2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Aurora (2019)
A Finnish rom-com with a lot of heart, Aurora tackles tough issues of immigration, racism and alcohol abuse whilst maintaining...
Film Festivals
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Film Review – The Quietude (2018)
Sometimes It's good going into a film knowing very little about it with low expectations. In Pablo Trapero's last film,...
Sundance London 2019 Film Review – The Farewell (2019)
Lulu Wang’s The Farewell opens with disarming honesty. The film, we’re told, is “based on an actual lie”, immediately posing...
Sundance London 2019 Film Review – Corporate Animals (2019)
Hands up if you’ve ever been on one of those hideous Outward Bound type team building courses. If you have,...
Sundance London 2019 Film Review – The Nightingale (2018)
Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut, The Babadook, announced the arrival of a formidable talent, paving the way for some of the...
Sundance London 2019 Film Review – Animals (2019)
And so it’s that time of year again: the heat is slowly unleashing its power upon us and now begins...
Film Review – Incredible Violence (2018)
Made on behalf of troubled independent filmmakers the world over, G Patrick Condon’s debut feature Incredible Violence is a bizarre...
Film Review – Luz (2018)
Entrancing and elusive, Tilman Singer’s debut feature film Luz was the stand-out film of Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn festival 2019....
Film Review – Tous le Dieux du Ciel (2018)
Tous le Dieux du Ciel (All the Gods in the Sky), from French director Quarxx, is an incredibly bold piece...
Film Review – Cities Of Last Things (2018)
I remember a friend said to me one time "only women get affected emotionally in relationships". How wrong she was,...
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
In the middle of the night, rapid firing gunshots can be heard at a distance. The opening of writer-director Henry...
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Feeling Of Being Watched (2018)
Documentary filmmaker Assia Boundaoui delivers a deeply personal, unsettling account of the scarcely documented surveillance placed upon American-Arab communities. Boundaoui...
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – The Man Who Feels No Pain (2019)
Vasan Bala’s The Man Who Feels No Pain is one of the films up for the audience award at this...
2019 Glasgow Film Festival – Keep Going (2018)
Director Joachim Lafosse transforms Laurent Mauvignier's novel into a feast for the senses as he depicts a mother and son's...