GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Blood Machines
The long-awaited Kickstarter project Blood Machines is a visual banquet
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Eternal Beauty
Eternal Beauty falls foul in having all the pieces in all the wrong order leading to an incredibly underwhelming and flat result
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Olympic Dreams
Olympic Dreams is a poignant and beautiful little film with a believable and sweet core relationship
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Atlantis
Atlantis is a minimalistic masterpiece that handles its subject matter with grace and a stunning sense of purpose
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme: A Banana? At This Time of Night? (Konna yofuke ni banana kayo: Kanashiki jitsuwa)
Tetsu Maeda's A Banana? At This Time of Night? is a fine and content melodrama but could have been so much more
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Eden
Snævar Sölvason’s Eden is a film that’s been seen and done millions of times before
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Stories from the Chestnut Woods
Stories from the Chestnut Woods is a leisurely look into a forgotten land and displaced people
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - 5 is the Perfect Number (5 e il numero perfetto)
5 is the Perfect Number revolves around Peppino (Toni Servillo), a retired hitman who is pulled back into the thick of things after his son is murdered in a hit gone wrong
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Pity the Lovers
Pity the Lovers takes the classic romantic comedy to look into male emotions and how men fall in love
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - The Last Autumn (Síðasta haustið)
The Last Autumn is a profound portrait and a dedication to Iceland’s remaining farmers, a tale of a vanishing way of life
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - The Twentieth Century
Visually provocative without being obnoxious, boundary-pushing without being offensive, satirical without being heavy-handed
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Standing Up, Falling Down
Standing Up, Falling Down is a slow-cooked comfort food made with such well-worn thematic ingredients as managing aspirations, nurturing relationships and appreciating familial bonds
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - The Painted Bird
Even when The Painted Bird is shot beautifully and the edit from Ludek Hudec is weighted to perfection, there will be only a small minority who will make it through a sitting
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Pictures From Afghanistan
With the help of director Robbie Fraser, David Pratt through Pictures of Afghanistan, his photographs and storytelling, is able to convince a western audience to confront the realities of warfare in Afghanistan
The Invisible Man
A tense, atmospheric, and wholeheartedly frightening toe-curling horror that is unnerving at every corner
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - I Want My MTV
Entertaining, but almost completely disposable.
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Escape From Pretoria
Escape From Pretoria is a content and intimate devised feature that is here to thrill its audience
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Valley of Souls
Valley of souls is a harrowing and masterful debut, beautifully shot and composed with calculated restraint characteristic of a mature filmmaker.
True History of the Kelly Gang
Justin Kurzel returns from his box office exodus with the True History of the Kelly Gang. The result? Not very good.
Color Out of Space
Even when it has to nowhere to go and the cards are dealt with a bad deal, it manages to conquer expectation and devour all with a sublime climatic thud.