Really Good Rejects – SXSW Review Carmen Paddock April 7, 2022 Reviews The luthier’s craft can seem one from another age, the archaic title passed down despite evolving instruments and musical styles. In today’s music industry, Reuben Cox is one of the most respected makers...
Zero Fucks Given – Review Carmen Paddock April 3, 2022 Reviews Halfway through Zero Fucks Given, the tale of a budget airline flight attendant and her colleagues, the team are taken out for a coaching day. Here, they run emergency and first aid drills over and over,...
True Things – Review Carmen Paddock April 2, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in March 2022 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Harry Wootliff’s sophomore feature is poised between erotic psychodrama and thoroughly British kitchen sink...
On the Divide – Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 Review Sophie Maxwell March 29, 2022 Reviews In the small city of McAllen, Texas, a human rights battle is waged in close quarters. On the Divide follows Denisse, Rey, and Mercedes, three people whose lives have been touched deeply by the politics of...
Bodies Bodies Bodies – SXSW 2022 Review Weiting Liu March 29, 2022 Reviews Interweaving body horror and psychological warfare, Dutch actor-turned-director Halina Reijn’s dramedy slasher Bodies Bodies Bodies stirred up the festival crowd at this month’s SXSW. The film’s...
The Worst Person in the World – Review Alysha Prasad March 25, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. A film that’s told in twelve parts, as well as a prologue and an epilogue, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person...
Silence Heard Loud – Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 Review Sophie Maxwell March 17, 2022 Reviews Premiering at London's Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is Anna Konik's self-described 'art documentary', Silence Heard Loud. Konik's film gives voice to seven people living in the UK as asylum seekers....
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,...
Wake Up Punk – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Carmen Paddock March 17, 2022 Reviews In 2016, 40 years after London’s punk scene took off, John Corré burned £5 million worth of memorabilia - largely from the collections of his parents Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, who owned the...
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...
Olga – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Carmen Paddock March 14, 2022 Reviews Elie Grappe’s sports and politics drama, set against the 2013-2014 Maidan Uprising, skilfully captures societal unrest through the eyes of a youngster with ambitions she tries - and fails - to separate from...
Love, Life and Goldfish – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Carmen Paddock March 14, 2022 Reviews The story is timeless even if the specifics are new. A young man, entitled, the world at his feet, has his eyes on investment banking supremacy. However, in his hubris he makes a crucial error and is banished...
Turning Red – Review Phil W. Bayles March 12, 2022 Reviews With Turning Red, Pixar continues its recent trend of allowing diverse voices within the studio to tell new (and clearly very personal) stories. Directed by Domee Shi, who also made the delightful short Bao,...
Catch the Fair One – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Carmen Paddock March 12, 2022 Reviews Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, Wladyka’s drama begins in stress and hopelessness and then drives this terrifying mood to the maximum. Kaylee (Kali Reis) is a former boxer whose sister vanished...