Film Festivals
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FilmGFF19: The Man Who Feels No Pain
Vasan Bala's Indian action-comedy The Man Who Feels No Pain riffs on 80s and 90s action films, not only referencing them but also recreating the feeling of watching them Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
FilmGFF19: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Lean and moody crime thriller set in an isolated militia bunker Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
FilmGFF19: Out of Blue
Carol Morley’s dreamlike noir is full of ambition, but never quite works despite a commendable effort from star Patricia Clarkson Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
FilmGFF19: Killing
Cult director Shin’ya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) returns with this disappointing samurai movie. Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
FilmGenesis
French-Canadian filmmaker Philippe Lesage follows up his knockout debut film The Demons with Genesis, a lyrical and imaginatively structured coming-of-age film concerned with three tender stories of young love Read more »| 27 Feb 2019 -
FilmGFF19: Dragged Across Concrete
Dragged Across Concrete is a sublime action flick – but Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn's right wing cops are not the heroes we need right now Read more »| 26 Feb 2019
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FilmHappy as Lazzaro
Alice Rohrwacher’s drama about a village of peasant farmers cut off from society spills from poetic realism to dreamy fantasy to tell a spellbinding story that’s a potent allegory for the pervasive evils of modern capitalism Read more »| 26 Feb 2019 -
FilmJohn Butler, Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño on Papi Chulo
Papi Chulo is a sweet comedy-drama about an LA weatherman going through an existential crisis. At Glasgow Film Festival we sit down with John Butler, Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño – Papi Chulo's director and co-stars respectively – to discuss the film Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
FilmGFF19: Eighth Grade
Adolescence is hell in this spiky but tender debut from US standup Bo Burnham, which follows a painfully awkward 13-year-old on her last few days of middle school, with high school looming Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
FilmGFF19: Fighting with My Family
Stephen Merchant's wrestling comedy Fighting With My Family sticks close to the underdog formula, but it's a formula that works well Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
FilmThe Sisters Brothers
Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly stars in Jacques Audiard’s nihilistic, beautiful, sweet post-western The Sisters Brothers Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
FilmGFF19: The Vanishing
Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler and Connor Swindells play lighthouse keepers going through psychological turmoil in Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm’s handsome, satisfyingly dour Scottish thriller Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
FilmTransit
In Christian Petzold's inventive adaptation of Anna Seghers' Marseille-set WWII novel, past and present fold in on themselves to draw parallels between the fear and paranoia of Nazi-occupied Europe and the treatment of refugees in Europe today Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
FilmBo Burnham and the Changing Face of Internet Comedy
As Bo Burnham's debut feature film Eighth Grade hits cinemas, we look at how Burnham's comedy has evolved alongside changes in web comedy and the ways in which we interact with the internet Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
FilmGlasgow-set Wild Rose added to Glasgow Film Festival programme
The Glasgow-set comedy-drama starring Jessie Buckley makes it into the Glasgow Film Festival programme as a very late edition. This gala screening will also include a live country set by Buckley at Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry Read more »| 20 Feb 2019