Film Festivals
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FilmFive to see at GFF, 21 Feb: Louder than Bombs
Today, Glasgow Film Festival offers up a moving family drama (Louder than Bombs), an anime buddy-movie (The Boy and the Beast) and the perfect Sunday matinee film (The Adventures of Robin Hood) Read more »| 21 Feb 2016 -
FilmFive to see at GFF, 20 Feb: Miles Davis and David Bowie
Two great music films screening today at Glasgow Film Festival: an oldie (DA Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust concert film) and a mint fresh one (Don Cheadle's ta... Read more »| 20 Feb 2016 -
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Office
Hong Kong action maestro Johnnie To delivers a stylish 3D musical set around the 2008 financial crash. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
FilmMan vs. Snake: The Long & Twisted Tale of Nibbler
Empathetic doc following several gaming misfits as they try to score one billion points on an obscure arcade game. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
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Time Out of Mind
Richard Gere plays a homeless New Yorker in this absorbing tale of urban poverty. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
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Film on Film: Five great movies about movies
Inspired by critic Kent Jones' Hitchcock/Truffaut, we pay tribute to those great ouroboroi of cinema: films about film. Below are five of the best, from a do... Read more »| 19 Feb 2016
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FilmFive to see at GFF, 19 Feb: Goodnight Mommy
What do the cinema gods offer up today at GFF? There's a Palme d'Or winner (Dheepan), a new film from a master filmmaker (Peter Greenaway), a great comeback ... Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
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Arabian Nights and five more alternative trilogies
Superhero movies don't have the monopoly on trilogies, as Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes's three-part take on the One Thousand and One Nights tales attests. He... Read more »| 18 Feb 2016 -
FilmFive to see at GFF, 18 Feb: High-Rise
After last night's opening gala, Hail, Caesar, GFF kicks off proper with the new film from Ben Wheatley and the opportunity to discover a filmmaker who was o... Read more »| 18 Feb 2016 -
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Five underrated directorial debuts by actors
Inspired by Don Cheadle's upcoming directorial debut, Miles Ahead, we look back at five underrated first features by talented actors who could quite easily g... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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From Afar
First time director Lorenzo Vigas's From Afar is a gritty and cinematic study in desire and repression, set on the mean streets of Caracas, Venezuela From A... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Green Room
Punk v Nazi thriller from the mind that brought you Blue Ruin Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to Blue Ruin, trades the latter’s revenge ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Weepah Way for Now
Delightful, full-of-life drama about two sisters, played by real life siblings AJ and Aly Michalka. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Cain's Children
A compelling documentary suggesting that capitalism has proved just as oppressive to the people of Eastern Europe as communism. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Speed Sisters
Lively doc following five female drag racers in Palestine. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016