Riders of Justice – Review Rafaela Sales Ross July 22, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Coincidences are thoroughly dissected in Riders of Justice, a thriller that puts to the test all the...
There Is No Evil – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross February 21, 2021 Reviews In 2017, director Mohammad Rasoulof had his passport seized by the Iranian government after screening his award-winning film A Man of Integrity in Cannes. Accused of “spreading propaganda” against the...
Short of the Week – Listen Henry Gatrell January 16, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/196593911 Listen presents several different issues through a singular conflict: a petrified mother, trapped in a violent relationship looking for protection from the police; a...
White God – LFF Review Danielle Davenport October 10, 2014 Reviews White God is an intrepid and incisive thriller. Blisteringly beautiful, brutal and bizarre, it achieves the intimacy and meticulousness essential to crystallize unspoken communication and potent...
A Girl At My Door – LFF Review Danielle Davenport October 2, 2014 Reviews A Girl At My Door lingers in the mind. The film is intelligent and enigmatic as it charts shifting equilibriums, a beautiful landscape and its convincingly flawed inhabitants. The impact is heightened by an...
El Niño – LFF Review Danielle Davenport September 30, 2014 Reviews El Niño possesses all the ingredients for an efficacious and addictive thriller. The eye-catching start - exploiting transit sights and sounds - ratchets up the tension and is followed by some action-packed...
The Wind Rises – Review Christopher Preston May 11, 2014 Reviews 4 Comments Hayao Miyazaki’s films have always been bathwater cinema; warm and comforting and so enchantingly illustrated that we never truly want to leave them. The grief of being hoisted out of The Wind Rises,...