Lee Roden The Glasgow Film Festival has literally opened with a bang, courtesy of the Scottish premier of Jean–Pierre Jeunet’s (Amelie, Delicatessen) Micmacs. The film is a comedy centring on the arms trade (is that even possible? Only Jeunet could make it so) starring the inimitable Danny Boon as Bazil. To say Bazil is unfortunate [...]
Lee Roden Paranormal Activity follows the story of Micah and Katie as they try to film some of the strange goings-on in their house, which they suspect is being haunted (note: the two characters are played by Micah Sloat and Katie Fetherston respectively — see what they’ve done there?) As a self-confessed cynic regarding the [...]
Lee Roden Aside from a three day period where people relentlessly set off explosives during the night, November tends to be a boring month. It was much to my delight then that I discovered the GFT was taking part in a month-long French cinema festival, mixing both the old and the contemporary. Yet, to my [...]
Lee Roden Triangle, written and directed by Christopher Smith, is a horror/thriller by definition, but maybe a more apt title would be “sailing natural disaster movie” (I think I just created a genre!) I say that because the biggest disaster in the film is the craftsmanship of the boat the main cast are sailing on. [...]
