By Emily Murray This year’s Glasgow Film Festival is opening on a high with the UK premiere of writer/director Lee Isaac Chung’s tender and heartfelt drama Minari, a film that easily sweeps you away. Partly inspired by Chung’s own upbringing, … Continue reading Minari – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review
By Emily Murray Reading the premise for the latest film from Danish writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen, you would be forgiven for expecting a standard revenge thriller. Military veteran Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) sets out to seek vengeance on a biker gang, … Continue reading Riders of Justice – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review
by Jordan King Having premiered at the Sundance film festival in 2019 to mixed reviews, writer-director Debra Eisenstadt’s Blush – formerly, perhaps more aptly, entitled Imaginary Order – has finally found its way onto British shores. Starring The Goldbergs and … Continue reading Blush – Review
by Leoni Horton t’s a rare treat when a film-maker takes creative initiative with narrative structure, for such previous experimentation has worked to redefine how audiences engage with film. Christopher Nolan made radical waves with Memento through reversing the typical … Continue reading Black Bear – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review
by Charlotte Sometimes It’s easy to forget that a protagonist doesn’t have to be the good guy/gal. All that’s required to be a protagonist is to be the film’s lead character, a moral compass pointing in the direction of good … Continue reading I Care A Lot – Review
While a film about a deadly virus rampaging through the UK’s society might not seem like the perfect choice of subject matter at present, the film adaptation of School’s Out Forever by Scott K Andrews isn’t about our current climate, … Continue reading School’s Out Forever – Review
