[Contains spoilers]TW: self-harm, body horror, blood, suicide, mental abuse, physical abuse Rose Glass’ new horror Saint Maud (2019) focuses on … More
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Film Review: The True History of the Kelly Gang – as part of the Glasgow Film Festival
True, I do love history – I am a history student after all. And Justin Kurzel’s 19th-century story The True History … More
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Film Review: Women Make Film – as part of the Glasgow Film Festival
A hundred years ago, the highest-paid film director of the 1920s, Lois Weber, was a woman. So, how come that … More
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Film Review: The Turning
Floria Sigismondi’s The Turning is a ghost story that is strangely unoccupied with its own ghosts, leaving behind a fragmented, meandering … More
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Film Review — Wrath of Silence – In association with the Chinese Visual Festival
It is extremely rare to find a title that captures the overall atmosphere and recurring themes of a film as accurately … More
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Film Review: Resin – as part of the Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Daniel Borgman’s Resin (2019) explores the relationship between nature and society, as it centres around a family living in isolation … More
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Film Review: Gay Chorus Deep South – as part of the Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Within the first 30 seconds of Gay Chorus Deep South I had goose bumps, and they barely left me for … More
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Film Review: The Truth – as part of the Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is best known for his quiet but heart-wrenching family dramas, and his newest and first foreign language … More
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Film Review: The Translators – as part of the Glasgow Film Festival 2020
[Content warning for the film: suicide] Régis Roinsard’s thriller The Translators (2019) brings together nine translators from different countries into … More
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Film Review: How To Build A Girl – as part of the Glasgow Film Festival 2020
I first discovered Caitlin Moran at age thirteen. Her unique writing style had me engrossed, and she was to become … More
