A Brixton Tale – Review Rafaela Sales Ross September 16, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Working-class boy falls in love with high-bred girl, a premise as old as time. In A Brixton Tale, they are...
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...
Blanco en Blanco – Review Carmen Paddock June 29, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in March 2020 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Very little happens over the course of Blanco en Blanco (White on White), and yet each series of vignettes...
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...
The Mauritanian – Review Rafaela Sales Ross April 1, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Another film to be added to the 9/11 true story trope, The Mauritanian follows the legal proceedings to...
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time – Review Rafaela Sales Ross March 19, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. “I wanted this so badly, I made it all up”, Márta (Natasa Stork) tells her therapist. The renowned...
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...
Heather Young Discusses Murmur Rafaela Sales Ross February 28, 2021 Features, Interview Screening at this year's Glasgow Film Festival, Heather Young's first feature Murmur is a bleak portrait of loneliness. The director sat down with us to discuss her creative process, touring digital festivals...
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...