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Film Festival
Film Review – Black Dog (2023)
This film is legitimately just two bros in a car having an amazing time. Black Dog follows Nathan (Jamie Flatters), a foster kid who wants to travel to a foreign country with a foreign language—Scotland—to…
2024 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Janey (2024)
Whether you recognize her name or not, for many Scottish people, Janey Godley’s comedy is a familiar presence. From watching her at the fringe to viewing her COVID videos featuring Nicola Sturgeon, she is vociferous,…
Pigeon Shrine Frightfest Glasgow – Film Review – Wake Up (2023)
This energetic satirical slasher from the talented RKSS collective wrings occasional moments of sadistic brilliance from its tired Most Dangerous Game premise. A group of Gen Z Insta activists in origami animal masks target a…
2024 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Cold (2023)
The idea of a mystery taking place across 2-time frames is a great concept. Seeing the mystery of the past unfold at the same time as the mystery of the present can be thrilling. Cold…
2024 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Lousy Carter (2024)
Lousy Carter earns its title. It’s a cynical, depressing outing that, like its anti-hero protagonist, fundamentally lacks self-awareness. Its goal of exploring how a hapless figure can still find some kind of purpose in life…
Pigeon Shrine Halloween Frightfest Film Review – The Waterhouse (2023)
Frustratingly clumsy chamber piece that attempts to infuse the heist gone wrong blueprint with Greek mythology and psychological horror. A trio of art thieves, Eric, Matt, and Paul, rendezvous at an oceanside hideout after stealing…
Grimmfest 2023 – Film Review – 8 Found Dead (2023)
A dirty intergenerational war of nerves that uses timeline gymnastics and abrasive humour to deconstruct the rental invasion subgenre. A quartet of egotistical influencers, actors, and Insta-partners head off to a desert Airbnb where one…
Grimmfest 2023 – Film Review – AUXILIO – The Power of Sin (2023)
Hallucinatory Nunsplotation movie from Argentina that harnesses the hypocrisy and misogynistic cruelty of Catholicism to propel its aggressive feminist agenda. It’s 1931 and Argentina is about to enter a lengthy period of political corruption at…
PIGEON SHRINE FRIGHTFEST 2023 – Film Review – Lore (2023)
Smart and stylish old-school horror anthology from the UK that offers ghosties, gore, and guffaws with excellent casting and slick storytelling. Master of the sinister smile Richard Brake welcomes a likable foursome of scare seekers…
Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 – Film Review – Devils (2023)
Spiteful snuff movie serial killer thriller from South Korea, of course, featuring superb dual lead performances and an insane twist you will never see coming. Tenacious detective Jae-hwan is hell-bent on bringing day-glow online murder…
Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 – Film Review – Mami Wata (2023)
A small West African community becomes emersed in a power struggle between entrenched folklore and social progression. This stunningly shot and extraordinarily intimate fantasy thriller about a mermaid water deity exudes depth and meaning while…
Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 – Film Review – Vincent Must Die (2023)
Vincent is just an ordinary guy doing an ordinary job who finds himself in an extraordinary situation. Without warning, members of the general populous have become hellbent on snuffing him out. This quirky, sometimes queasy,…
Fantasia International film Festival 2023 – Film Review – Lovely, Dark And Deep (2023)
Troubled park ranger Lennon has just secured her dream job in the ruggedly beautiful back-country. Shrouded in rumours of obsessive behaviour triggered by a family disappearance, she abuses her isolated station to launch a personal…