, and she...
Anaïs in Love – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Scott Wilson March 7, 2022 Reviews Fans of young women running in films, this one is for you. Like other roles bringing this sprinting trope to the fore, Anaïs in Love follows an impulsive spirit who darts between people and places without a...
The Justice of Bunny King – Review Scott Wilson February 12, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in August 2021 as part of our EIFF coverage. "We’re trying to help you". That’s what Bunny King keeps getting told, while she tries to win back her kids after they are...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #6 – Nomadland Scott Wilson December 31, 2021 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actress. Winning over 100 awards in total, Nomadland’s success at the Oscars may have seemed, ultimately, inevitable, but there was still a surge of warranted joy when...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #7 – C’mon C’mon Scott Wilson December 31, 2021 Analysis, Features, Top 10 In a conversation with musician David Byrne, director Mike Mills said it’s his natural urge to make every film feel like the chorus of a song. Choruses are often the zeniths of a song. A wondrous combination...
The Velvet Underground – Review Scott Wilson October 15, 2021 Reviews Almost fifty years since The Velvet Underground went their separate ways, their legacy only grows. Now understood as pivotal in pushing the boundaries of music at the time, Todd Haynes’ documentary tells the...
Oasis: Knebworth 1996 – Review Scott Wilson September 22, 2021 Reviews Some might say Oasis performing to 250,000 people across a weekend in the summer of ‘96 was the definitive musical moment of the decade. Oasis: Knebworth 1996 makes it hard to disagree. At the heart of the...
Stop-Zemlia – EIFF 2021 Review Scott Wilson August 25, 2021 Reviews Everything feels significant the first time it happens. That’s what makes high school such a momentous time, even if nothing particularly exciting is happening. Stop-Zemlia follows a class in the lead up to...
Mad God – EIFF 2021 Review Scott Wilson August 24, 2021 Reviews Stop-motion animation has taken Wallace and Gromit to the moon and given us the eternal love of Jack and Sally. Its limitations are only the imagination, able to create something impossible by any other means....
Pig – EIFF 2021 Review Scott Wilson August 20, 2021 Reviews Robin Feld is battered and bruised. His lone companion in the woods where he lives is a truffle-foraging pig, and she’s been kidnapped by assailants who left Robin bloody on the floor. Without pause – or a...
Spiral – Review Scott Wilson May 22, 2021 Reviews With Jigsaw, the Saw series had a villain who was as creative as he was driven by a twisted sense of morality. He was a character able to shock with both violence (needle pit!) and dramatic flair (the corpse...
Undergods – Review Scott Wilson May 17, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. If a society is constructed by the stories it tells, the world in Undergods is an unsettling and sparse one,...