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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Opinion“Cinema is a physical experience”: Alex Reuben showcase at HOME
We head to HOME for a special screening of work by filmmaker Alex Reuben Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival 2015: Teen angst, guerrilla screenings and outrunning capitalism
We look back at another great Glasgow Short Film Festival, which offered plenty of teen angst, an opportunity to take cinema on to the streets of Glasgow and a possible escape from the "shithole" of mainstream narrative cinema Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
FestivalsFive of the Best from Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015
As ever, Glasgow Short Film Festival offered up a fascinating snapshot of the most interesting and innovative short films from across the world. Here are five of the best from its International Competition Read more »| 02 Apr 2015 -
Opinion
Scotland Film Event Highlights – March 2015
There's a horror tinge to this month's film highlights: the Daughters of Darkness spook the GFT, The Rocky Horror Picture Show's audience members terrify Cineworld and a whole night of All Night Horror Madness at Cameo and the Grosvenor Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow 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 -
Festivals
CineSkinny Awards: The Best of GFF15
We've studied our ticket stubs from two weeks of covering Glasgow Film Festival and have chosen our winners for the annual CineSkinny Awards. For the first time, our readers have got involved too and told us their film of the festival Read more »| 03 Mar 2015
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Travel
As Seen on Screen: Glasgow and Edinburgh in Film
As Glasgow Film Festival enters its final throes, our Glasgow and Edinburgh Venues editors take the opportunity to highlight a selection of visitable local venues that have appeared on the big screen Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Fifteen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival
Fifteen films from the Glasgow Film Festival lineup you'd be mad to miss... Read more »| 09 Feb 2015 -
Film
DVD Survival (erm, Gift) Guide
Thanks to a combination of Netflix, iTunes and Pirate Bay, you've probably not bought a DVD since last Christmas. Help save this flailing industry by splurging on some hard copies for your loved ones this festive season Read more »| 05 Dec 2014 -
OpinionFilms of 2014: Aliens, A.I.s and Adolescence
From reptilian alpha males (Godzilla, The Wolf of Wall Street) to females fighting the patriarchy (Under the Skin, We Are the Best!), from troubled pasts (12 Years a Slave, ’71) to troubling futures (Her), the movies of the year are full of contrasts Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
Opinion
Oscars 2015: The Early Front Runners
With the awards season about to kick off in earnest, we take an early look at the runners and riders in this year’s Best Picture Oscar race Read more »| 25 Nov 2014 -
Festivals
LFF 2014: The New(ish) Voices
A round-up of the best new(ish) voices at LFF, meaning filmmakers with only a few films or less under their belt who brought striking new works to the festival Read more »| 21 Nov 2014 -
Opinion
Space Sisters: Teknowomen at GFT
With a film series celebrating women in sci-fi happening a Glasgow Film Theatre this month, we consider the outlook for female sci-fi heroes in today's cinema climate Read more »| 10 Nov 2014 -
Opinion
Life through a Lens: Film Studies 101
Are you an incredibly lazy film student? If so, get the gist of the whole of film history by watching the quintessential movies from each decade of cinema's short existence Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Festivals
Festival of Broken Dreams: Cannes 2014
We report from the 67th Cannes film festival Read more »| 10 Jul 2014