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Spring Breakers
22 Feb 2013
Harmony Korine's ludicrously bad drama about four girls gone wild on spring break
Incoherent, brash and self-consciously 'arthouse' in execution, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is an intriguing cinematic spectacle: an awful film that seems aware – nay, aggressively boastful – of its own awfulness. It follows a quartet of…
The History of Future Folk
22 Feb 2013
Charming but slight sci-fi music comedy in the vein of Flight of the Conchords
Cosmic-folk twosome Future Folk started life on the underground New York music scene, playing acoustic guitar-and-banjo tunes with sci-fi lyrics to crowds of bemused punters. The gentle whimsy and a focus on music rather than jokes puts their foot…
White Elephant
22 Feb 2013
Contemplative Argentinian drama about a team of Catholic priests working in Buenos Aires' slums
In this unique and impressive drama Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Trapero (Carancho) invites us into the lives of a team of dedicated Catholic priests, led by Father Julian (Ricardo Darin), who work with and live amongst gang members, drug addicts and…
How to Survive a Plague
22 Feb 2013
Moving, Oscar-nominated documentary about the early days of AIDS campaign group ACT UP
Founded by playwright Larry Kramer and a group of fellow activists in March 1987, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) is a grassroots group dedicated to influencing US AIDS policy and research. David France’s documentary charts the group’s…
Before Dawn
21 Feb 2013
Uneven low-budget zombie drama with unexpected final act
The public’s interest in all things connected with zombies shows little signs of passing away quietly, with micro-budget feature Before Dawn arriving on the heels of the somewhat higher profile Warm Bodies. The common ground is that both attempt to…
Opinion: Why do we love horror during times of economic uncertainty?
20 Feb 2013
Twilight, The Walking Dead and Dead Set are just some of our recent horrific cultural highlights
After the Wall Street crash of 1929, was it pure coincidence that Universal set about creating a canon of classic horror movies with iconic creations? Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, Boris Karloff’s monster of Frankenstein and Lon Chaney Jr’s Wolf Man continued…
The Great Gatsby enjoys a resurgence on stage and screen
20 Feb 2013
F Scott Fitzgerald's novel is being adapted by both Baz Luhrmann and Northern Ballet
Not for nothing is F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel deemed one of the greatest books of all time. With descriptive text that often borders on the poetic, The Great Gatsby is a story to savour, not devour. At just over 160 pages, however, it’s as much…
Crawl
20 Feb 2013
Australian thriller that borrows a little too heavily from the Coen brothers
Bucking the recent trend in Australian thrillers and chillers for grittily and gratuitously realistic lurid documentary-style dramas based on real events (see Wolf Creek et al), Crawl is a pointedly cinematic and resolutely fictional old school…
Living Apart Together
20 Feb 2013
Restored 80s lost drama about a Glaswegian pop star starring singer-songwriter BA Robertson
Made for fledgling network-broadcaster Channel 4 in 1982, writer/director Charlie Gormley’s film might seem like an odd choice for restoration; this clearly isn’t a masterpiece in disrepair, but a humble homegrown proposition. Yet after several decades…
John Dies at the End
20 Feb 2013
Self-conciously bizarre cult comedy offering from director Don Coscarelli
Penned by Senior Editor at Cracked.com David Wong (real name Jason Pargin), the 2009 novel John Dies at the End was a comedy-horror tornado of cultural references, paranormality and winking self-awareness. Cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba…
Citadel
20 Feb 2013
Bleak and morally dubious ‘hoodie horror’ set in Glasgow high rises
The ‘hoodie horror’ subgenre can be neatly summed up as the Daily Mail’s favourite nightmare: good, honest (almost invariably white) folks terrorized by gangs of feral (almost invariably multi-racial) urban youths. 2008 horror Eden Lake and the Michael…
Director Ricky Wood discusses David Hayman-starring horror Sawney: Flesh of Man
19 Feb 2013
The film is a modern retelling of the legend of Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean
Sawney: Flesh of Man is a new horror film based on the life of Sawney Bean, the infamous head of a Scottish cannibal clan who robbed and ate travellers in the 15th or 16th century. Starring David Hayman in the title role director Ricky Wood has brought…
Eli Roth, Sawney: Flesh of Man and Lords of Salem among the highlights at FrightFest Glasgow 2013
