Glasgow 2015: Electric Boogaloo review
★★★★☆ From 1979 to 1989, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were cinema’s premier purveyors of low-budget schlock. “It’s hard to say the words ‘Cannon...
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6 March 2021
Glasgow 2021: City Hall review
★★★★★ “The concept of resilience is a powerful one.” Channelling the fortitude and resolve with which his beloved city of Boston recovered from the...
4 March 2021
Glasgow 2021: Wildland review
★★★☆☆ Ostensibly a remake of David Michôd’s outstanding 2010 film Animal Kingdom, Jeanette Nordahl’s Wildland transposes the action of a Melbourne crime family’s nefarious...
4 March 2021
Glasgow 2021: Sweetheart review
★★★☆☆ Whether you’re completely lost or simply taking the scenic route, coming-of-age stories tend to be just as much about the journey as their...
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Glasgow 2015: ‘Clown’ review
★★☆☆☆ Coulrophobia is a fear ripe for exploitation in horror movies, most famously done in Tommy Lee Wallace’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It (1990),...
Glasgow 2015: Ann Hui on new film ‘The Golden Era’
Ann Hui’s voice is an uncommon one in world cinema. Probably the most acclaimed of the Hong Kong New Wave directors, Hui began her...
Glasgow 2015: ‘The Golden Era’ review
★★☆☆☆ Biographic films are always difficult beasts to tame. Filmmakers can often be torn between integrity and dramatic licence in bringing a real life...
Glasgow 2015: Dispatch #1
One of the most interesting things about picking out a viewing schedule at a film festival is the emergence of unexpected trends. Something that...
Glasgow 2015: ‘My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn’
★★★☆☆ Liv Corfixen’s My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (2014) starts from the unfortunate position of being wide open to comparison with another...
Glasgow 2015: ‘The Falling’ review
★★★★☆ Carol Morley’s follow-up to the lauded Dreams of a Life (2011) shares a thematic through line with its predecessor. That documentary investigated the...
Glasgow 2015: ‘Phoenix’ review
★★★★☆ In Hiroshi Teshigahara’s mysterious and metaphysical The Face of Another (1966), notions of identity both personal and national are explored through the story...
