Glasgow 2015: ‘Phoenix’ review
Advertisements ★★★★☆ In Hiroshi Teshigahara’s mysterious and metaphysical The Face of Another (1966), notions of identity both personal and national are explored through the...
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11 March 2023
#GFF 2023: Out of Darkness review
★★★☆☆ Set approximately 45,000 years ago, when our ancestors Homo sapiens were making incursions into the lands of the Neanderthals, British director Andrew Cumming’s horror thriller Out of Darkness (formerly The Origin) depicts a small tribe coming up against a malefic entity in unknown and inhospitable environs.
6 March 2021
Glasgow 2021: City Hall review
Advertisements ★★★★★ “The concept of resilience is a powerful one.” Channelling the fortitude and resolve with which his beloved city of Boston recovered from...
4 March 2021
Glasgow 2021: Wildland review
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ 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...
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Glasgow 2015: ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ review
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Meditations on art, mortality and performance are the lofty thematics explored in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), a discursive drama from French...
Glasgow 2015: ‘Wild Tales’ review
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ One of this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award hopefuls, Argentinian director Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales (2014) is an exuberant, obsidian-black...
Glasgow 2015: ‘New Girlfriend’ review
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Another year, another film from prolific French director and festival regular François Ozon. After the (intentional) inscrutability of the lead in Jeune...
Glasgow 2015: ‘Red Army’ review
Advertisements ★★★★☆ If you thought ice hockey was just Canadians and punch-ups, then Gabe Polsky’s documentary Red Army (2014) may come as a cool...
Glasgow 2015: ‘Catch Me Daddy’ review
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ If Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant (2013) was a fairytale set in ‘It’s grim up north’ territory, this year’s Glasgow Film Festival...
Glasgow 2015: ‘Black Coal, Thin Ice’ review
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Cowardice, treachery and bloody murder coalesce in director Diao Yinan’s Golden Bear-winning Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014), a tonally erratic noir that blends the...
Glasgow 2015: ‘While We’re Young’ review
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Malaise of various kinds has manifested itself in the work of American director Noah Baumbach. In 2012, the much adored Frances Ha...