Based on a novel by Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture is an Irish drama with an ensemble cast and the final film set during the Second World War to be reviewed from the Glasgow Film Festival. Roseanne McNulty (Vanessa Redgrave) is an old woman who has been locked in a mental hospital for 50 years, accused of […]
Funded by the BBC and Creative England, The Levelling was made a part of the iFeatures scheme – helping first-time directors make low budget feature length films -and at the Glasgow Film Festival competed for the Audience Awards. Set after the impact of the 2014 Somerset Floods, veterinary student Clover (Game of Thrones’ Ellie Kendrick) returns to her family farm […]
Paradise is a Russian-German co-production about the Holocaust, which came into the Glasgow Film Festival winning the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival; it was Russia’s nomination for the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards. In 1942 Olga (Yuliya Vysotskaya) was a Russian-emigrant who fought for the French Resistance and was arrested by […]
“I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.” – Tim Burton The giant ape has been a film icon since the 1930s and continues to be the subject of countless films, publications and comic books. He is one of the most recognized […]
We like to have control over most things in our lives. You name it, if we could control it, we would. And when we come across things we have absolutely no control over, we fuss and fret like toddlers throwing tantrums. Why? Because we’re convinced that if we can control it, it works best for […]
What is really important in life? What if today was your last, how would you act differently? These considerations make for a confronting opening to the new teen drama, Before I Fall. Can this profound prologue be backed up with similar content throughout the film? These thoughtful questions are shared by Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch), who is in […]
Logan, directed by James Mangold, marks star Hugh Jackman’s final turn as The Wolverine and the character’s swan song does not disappoint. A world-weary Logan, a feeble and ailing Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and a young mutant named Laura (Dafne Keen) take a brutal, no holds barred road trip through hell that breaks the mold […]
Gurinder Chadha, best known as the writer and director of Bend it Like Beckham, is known for bringing her unique British-Asian perspective to the stories she tells, and she masterfully juggles this with historical accuracy and a touching love story in period drama Viceroy’s House. The film follows Lord Mountbatten and his family through the last months […]
Playing as a part of the Nerdvana section of the Glasgow Film Festival, Headshot is a brutal martial arts movie that appealed to a young male audience and one of the most adrenaline-pumping films at the festival. In a small fishing town in Indonesia an unconscious man (Iko Uwais) washes up on the beach and […]
Disney’s latest smash hit Moana will soon be available on DVD and Blu-ray, and you’ll be glad to know it absolutely holds up watching it a second time, and even a third. Auli’i Cravalho is just as charming and lovely as Moana, daughter of a Pasifika chief, who is chosen by the ocean to go […]
