Cineskinny: Film Opinion
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OpinionFive to see at GFF, 25 Feb: Wild at Heart & more
Today at Glasgow Film Festival, join Nic Cage and Laura Dern on the run in Wild at Heart and Kate Dickie and Paul Higgins in a cave in Couple in a Hole, plus... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
OpinionFive to see at GFF, 24 Feb: Surprise Film & More
Today's Glasgow Film Festival offers up the thrill of Speed Sisters, the chill of The Clan and the mystery of what will be this year's Surprise Film... Spee... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
Opinion
Five to see at GFF, 23 Feb: Green Room & more
Today (23 Feb) at Glasgow Film Festival offers up a punk v Nazi siege thriller (Green Room), a love letter to a city (I Am Belfast) and Aleksandr Sokurov's l... Read more »| 22 Feb 2016 -
OpinionFive to see at GFF, 22 Feb: Network & Demolition
Today's Glasgow Film Festival highlights include Jake Gyllenhaal in full quirk mode (Demolition), Patricio Guzmán bringing beauty and humanity to... Read more »| 21 Feb 2016 -
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Five 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 -
Opinion
Five 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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Opinion
Time Out of Mind
Richard Gere plays a homeless New Yorker in this absorbing tale of urban poverty. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
Opinion
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 -
OpinionFive 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 -
Opinion
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 -
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Five 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 -
Opinion
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 -
Festivals
Patrick Stewart as a neo-nazi & 5 more unlikely roles
Lovable thespian and king of Twitter Patrick Stewart as a violent white supremacist? Really? This wrinkle of film casting in Jeremy Saulnier’s upcoming... Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Laura Dern: David Lynch's favourite collaborator
Inspired by Glasgow Film Festival's upcoming screening of David Lynch's Wild at Heart at St Luke's – complete with an Elvis tribute – we look bac... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: FrightFest
Zombies, dead bastards, killers, demons, beasties, Katie Isabelle, rage monkeys... that'll be your FrightFest, then. Read more »| 04 Mar 2015