26th November 2023
Break a leg! Ryan Rutherford does Glasgow proud with new strides in his career. Self-described as a “28-year-old wee Scottish guy from Edinburgh”, Ryan Rutherford graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2018 with an MA in Theatre Studies. Since then he has been working incredibly hard in one of the world’s most competitive industries. ...
26th November 2023
The first rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club. 24 years on since its UK release, David Fincher’s Fight Club remains one of those films. Divisive, clever and a certified cult classic, Fight Club’s reputation precedes ...
26th November 2023
In the realm of the silver screen, how we approach loneliness is filtered through our own lens of gender In her essay Females, Andrea Long-Chu makes the bold claim that “everyone is a woman, and everyone hates it.” She doesn’t mean this literally (if that wasn’t clear), but just that maleness is necessarily something unobtainable. ...
26th November 2023
Wes Anderson continues to evolve his style and push the boundaries of cinema in his new short movies on Netflix On the vast Netflix platform, we have the uniqueness of Wes Anderson’s latest offering to his by now, huge audience. It is a trip into the world of Roald Dahl’s short stories, combined with Anderson’s ...
19th November 2023
Sean McConville, a film student at the University, has written and directed a parody of Father Ted Directed by Glasgow film student Sean McConville, Pastor Ed is a modern, fresh parody of the Irish Channel 4 show Father Ted. However, with one major difference; while Father Ted revolved around the life of a group of ...
17th November 2023
A tribute to the late Matthew Perry On 28th October, we all lost a Friend with news of the death of actor Matthew Perry, best known (and loved) for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends. Friends started as a prime-time American comedy show for Gen-X on NBC. It ran from 1994﹘2004 and has been ...
17th November 2023
David Fincher’s latest endeavour—The Killer—is another drop in Fincher’s bucket of mediocrity. David Fincher’s newest film, The Killer, is an unfortunate departure from his usual standard of craft. What used to differentiate Fincher from his peers was his range and variety. His catalogue, up until recently, was stellar. No one has the same favourite Fincher ...
17th November 2023
Kubrick’s legendary sci-fi visual tour-de-force is a terrifying glimpse into our near future The Glasgow Science Centre has been putting on an array of vintage and modern classics at their huge IMAX theatre over the last few weeks, and the opening feature was Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Odyssey is widely ...
16th November 2023
Psychological horror meets supernatural thriller in Teresa Sutherland’s debut feature In the wide expanse of Teresa Sutherland’s directorial debut, the psychological horror Lovely, Dark and Deep, darkness lurks in the depths of the forest, and within those subjected to its terror. Sutherland, perhaps best known for her work as a staff writer on the Netflix ...
30th October 2023
Celine Song’s gut wrenching debut details first loves, longing and the fondness that distance cultivates. Dear Nora, From the first frame that you appeared in, Past Lives became much more beautiful to watch. To some people watching, you might have been a Korean woman who betrayed her roots, who chose to migrate to the West, ...