19 Feb 2013
The Glasgow Film Festival's cult-horror strand also features screenings of Bayantium and The Bay
‘I think our major trump card is getting Eli Roth to come,’ is a minor understatement from Alan Jones, one of the fearsome four who – alongside Ian Rattray, Paul McEvoy and Greg Day – orchestrate the two days of terror that is FrightFest. Roth is…
Vinyl
19 Feb 2013
Clunky Welsh comedy starring Keith Allen and Phil Daniels as ageing punk rockers
This clunky punk rock comedy from Welsh filmmaker Sara Sugarman has its heart in the right place, but despite a decent ‘inspired by real events’ premise and some solid performances, it’s crippled by a half-baked script and a reliance upon…
The We and the I
19 Feb 2013
Michel Gondry shows his imagination is alive and well in his latest drama
French director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) gives the single-location movie a funky twist with this authentically over-the-top slice of Bronx life, following the long, loud journey of a local New York bus, loaded with high…
Cloud Atlas
18 Feb 2013
Breathtaking action, profound emotion, dark sense of fun and sheer deranged brilliance
A time-trotting, globe-encircling, multi-strand plot; wigs, false noses and flamboyant accents; grandiose theories about the fate-shifting power of romantic love... Cloud Atlas has an unavoidable hint of the Mad Folly about it. One recalls Thomas…
Side Effects
18 Feb 2013
Soderbergh's final cinema outing has a fine cast, an authentic milieu and experimental script
Set for early retirement, Steven Soderbergh says Side Effects will be the last film of his we’ll see in cinemas – possibly for good. Whether this proves to be the case or not, this thriller set in the world of prescription medicines is typical of his…
Stoker
18 Feb 2013
Unusually intense slice of American Gothic adds something fresh to the thriller genre
Despite director Park Chan-wook’s previous involvement with vampires (Thirst), his American debut has nothing to do with Dracula writer Bram Stoker. Instead India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) is a teenage girl mourning the death of her father Richard (Dermot…
To the Wonder
18 Feb 2013
Terence Malick's impressionistic hymn to falling in and out of love
You wait six years for a new Terence Malick film -- that was the gap between The New World and The Tree of Life -- and then another one materialises barely a year later. Advance reports indicated that this was the enigmatic director’s most…
Lore
18 Feb 2013
Beautifully-shot, World War II-set drama explores character raised within Nazi ideology
Nine years after her sensitive debut Somersault, about a teenage runaway in Australia, director Cate Shortland brings us her second feature Lore, adapted from a short story by Rachel Seiffert. Newcomer Saskia Rosendhal plays the titular character in…
Side by Side
18 Feb 2013
A-list directors on film vs digital debate in doc produced and presented by Keanu Reeves
The title of this reasonably interesting and fairly comprehensive documentary about traditional photochemical film and pioneering digital technology is slightly misleading. Although filmmakers have been using both forms for roughly the last decade and a…
Shell
18 Feb 2013
Impressive feature debut set in Highlands by Scottish writer-director Scott Graham
Shot with a raw eloquence that displays a deep understanding of its Highland setting, and performed with sensitivity and directness, Shell is an impressive debut by Scottish writer-director Scott Graham. Chloe Pirrie quietly but confidently holds the…
Safe Haven
18 Feb 2013
A bland, 'vanilla' film about true love conquering all, starring Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel
The Nicholas Sparks novel-to-screen hit-machine shows no sign of slowing down; A Walk To Remember, The Notebook, The Lucky One, and The Last Song have all delighted teenage girls worldwide. Director Lasse Hallström previously paired Amanda Seyfried and…
Raime (live), part of Sonic Cineplex - The Arches, Glasgow, Sat 16 Feb
18 Feb 2013
A solid and engaging sound from the London duo, with disappointing visuals
Armed with one of 2012’s starkest releases, Quarter Turns Over a Living Line released on the uber-slick record label Blackest Ever Black and performances at last year's Unsound festival and London's South Bank, this London duo's post-industrial…
Mama
18 Feb 2013
Feature-length version of short is a supernatural tale of feral children
Picked up under Guillermo del Toro’s production wing following an utterly terrifying short film, the feature length version of Mama comes to the screen under auspicious circumstances. The film initially makes good on these promises, but as is often the…
