Author Scott Wilson

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. France’s low age of consent and wave after wave of abuse emanating from its artistic community are...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. As Aubrey Plaza’s Allison sits down to write in a luxurious cabin by a foggy lake, Black Bear introduces its...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Away from Jacob’s (Steven Yeun) farmland, shaded by trees and dampened by patches of water, minari – an...

Comparisons to Before Sunrise are inevitable when two protagonists spend an evening wandering a city contemplating life. While Linklater’s trilogy is a more polished piece of work, Our Midnight doesn’t...

If a society is constructed by the stories it tells, the world in Undergods is an unsettling and sparse one, with humour dryer than the detritus strewn across this barren and brutalist land. With a colour...

The first feature documentary entirely in Gaelic, Iorram (Boat Song) is a visually poetic documentation of Outer Hebridean fishing community culture. Rediscovered and restored audio recordings dating back to...

There’s a little too much going on in Victim(s), a drama based on the true events surrounding a teenage boy stabbing three classmates, killing one in the process, supposedly over a new girl at school....

What happened is never as interesting as why it mattered. Some biopics, such as the recent Schemers, are like Wikipedia pages when they should be novels. Creation Stories goes some way to rectifying this. A...

Tae-il (Hong Isaac) reconnects with Ji-won (Jang Haeun), former bandmate and now teacher at a music school. Her devotion is to her teenage pupils, four of whom have started a metal band, hoping to win a local...

This delightfully creepy Indonesian horror has real drama and depth. Beneath the surface of the familiar setting (a group of people gather in a remote location, no working telephone) is the weight of...

Released less than a month before the UK entered lockdown, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a memory from the Before Times. Not only is it about so much of what has been taken from us this year, but the film...

Mercifully, an artificial intelligence-led revolt against humanity didn’t happen in 2020. If iHuman is to be believed, it’s not a matter of if, but when. A documentary which functions as much as a horror...

Everyone growing up in a nothing town dreams of making something of it. For director Dave McLean, it was throwing a disco to impress a girl, which led to gig after gig, booking the likes of Simple Minds, The...

Disney’s 1994 The Lion King is full of life, death, and the harmony in between. At a tight 89 minutes, it never runs out of steam, and its colour palette is as vibrant as its song book. Part of the "Big...

What, really, can be called authentic in a time of social media personas and rampant reality television? For Kurt Kunkle, it’s live-streaming The Lesson, a twisted mission acted out as a Spree driver, a taxi...