Film Festivals
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FilmGlasgow Film Festival reveals its lineup for 2023
Glasgow’s annual celebration of cinema will be back for its 19th edition with 123 features including the new film from We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor and debuts features from exciting Glasgow talents like Adura Onashile and James Price Read more »| 25 Jan 2023 -
FestivalsMandibles
Quentin Dupeuix is back and on surreal form with Mandibles, which begins as an inescapably kooky buddy-comedy but blossoms brilliantly into a humanistic celebration of friendship Read more »| 04 Nov 2022 -
FilmFrench Film Festival UK 2022: Five films to see
French Film Festival UK is back once again with a strong lineup of classic and contemporary Francophone cinema. We talk you through the highlights Read more »| 04 Nov 2022 -
FilmLFF 2022: Living
This remake of Akira Kurosawa's meaning-of-life classic Ikiru has wonderful elements – Bill Nighy's performance, Jamie Ramsay's cinematography – but it's let down by its lacklustre final act Read more »| 25 Oct 2022 -
FilmWomen Talking
Sarah Polley returns with an uncompromising drama in which a group of women discuss the endemic sexual violence within their Mennonite religious colony. Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley are among the excellent cast Read more »| 25 Oct 2022 -
FilmGuillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Forget Disney's recent live-action Pinocchio – this gothic animation from Guillermo del Toro is a fantastical and heartfelt reimagining of Carlo Collodi's classic fairytale Read more »| 24 Oct 2022
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FilmGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson follows up Knives Out with another star-studded whodunit and the results are an exercise in ridiculousness, wholly embraced by the game cast Read more »| 24 Oct 2022 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2023: First details revealed
Lee Grant's documentaries will be celebrated at Glasgow Film Festival 2023; there's also a focus on Spain, and a retrospective celebrating women taking charge Read more »| 24 Oct 2022 -
FilmLFF 2022: She Said
The reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal are the subject of this straightforwardly told drama that stumbles under the weight of its capital 'I' importance Read more »| 24 Oct 2022 -
FilmScotland Loves Anime: 2022 Preview
Scotland Loves Anime, the UK's longest running film festival dedicated to Japanese animation, is back with another sparkling lineup featuring trips into the future, a bombastic rock opera, a few coming-of-age numbers and a deep dive into digital realms Read more »| 11 Oct 2022 -
FilmAlcarràs
Alcarràs, Carla Simón's Golden Bear winner, is a powerful and nostalgic portrait of a family of peach farmers in rural Catalonia Read more »| 07 Oct 2022 -
FilmLFF 2022: The Eternal Daughter
Two Tilda Swintons for the price of one in Joanna Hogg's curious ghost story, centering on Swinton playing a mother and daughter struggling to find a connection Read more »| 07 Oct 2022 -
FilmTake One Action returns for its 15th edition
Take One Action, Scotland's festival for social change, is back for its 15th edition. The festival is more compact this year but it's as radical and hopeful for our future as ever. We caught up with festival programmer Xuanlin Tham to find out more Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
FilmGlasgow Youth Film Festival returns for 2022
GYFF, the innovative festival curated by young people from Glasgow, returns with a mix of old films and mint fresh ones, such as the new comedic murder mystery See How They Run, which opens the festival Read more »| 18 Aug 2022 -
FilmEIFF 2022: It Is in Us All
It Is in Us All offers a dark atmosphere that's well constructed, but its inconsistent narrative keeps the film from being an engaging experience Read more »| 15 Aug 2022