Film Opinion
Opinion pieces from our film writers looking at key debates and discussions around films, directors, actors, and cinematic trends. Here you can also find insight to stay current with coverage of booming film festivals.
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OpinionLocations, Locations: Edinburgh & Avengers: Infinity War
Edinburgh features in the new trailer for Avengers: Infinity War. But to what extent? We try to find out... Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
OpinionWhat Justice League Tells Us About Toxic Fan Culture
It's not just Donald Trump who's obsessed with fake news. A subsection of movie fans convinced critics are out to destroy their favourite comic book franchise are beginning to look similarly paranoid. We look at this increasingly toxic online discourse Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
OpinionFilms of 2017: The Criminally Overlooked Movies of the Year
These are the films that didn't set the box office alight but should have, the movies that critics roundly ignored, and the films that won't be in conversations come awards season. In other words: these are the year's most criminally overlooked movies Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
Opinion
Films of 2017: The 25 Best Films of the Year
The best film of 2017 was about women and directed by a woman. Elsewhere, we were stirred by films from points of view rarely represented on screen: those of queer people, poor people and people of colour; our second best film of 2017 concerns all three Read more »| 28 Nov 2017 -
FestivalsThe 12 Best Films at BFI London Film Festival 2017
Following another excellent London Film Festival, our Film team put their heads together to come up with their dozen highlights, from the warmth of Princess Cyd to the thrill of Good Time to Abbas Kiarostami's swansong 24 Frames Read more »| 18 Oct 2017 -
OpinionWhy we can't watch Woody Allen films anymore
Woody Allen's tone deaf response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal reminds us of his own allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse; allegations that have now coloured his filmography. Here are the jokes that just aren't funny anymore Read more »| 18 Oct 2017
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Opinion
We Need to Talk about Harvey (and Hollywood)
Harvey Weinstein's gross sexual misconduct has sent shockwaves through Hollywood, but cinema's glib depiction of workplace sexual harassment, from 9 to 5 to Disclosure, shows the industry has a history of trivialising these issues Read more »| 12 Oct 2017 -
Opinion
Blade Runner 2049: We take the Voight-Kampff test
Blade Runner 2049 hits cinemas next week, so ideal timing to check we have the human emotions required to review the new film... Read more »| 29 Sep 2017 -
Opinion
Mother! and other recent visions of the apocalypse
Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is only the latest in a new slew of films which confront head on humanity’s relationship to the natural environment with a new tone of desperation and rage Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Festivals
15 films to see at London Film Festival 2017
The films we're most keen to see at this year's LFF, including the latest from Guillermo del Toro, Todd Haynes and Lynne Ramsay Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Opinion
In praise of crime film poet Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville was the lone wolf of French cinema and the connective tissue between American film noir and modern day master directors like Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino. Dive into his ice cool cinema with GFT's latest CineMasters season Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
Students
7 great short films to inspire budding directors
Some simple but stunning short films made by directors who'd go on to be famous, to give you inspiration as you embark on a career in film. Or maybe you’re just after something fun to watch while hungover. Either way, these shorts are for you Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
Opinion
Cinema's strange glamorisation of fascists
With the rise of the alt-right, the protests at Charlottesville and the resurgence of Neo Nazism throughout Europe, we look at cinema's own troubled relationship to the Far Right Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Opinion
Five great British road movies
Ahead of the release of Scottish road movie Moon Dogs, we seek out five other examples of the few road movies made on the British Isles, from Christopher Petit's existential Radio On to the ridiculous cross country antics of Monty Python Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Opinion
Seven great space operas
In preparation for the release of Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, we look back at the best films from that most outlandish of sub-genres: the space opera Read more »| 04 Aug 2017