Cameron Frew talks to S. Craig Zahler about his latest film Dragged Across Concrete… There’s a scene in S. Craig Zahler’s latest burner, Dragged Across Concrete, in which Mel Gibson has to endure Vince Vaughn’s languorous enjoyment of a breakfast burger, strung together by every thunderous crunch and sigh. It’s a rare moment of levity […]
Is Quentin Tarantino about to tear down Hollywood?
Cameron Frew speculates on the upcoming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood from director Quentin Tarantino… “Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it’s a Tarantino movie. You don’t go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.” This incendiary quote from the director himself perfectly sums up the swaggering […]
Man’s Best Friend: The Top 10 Dog Movies
Cameron Frew presents his top 10 dog movies… They are the light of our lives, the precious souls that want nothing more than our dedicated love. Fill their bowl, throw their ball – you keep them happy. We often get more emotional about dogs suffering hardship at the movies than humans (probably because we’re deeply […]
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Beats
Beats, 2019. Directed by Brian Welsh. Starring Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser and Brian Ferguson. SYNOPSIS: It’s Scotland, 1994. Two young friends in West Lothian with a love for techno head for one last night together, before life sends them their separate ways. For all its horrific, stillborn visage and unforgiving portrait of drug culture, Trainspotting […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson and Jake Ryan. SYNOPSIS: With one week of eighth grade left, an introverted 13-year-old girl tries to make it to the end. 1986’s Stand By Me sees four young boys on a cross-country hike to find a dead body. The story […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Under the Silver Lake
Under the Silver Lake, 2018. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. Starring Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Grace Van Patten and Jimmi Simpson. SYNOPSIS: Sam, a layabout, shaggy no-user, finds himself chained to the charm of a mysterious stranger after she goes missing. Through various puzzles and bizarre locations in Los Angeles, he stumbles on a […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Gloria Bell
Gloria Bell, 2019. Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera and Alanna Ubach. SYNOPSIS: A 58-year-old woman in her prime seeks out love in the nightlife of L.A. Sebastián Lelio’s sagacious outlook on the odyssey’s of everyday females, from the spirited to the despaired, is prevalent in much of his work. A […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Hotel Mumbai
Hotel Mumbai, 2019. Directed by Anthony Maras. Starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Jason Isaacs, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, and Anupam Kher. SYNOPSIS: The true story of the victims and survivors of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, focusing on the residents and staff of the Taj Hotel. Some events are so abhorrent, so unspeakably horrific and off-putting to the […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Benjamin
Benjamin, 2019. Directed by Simon Amstell. Starring Colin Morgan, Phénix Brossard, Joel Fry, Anna Chancellor and Jack Rowan. SYNOPSIS: A young, aggressively anxious filmmaker navigates his way through a burgeoning relationship as he battles with his own personality. Films are often segregated by their sexual orientation. Look at Netflix and Sky Movies, you can categorise […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Dragged Across Concrete
Dragged Across Concrete, 2019. Directed by S. Craig Zahler. Starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Fred Melamed, Thomas Kretschmann, and Don Johnson. SYNOPSIS: When two cops are suspended after a leaked video of their strong-arm tactics spreads in the media, they descend into the criminal underworld to […]