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NewsFrank Ocean interviewed Call Me By Your Name's Timothée Chalamet
Ocean chatted to this year’s breakout actor about his star-making turns in queer romance Call Me By Your Name and Greta Gerwig's feature Lady Bird Read more »| 06 Feb 2018 -
NewsMaybe this Han Solo movie won’t be a disaster after all
The first glimpse of Solo: A Star Wars Story looks surprisingly promising, where Alden Ehrenreich takes on the role of the cocky space pilot previously played with roguish charm by Harrison Ford Read more »| 06 Feb 2018 -
NewsNetflix surprise with the immediate release of Cloverfield sequel
After much speculation, Netflix launch The Cloverfield Paradox direct to its streaming service with no advance promotion Read more »| 05 Feb 2018 -
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Duncan Jones’ new sci-fi Mute looks pretty spectacular
The Moon and Source Code director’s latest is set in a future Berlin and arrives on Netflix 23 February Read more »| 30 Jan 2018 -
NewsPaul Rudd returns in the first trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp
The shrinking superhero gets a sequel alongside Evangeline Lilly as the Wasp in the latest film from Marvel Read more »| 30 Jan 2018 -
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Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot thriller Unsane looks intense
The always inventive Soderbergh goes lo-fi with this thriller starring Claire Foy as a young woman convinced she’s being stalked Read more »| 30 Jan 2018
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Star Wars to tour the UK with a live orchestra
Fancy seeing Star Wars: A New Hope with a full live orchestra playing John Williams’ iconic score? A new film concert tour, which includes a date in Glasgow, lets you do just that Read more »| 29 Jan 2018 -
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Glasgow Film Festival announces 2018 programme
Glasgow Film Festival reveals its huge and eclectic 2018 programme, with hundreds of lively events and screenings, including the new films from Lynne Ramsay, Claire Denis, Wes Anderson and Agnès Varda Read more »| 24 Jan 2018 -
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Oscar nominations: many good decisions and a few bad ones
The nominations are in for this year’s Oscars, and it’s a pretty progressive lineup, suggesting campaigns like #MeToo and #OscarSoWhite might be at last dragging Academy voters into the 21st century Read more »| 23 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
Josie Long’s Glasgow-set comedy to premiere at GFF
Comedian and actor Josie Long’s love affair with Glasgow continues with her debut feature Super November – described as both a “romantic comedy and Orwellian dystopia”, it will have its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jan 2018 -
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James Bond fan edit turns series into 'Bond v Bond' film
It’s Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond in this crazy James Bond feature length mashup Read more »| 19 Jan 2018 -
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Tom Hardy's late 90s rap mixtape resurfaces
And the shocking part is, it's not terrible Read more »| 19 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
EIFF announce Karen Gillan as Youth Strand patron
The star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle has been named as patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s youth strand “The Young and the Wild” Read more »| 18 Jan 2018 -
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Watch this surprisingly good fan-made Harry Potter film
The 52-minute low-budget fan film is not without its bad dialogue, incoherent editing and cheesy acting, but the magical effects are kind of, well, magic Read more »| 18 Jan 2018 -
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GFF to close with doc on Scottish workers who defied Pinochet
Nae Pasaran tells the story of how workers at the East Kilbride Rolls-Royce factory defied Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship and helped ground half of Chile’s Air Force Read more »| 17 Jan 2018