BFI Flare 2023 Film Review – Big Boys (2023)
Jamie’s 14 years old. We never see him at school, but it’s not much of a stretch to imagine that...
Film Festivals
Alongside our in-depth reviews from some of the world’s biggest film festivals, you’ll also find the latest film news, exclusive features, trailers, interviews, and everything in between. We cover festivals from across the globe, including the Glasgow Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Fantasia International Film Festival, and FrightFest, bringing you the latest from the world of cinema all year round.
FrightFest Glasgow Review – Hunt Her Kill Her (2022)
Nightshift janitor Karen is targeted by a vicious gang of masked marauders in this nasty game of cat-and-mouse misogyny. Struggling...
Frightfest Glasgow – Film Review – Pensive (2023)
Pensive is a woodland maniac goes ballistic during a hedonistic rave in this refreshingly off-kilter slasher from Lithuania. A class...
Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Review – Blackberry (2023)
In Alien: Covenant, Michael Fassbender's character David said, "Big things have small beginnings." Aliens fans know what he was talking...
Review – The Ordinaries (2022)
Do you ever wish you could fit in somewhere other than where you are now? Sophie Linnenbaum's inventive feature debut,...
Review – The End Of Sex (2022)
It doesn’t seem so long ago that the question was “can men and women be friends without sex getting in...
Review – A Little Prayer (2023)
It’s a peaceful, residential road. Lots of trees, grass and well-tended family homes. The quiet is disturbed some mornings by...
Slamdance Festival 2023 film Review – Sweetheart Deal
Hideously uncomfortable yet highly nuanced documentary filmed at the surface zero of acute opiate abuse, sexual exploitation, and toxic co-dependency...
Review – Drift (2023)
The incoming tide dissolves a pair of solitary footprints in the sand in just seconds. And for Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo)...
Review – You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
It’s ten years since Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus combined their talents for Enough Said, a mature rom-com that captured...
Review – Eileen (2023)
There’s an inescapable familiarity in the set-up for William Oldroyd’s Eileen. Christmas is just around the corner and the quiet,...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 Review – Cat Person (2023)
Back in 2017, a New Yorker short story became an overnight viral sensation. Cat Person became the magazine’s most-read piece...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 Review – Rye Lane (2023)
The meet cute takes place in a loo. Not that they can see each other: that comes later when she...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 Review – Run, Rabbit, Run (2023)
In case you’re wondering, a white rabbit signifies a life transformation or new adventures/new experiences. The one in Run, Rabbit,...