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Parker
8 Mar 2013
Lax plotting lets down this crime caper starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez
If there’s one thing to be gleaned from the late Donald E Westlake’s hard-boiled Parker novels (written under the pseudonym Richard Stark) and the movies inspired by them, it’s that there’s no honour among thieves. Parker is a career criminal with a…
Oz the Great and Powerful
8 Mar 2013
An action-packed spectacle of a prequel, starring James Franco, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis
This prequel to The Wizard of Oz might have been little more than an expensive special effects extravaganza were it not in the hands of a director with as distinctive a visual style and flair for knockabout comedy as Sam Raimi. As with Tim Burton’s…
Good Vibrations
8 Mar 2013
Inspiring biopic of Belfast punk record label owner Terri Hooley
In 1970s Belfast, as sectarian conflict escalated into terrorism and murder, Terri Hooley decided to open a record shop on the battle-scarred high street. 'One love' was his declaration, and Good Vibrations was the name of the store. The store birthed a…
Babeldom
6 Mar 2013
A rich documentary meditating on the future of urban life from filmmaker Paul Bush
A science fiction film using buildings of today, or a documentary about tomorrow? Paul Bush’s Babeldom might be the first film to use the laws of thermodynamics as a denouement, as the film wonders quite literally what our world is coming to. With the…
The Place Beyond the Pines
5 Mar 2013
Ambitious thriller from the director of Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper
Reteaming Ryan Gosling with his Blue Valentine writer/director Derek Cianfrance, The Place Beyond the Pines is a thriller with a higher pedigree than most, with impressive support from Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne and Ray Liotta. The result is…
Top five movies about sleep
5 Mar 2013
Featuring The Machinist, Fight Club, Waking Life and Inception
The Machinist Nothing supports theories on the damage of sleep deprivation quite like seeing Christian Bale’s condition in The Machinist. Bale’s character, Trevor Reznik, is in the vicious throes of chronic insomnia, leaving him emaciated and…
Fire with Fire
4 Mar 2013
Dull action revenge flick starring Bruce Willis and Josh Duhamel
Oh, Josh Duhamel – is there nothing you can do? In between contributing nothing much to each instalment of the Transformers series, he has popped up in low-to-middling romantic ventures like Safe Haven and New Year’s Eve. He even joined the cast of this…
The Guilt Trip
4 Mar 2013
Heartfelt mother-son road trip movie starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen
Teaming Barbra Streisand with Seth Rogen promises a road trip worth avoiding; setting the diva who produced and starred in a slew of vanity projects including The Prince of Tides and The Mirror As Two Faces opposite the shambolic stoner from Knocked Up…
The ABCs of Death
28 Feb 2013
The 26 part horror anthology screened as part of FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2013
26 shorts about death all rolled into just over two hours, as a horde of horror directors from around the world each pick a letter, assign an appropriate deathly demise to said letter, then make a (roughly) four minute film. As with all anthologies the…
The Bay
28 Feb 2013
Barry Levinson's found footage parasite horror screened at FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2013
The Bay is a strange film to come from Barry Levinson, you don’t expect a found footage horror from the director of Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam and Wag the Dog. The format is usually the first choice for first time directors trying to make an impact…
Aftershock
28 Feb 2013
Eli Roth co-writes and stars in this grisly disaster movie
Aftershock was probably the biggest film of the FrightFest weekend, mainly because star/co-writer/horror icon Eli Roth was in the house for the screening (along with director Nicolás López and co-star Lorenza Izzo), a real coup for the festival. The…
FrightFest reviews roundup: Black Sabbath, Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman and Hellfjord
28 Feb 2013
Three screenings that took place as part of the horror strand at Glasgow Film Festival 2013
Day two opened with a restored print of an Italian horror classic, Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath. This trio of terrifying tales is a wonderful anthology that really showcases his style, the exaggerated use of lighting and colour give the film a queasy…
Profile: Scott Graham, director of Shell
27 Feb 2013
Graham's debut is an impressive and atmospheric 'road side movie' starring Chloe Pirrie
