Film Review – The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Hands up if your favourite teacher in the movies is one of the following. The inspirational John Keating (Robin Williams)...
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2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Out Of Blue (2019)
If you fed a robot every script of CSI, NCIS and the like and asked it to come up with...
Film Review – Hannah (2018)
It’s been a long and extremely varied career. So far. From her first appearances in the sixties in the likes...
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Under The Silver Lake (2019)
I left Under the Silver Lake completely scatter-brained. I had no idea what had just happened. Director David Robert Mitchell...
Film review – Serenity (2019)
Winning an Oscar isn’t always everything it’s cracked up to be. For some actors it’s a ticket to the top,...
Film Review – On The Basis Of Sex (2019)
Equal rights campaigner Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become an overnight sensation at over 80. Her biography, Notorious RBG, was published...
Film Review – Cold Pursuit (2019)
When the line between life and art is blurred, the consequences can sometimes be thrilling. The end results of Casey...
Film Review – Instant Family (2019)
You have got to hand it to Mark Wahlberg. Almost three decades after he and the Funky Bunch had their...
Film Review – The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Hands up who thought Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was a brilliant, blazing success? How about Robin...
Film Review – Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
Marvel - and, by extension, Disney - are taking over the world. We know it, they know it and there...
Film Review – ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ (2019)
★★★★ 1/2 Barry Jenkins’s moving ‘Moonlight’ is equal parts unconventional, tragic and beguiling. Adapted from James Baldwin’s novel of the...
Film Review – ‘Boy Erased’ (2019)
Delving into the controversial world of gay conversion therapy and based on the acclaimed memoir, writer/director/actor Joel Edgerton’s ‘Boy Erased’...
Film Review – ‘Alita: Battle Angel’
An impressive visual spectacle held back somewhat by an overfamiliar story, ‘Alita’ is nonetheless a game-changing marvel, filled with seamless...
Film Review – Boy Erased (2019)
After its screening at Toronto last year, we’re already familiar with the subject of Joel Edgerton’s sophomore as a director....