24th March 2023
A wonderful homage to the cinema industry and the legacy of films. The smell of coffee fills the air of the large cinema as it starts to fill with people. This early morning screening is part of a special strand of the Glasgow Film Festival, paying tribute to the late American actress and singer Gloria ...
20th March 2023
A deep dive into the animated collage which adapts Murakmai’s short stories. I sit down with Pierre Földes while his debut feature, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (an animated film, adapting a handful of stories by Haruki Murakami) plays at the Glasgow Film Theatre a few blocks away. I ask him about reaching out to Murakami ...
20th March 2023
An almost promising debut, and almost successful departure from migrant narratives. Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, The Devil (2021) has a straightforward premise. Marie, a refugee from Guinea, works as a chef in a retirement home located in a French town. When Father Patrick is appointed as the new Catholic priest at her workplace, she is ...
20th March 2023
The TV adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel embraces and strengthens its source material. “I’m not the muse, okay? I’m the somebody,” says the titular Daisy Jones in the first episode of Amazon Prime Video’s Daisy Jones & The Six. Over the ten-episode course of the miniseries, there’s an impressively concerted attempt to convince the ...
11th March 2023
Lee Grant’s documentary, including footage with Christine Jorgensen – the first person to undergo gender reassignment surgery – is shamefully important over thirty years after its release. Were it not for their gender, most of the people interviewed in What Sex Am I? would make pretty boring subjects. A former PE teacher and a computer ...
21st February 2023
Dune 2 and a new Hunger Games film may start a resurgence in the the genre. The Hunger Games became an international success as soon as it was released. It sparked a wave of other dystopian franchise films, such as The Maze Runner and Divergent, but each Hunger Games sequel made less money than its ...
21st February 2023
A beautiful dive into the diverse world of cinema and human landscapes. Prayers for the Stolen (Noche De Fuego). Dir: Tatiana Huezo. México. 2021. In the state of Guerrero, Mexico, the blossoming adolescence of three young girls in a remote mountain village is threatened by the gender-based violence inflicted by the local drug cartels. Trucks ...
18th February 2023
The Oscar nominated film creates a delicate ecosystem of dissonant personalities where elitism and sexual politics are ruthlessly interrogated. Ruben Östlund’s final instalment in what he has called an “informal trilogy of male absurdities” is sharply rendered chaos. Triangle of Sadness is a fearless dance, spinning broad sociological questions around bonkers staging. Marking his first ...
20th January 2023
Lucy reflects on the haute monde causing trouble in paradise. SPOILERS AHEAD Can the real Ned Schneebly please stand up. School Of Rock legend Mike White checks another roster of obnoxious Americans into a luxury White Lotus. In this second season of his anthology triumph, he swaps Hawaii for Sicily, and positions gender dynamics as ...
8th January 2023
Music Editor Otto examines the quality of representation for those watching, and working on, films about queer students. Being queer as a student is often defined by possibility. You are open not only to the barrage of new experiences that university provides, but entirely new and freer forms of self-expression. But whether or not modern ...