Born Aberdeen, Scotland, 1974 Background Glasgow-based filmmaker Scott Graham was inspired by American films of the 1970s for his melancholic first feature. Shell is a portrait of a girl living in a remote petrol station in the north of Scotland…
Gloria Swanson and Baby Peggy to feature in Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema
27 Feb 2013
The silent film stars are part of a programme that includes music from Minima and The Dodge Brothers
Gloria Swanson is for many people the epitome of the silent film star. She is remembered not just for her many roles in early cinema (Male and Female, Why Change Your Wife) but also as ageing silent screen actress Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s sublime…
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26 Feb 2013
Rob Zombie's ambitious witch horror screened as part of FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2013
Before the UK premiere of Rob Zombie’s latest feature we got a look at the first episode of Norwegian TV series Hellfjord, packed with gags and plenty of weirdness it went down incredibly well with the FrightFest audience. Zombie’s movies have all…
Byzantium
26 Feb 2013
Neil Jordan's vampire flick screened as part of FrightFest at the Glasgow Film Festival 2013
Neil Jordan’s return to the world of vampires was another much anticipated UK premiere, particularly as Jordan, producer Stephen Woolley and stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan were in attendance. This is a modern urban vampire story playing out in a…
Blancanieves
26 Feb 2013
1920s set silent take on the Snow White story, with seven bullfighting dwarves
It’s going to be difficult to get through a review of Blancanieves without mentioning The Artist, so let’s get it out of the way now. Both films are European, black and white, reduced format silent films in romanticised 20th century period settings.
A Late Quartet
26 Feb 2013
Unlikable characters blight this grown-up drama starring Christopher Walken
As befits an unapologetically grown-up and classy film about posh people who have loads of money and play in a string quartet, this drama has some supremely elegant, subtle and well-turned scenes. It also has moments of preciousness choking enough to…
Gangs of Wasseypur (Part 2)
26 Feb 2013
Highly entertaining second part of the vibrant Bollywood gangster drama
The second half of Anurag Kashyap’s Hindi gangster epic picks up immediately where its predecessor ended; with the marketplace murder of Sardar Khan (Manoj Bajpayee) by a gang of masked motorcyclists. Despite his initial reluctance, Sardar’s son Faizal…
Welcome to the Punch
26 Feb 2013
James McAvoy and Andrea Riseborough star in this showy action flick from the director of Shifty
There is something distinctly hypocritical and pernicious about the way this homegrown thriller gestures towards a moral stance on gun violence, only to itself locate firearms as not only an absolutely critical element in effective policing, but also…
The Look of Love
26 Feb 2013
Michael Winterbottom's biopic of soft porn tycoon Paul Raymond never finds its tone
Despite juicy subject matter and a promising cast, this biopic of the British strip club and soft porn tycoon Paul Raymond never quite finds its tone. In its first half, it deploys a weak end-of-the-pier comic mode which might fit its tasselled, trashy…
Gangs of Wasseypur (Part 1)
26 Feb 2013
Epic Bollywood gangster saga influenced by The Godfather
Anurag Kashyap’s Hindi gangster saga is a considerable undertaking; split into two parts of over 160 minutes each, it follows the fortunes of a criminal dynasty with exhaustive attention to detail. The model is clearly Francis Ford Coppola’s study of…
Much Ado About Nothing
26 Feb 2013
This lo-fi project from Joss Whedon is an elegant adaptation of the Shakespearean play
It’s not classed as one of Shakespeare's hard-to-categorise 'problem plays', but there’s plenty that’s problematic in this mid-period comedy. The traducement, rejection and humiliation of the innocent Hero, for instance – and her capitulation thereto…
Hi-So
26 Feb 2013
Inert Thai drama about a directionless twenty-something in Bangkok
Form follows content in this tediously inert Thai drama about a young man caught between eastern and western cultures and suffering from emotional paralysis. Emotional paralysis is quite possibly the state writer-director Aditya Assarat’s film will…
Neighbouring Sounds
26 Feb 2013
A clever and original social drama from Brazil directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho
The current resurgence in Brazilian cinema throws up a major work in Kleber Mendonça Filho's Neighbouring Sounds, an allegorical tale of class conflict set in a Recife condominium. From the opening scene, in which young mother Bia (Maeve Jinkings) hides…
