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,...
Spring Blossom – Review Scott Wilson April 24, 2021 Reviews 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...
Black Bear – Review Scott Wilson April 22, 2021 Reviews 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...
Minari – Review Scott Wilson April 1, 2021 Reviews 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...
Our Midnight – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review Scott Wilson March 4, 2021 Reviews 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...
Iorram (Boat Song) – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review Scott Wilson February 28, 2021 Reviews 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...
Victim(s) – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review Scott Wilson February 28, 2021 Reviews 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....
Creation Stories – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review Scott Wilson February 24, 2021 Reviews 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...
Da Capo – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review Scott Wilson February 21, 2021 Reviews 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...
The Queen of Black Magic – Review Scott Wilson January 29, 2021 Reviews 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...