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Sharlto Copley and Ben Wheatley on Free Fire
Ben Wheatley's Free Fire assembles big names for smaller scale action, with a film devoted to an extended shootout between all kinds of shady people. Alongsi... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Fast & Furious 8
There’s a funny bit of potentially intentional meta-commentary fairly early on in Fast & Furious 8 (titled The Fate of the Furious stateside).... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3 features a Christmas setting, a struggling protagonist caught in strange team-ups, two heroes sneaking into a dock for an action set piece, b... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: From Tehran to London
Mania Akbari’s film is dedicated to “all those filmmakers in Iran, who have served a prison sentence and the ones who are still in prison.”... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Mud
Jeff Nichols’ strong follow-up to 2011’s Take Shelter is another examination of male conflict; this time in the form of a coming-of-age adventure... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Fast & Furious 6
Fast & Furious 5 (aka Fast Five) abandoned virtually any semblance of its series’ street racing routes, retooling the blockbuster franchise into an... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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In Fear
A selection of great British fears – narrow country roads at night, passive-aggression from strangers, and the spilling of a man’s pint – f... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Scotland Loves Anime 2013: The Fourth Impact
The Scotland Loves Anime festival returns to Glasgow and Edinburgh in October for a fourth year of screenings and talks, and that rare opportunity to watch J... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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You're Next
Actors and directors from a certain subset of American independent cinema star in this knowing slasher film. The first of You're Next’s two genre twist... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Based on James Thurber’s short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty stars its director Ben Stiller as an inexpressive, daydreaming underachiever who,... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Ilo Ilo
Exasperation drives the actions of the key players in Ilo Ilo, a film that is both a vivid portrait of recession-struck Singapore in 1997 and a subdued,... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Wrinkles
From recent efforts like The Illusionist and Up to 1986’s When the Wind Blows, animation as a medium has served elderly protagonists particularly well;... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
As homogeneous as Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe is, the attempts to play up different tones and genres with its recent lot of films have brought w... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith adaptation The Two Faces of January is very much in the narrative mould of the author’s familiar brand of Mediterranean noir. Athens... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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The Wind Rises
From set-pieces with airborne dragons and gunships to having a literal flying pig as a protagonist, soaring into the sky has always been a recurring interest... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Godzilla
Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla revival is a beautifully directed, perfectly paced blockbuster that effortlessly veers between enormity and quieter, almost tr... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Snowpiercer
Adapted from a French comic, directed by South Korean maverick Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), and featuring a stacked roster of American, Europ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Grace of Monaco
Early on in this Grace Kelly biopic, Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) visits Princess Grace (played by Nicole Kidman) to convince her to return to a... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: I Believe in Unicorns
A merging of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland might be read as a possible influence on I Believe in Unicorns, but this ver... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Lucy
Rock legends Spinal Tap once philosophised that there’s a fine line between stupid and clever, and Luc Besson’s loony Lucy may be the filmic epit... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Scotland Loves Anime 2014
With any hopes of Disney making a 2D feature animation again looking increasingly unlikely, and even SpongeBob SquarePants venturing into CGI territory for a... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Force Majeure
A Swedish family are on a ski holiday in the French Alps. Everything seems to be going great for Tomas (Kuhnke), Ebba (Kongsli) and their two kids. That is, ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Spring
The sophomore feature from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Spring is a body horror tale for the hopeless romantic.Stuck in a personal tailspin af... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Big Hero 6
Set in gorgeously-designed futuristic city San Fransokyo, the world of Disney superhero animation Big Hero 6 is one big mishmash of Asian and American cultur... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Altman
The career-portrait documentary is a tricky beast to pull off. A director will be inclined to do the artist’s body of work complete justice while also ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Mad Max: Fury Road
In a cinematic landscape where every movie series of notable mainstream or cult popularity is being resurrected instead of left for dead, one figure has emer... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Welcome to Me
Based on premise alone, Welcome to Me could have gone horribly wrong all too easily, but director Shira Piven’s barbed satire successfully walks a fine... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Beyond the Lights
Rising superstar Noni (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is feeling the pressures of fame and finds herself on the literal edge, almost perishing in a suicide j... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Cop Car
Jon Watts’ lean Cop Car has a simple title and a simple premise. Needless complications aren’t piled onto proceedings and the film’s all th... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago