FILM REVIEW: The Dead Don’t Hurt (2023)
2024-03-04
A quiet, pretty, poetic Western with Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps. This is a European-style love story set against theContinue Reading
FILM REVIEW: The Holdovers (2023) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2024-01-30
This gentle slice of life drama has been nominated for a slew of Oscars – and I’ll be rooting forContinue Reading
FILM REVIEW: BlackBerry (2023) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2023-03-11
Blackberry is a Canadian biopic about the rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone, with Jay Baruchel, Matt JohnsonContinue Reading
FILM REVIEW: Chevalier @ Glasgow Film Festival ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2023-03-08
Chevalier is based on the true story of mixed race composer and violinist Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jnr), who lived,Continue Reading
FILM REVIEW: Adopting Audrey (2021)
2023-03-05
Adopting Audrey has some depth and charm. It stars Jena Malone as an impoverished young woman who is alienated fromContinue Reading
FILM REVIEW: Girl @ Glasgow Film Festival
2023-03-02
British-Nigerian writer-director and actor Adura Onashile’s Girl opens the Glasgow Film Festival 2023. It’s a poignant, slow-paced portrait of theContinue Reading
REVIEW: Lost Illusions @ Glasgow Film Festival (UK Premiere)
2022-03-11
This award-winning French film is an adaptation of a Balzac novel of the same name. It is the story ofContinue Reading
REVIEW: Bergman Island @ Glasgow Film Festival
2022-03-07
Set in Sweden, on a quiet island where Ingmar Bergman lived and filmed some of his work, an Englishman (TimContinue Reading
REVIEW: Ashgrove @ Glasgow Film Festival (World Premiere)
2022-03-04
The world has changed – again. This time the world’s water supply has been mysteriously poisoned and people must closelyContinue Reading
REVIEW: My Old School @ Glasgow Film Festival
2022-03-04
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 hosts the European Premiere of the remarkable true story of ‘Brandon Lee’. Not Bruce Lee’s sonContinue Reading
FILM REVIEW: The Last Duel (2021)
2021-10-20
There’s a wealth of talent involved in this epic set in Medieval France but it never really takes off. It’sContinue Reading
FILM REVIEW: The Father (2020)
2021-04-06
The year 2020 has been craved by a new virus which changed our lives, but there are many other illnessesContinue Reading
FILM REVIEW: Anne with an E (TV Series 2017–2019)
2021-04-06
Anne’s story is based on the 1908 novels Anne of Green Gables by Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery. Her adaptationContinue Reading
On The Rocks (2020)
2021-01-10
The worst film I have watched this year, I know it has not even been a week yet, has toContinue Reading