Cineskinny: Film Reviews
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FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Catch Me Daddy
Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's Catch Me Daddy opens to a creation myth recited with childlike naivety over images of a windswept, almost primeval landscape. Thou... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: The New Girlfriend
Francois Ozon's favourite subject is the fluidity of sexual identity and desire. He's been playing with this theme since early short The Summer Dress ri... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Appropriate Behaviour
"That was a present," protests Shirin (writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan) when her girlfriend returns a mysterious box to her amidst an acrimonious break-... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
ReviewsSorcerer
A financial flop lost in the Star Wars summer of 1977, William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, long plagued by legal problems regarding distribution in its comple... Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
ReviewsThe Tale of Iya
Iya is a place, not a person, although it comes to be one over a 169 minute running time which never overstays its welcome. This is the astonishing second fi... Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
ReviewsLocke
If the close-up is cinema’s most powerful tool, not to be overused, tell director Steven Knight, who focuses intently of the face of Tom Hardy in this ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014
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ReviewsThe Golden Dream
The Golden Dream is the debut feature by Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez, previously a cinematographer and camera operator on 21 Grams and The Con... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsMistaken for Strangers
On the surface, Mistaken for Strangers would seem to be a standard tour rockumentary, in this case following Ohio indie outfit The National during the mainst... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsLove Is Not What It Used to Be (El amor no es lo que era)
In one Spanish city, three couples of varying ages undergo differing experiences of modern love: elderly former lovers meet again after years apart, a middle... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsThe Zero Theorem
In the vein of Spike Jonze’s Her, Terry Gilliam’s latest sci-fi, like all the best films in that genre, puts humanity under a microscope lens and... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsMystery Road
Teetotal detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pederson) returns to his hometown in the Australian Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl. Forced to endure bo... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsVioleta Went To Heaven
Violeta Went To Heaven is Andrés Wood’s impassioned and impressionistic cinematic portrait of Chilean legend Violeta Parra &ndash... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsCannibal
“Women: can't live with ‘em, can't eat ‘em” would make an apt, if crass, tagline for this formally brilliant pseudo-horror of male an... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsThese Birds Walk
Near the middle of These Birds Walk, a documentary about a foundation for runaways and orphans in Karachi, Pakistan, two young boys get into a lengthy scrap ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsThe Heart of Bruno Wizard
Cultural histories are inevitably filled with the non-descript attempts by the unlucky, untalented and generally pathetic to grasp the attention/fame/securit... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014