The G

The G – Review

This review contains spoilers. They say that revenge is a dish best served cold. But nobody ever said anything about it being grandma doing the serving. In an unusual spin on the classic revenge dram...
Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies Bleeding – Review

This review contains mild spoilers If you watched Rose Glass’s debut, Saint Maud, there’s a strong chance you left the cinema in a state of shock and disorientation. Striking in its visuals and bolst...
Wild Men Glasgow Film Festival

Wild Men – Review

The mid-life crisis has become something of a cliché. Both in real life and in films and television. Men, typically, ditch their wives for a younger model and start buying shiny red sports cars, whic...

The Many Saints Of Newark – Review

The first questions that come to mind when the topic of a Sopranos film comes up are the obvious and totally legitimate ones. Is the film relevant to the overall arc of the entire saga? and if it suc...
The Kid Detective Amazon

The Kid Detective – Review

There are plenty of movies about bright child stars struggling to adapt with obscurity or notoriety in childhood. They usually roll out plenty of tropes around alcoholism, dingy apartments, failing c...
Wildland Kod & Blod

Wildland (Kød & Blod) – Review

Already drawing comparisons with the Oscar-nominated, Animal Kingdom, Jeanette Nordahl’s directorial debut is exciting both the Glasgow and Berlin festival circuit. Focusing on the experiences of orp...
Shorta Danish Thriller

Shorta – Review

When a film opens with a young black man screaming “I can’t breathe” whilst a police officer presses his knee against the man’s neck, it’s pretty much laying all of its political cards out on the tab...
Uncut Gems Adam Sandler

Uncut Gems – Review

The Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems doesn’t feel so much like a movie, at times, but rather an unbridled assault on the senses. It’s loud; it’s chaotic; it’s frustrating. The jewellery store settin...
Blindspotting

Blindspotting – Review

Rap music has long been a platform for aggrieved minorities to express their oppression through a heightened use of language. A pattern of speech that is punctuated by fear, anger and hope for the fu...

Sweeney 2 – Review

With the success of the TV show and the reception accorded to the first film, it was inevitable that there would be a second big screen adventure for the boys from the Flying Squad. Though, this time...