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NewsHereditary director returns with Swedish folk horror Midsommar
Ari Aster gave us the scariest film of 2018 with Hereditary. Could Midsommar, his new folk horror set at a Swedish festival, take the same title in 2019? Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
FilmFull Andrea Arnold retrospective at GFT
The Glasgow cinema crown the British filmmaker Andrea Arnold their newest CineMaster with a full retrospective of her features throughout March Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
NewsGreen Book's Oscar win is a catastrophe of bad taste
The glib race-relations drama joins the likes of Crash, Argo and Driving Miss Daisy on the long list of mediocre films to win Best Picture Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsGlasgow-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 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival announce 2019 programme
The Green Fog, Guy Maddin’s riff on Vertigo, and TERROR NULLIUS, Soda_Jerk’s remix of Australian film history, are among the highlights of Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 12th edition Read more »| 07 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival’s Industry Focus programme announced
Amma Asante, Alice Lowe, Sacha Polak, Vicky Knight, Hope Dickson Leach and Claire Pijman are among the guests sharing insights and taking part in discussions during GFF19's three-day industry event Read more »| 05 Feb 2019
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NewsJohnny Flynn to play David Bowie in biopic Stardust
Singer and actor Johnny Flynn, who starred in British thriller Beast and Glasgow-set comedy Lovesick, will play David Bowie in biopic Stardust; Bowie's son, Duncan Jones, criticised the project Read more »| 01 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival announce 2019 line-up
Pop-up screenings of Fight Club, The Matrix and Blair Witch Project are on the cards at the 15th Glasgow Film Festival, as well as visits from actors and filmmakers like Michael Palin, Carol Morley, Alice Lowe and Simon Amstell Read more »| 23 Jan 2019 -
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Watch trailer for Wild Rose, Glasgow's answer to A Star Is Born
Jessie Buckley stars as a Glasgow pub singer with dreams of Nashville in the knockout comedy-drama Wild Rose Read more »| 23 Jan 2019 -
NewsOscar nominations betray #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite
Two years on from Moonlight’s landmark Best Picture win, 2019’s Best Picture contenders like Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody are looking rather retrograde, while once again female filmmakers are ignored Read more »| 22 Jan 2019 -
FestivalsBo Burnham brings Eighth Grade to Glasgow Film Festival
The US stand-up star is coming to Glasgow Film Festival to present Eighth Grade, his tender and funny first feature film about a shy young girl trying to survive middle school Read more »| 18 Jan 2019 -
NewsJohn Wick: Chapter 3 trailer - Keanu Reeves is back
Things get even more hairy for Keanu Reeves’ expert-assassin in the wild first trailer for the third John Wick movie, titled John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Read more »| 17 Jan 2019 -
NewsWatch the first trailer for the Robert Pattinson-starring High Life
The great Claire Denis ventures into sci-fi with this space-bound film starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and Mia Goth Read more »| 16 Jan 2019 -
NewsBill Murray reunites with his Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola
Fifteen years after the brilliant bittersweet drama Lost in Translation, Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola will work together on a new movie, called On the Rocks Read more »| 16 Jan 2019 -
NewsJason Reitman directing a Ghostbusters Sequel
Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray could be back to vanquish ghosts in this second sequel to the original and much-loved 1984 comedy Read more »| 16 Jan 2019