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...