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Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review – Andrea Gets a Divorce

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Andrea Gets a Divorce, 2024.Directed by Josef Hader. Starring Birgit Minichmayr, Josef Hader, Thomas Schubert, and Robert Stadlober.SYNOPSIS:A policewoman wants a divorce and city job promotion but after hitting her drunk husband with her car in an accidental collision, she flees the scene, committing a hit-and-run.Films about divorce can often be hard hitting, emotionally draining […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review – On Falling

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On Falling, 2024.Written and directed by Laura Carreira. Starring Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, and Neil Leiper.SYNOPSIS:The story focuses on Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines.We’re so used to takes that paint a fairy […]

Movie Review – The Brutalist (2024)

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The Brutalist, 2024.Directed by Brady Corbet. Starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, Benett Vilmányi, Michael Epp, Jonathan Hyde, Peter Polycarpou, Salvatore Sansone, Ariane Labed, and Matt Devere.SYNOPSIS:When a visionary architect and his wife flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their […]

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Episode 8 Review – ‘The Real Good Guys’

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Chris Connor reviews the season finale of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew…Skeleton Crew has continued to deliver thrills week on week as we’ve followed Wim, Neel, Fern and KB and their attempts to return home. With the previous episode ending on a cliffhanger and Jod and his pirate crew with the Republic mint in their sites; […]

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Episode 7 Review – ‘We’re Gonna Be in So Much Trouble’

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Chris Connor reviews the seventh episode of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew…We have been steadily building towards our crew’s return to At Attin since they left at the series’ start. The penultimate episode sees both Jod and the pirate crew and Wim and co, simultaneously making course for the seemingly lost planet. We begin with the […]

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Episode 6 Review – “Zero Friends Again”

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Chris Connor reviews the sixth episode of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew…Skeleton Crew’s fifth episode finally revealed some of the secrets at the heart of the show as we found out the infamous pirate Tak Rennod was the previous captain of the ship which in turn was revealed to the Onyx Cinder. The show’s sixth episode […]

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Episode 5 Review – “You Have a Lot to Learn About Pirates”

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Chris Connor reviews the fifth episode of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew…Skeleton Crew’s first four episodes have introduced us to a more light-hearted side of a galaxy far far away, full of fun and escapism that hearkens back to the Original Trilogy. Thus far we’ve encountered marauding pirates, a planet of child soldiers and much more, […]

Exclusive Interview – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle composer Gordy Haab

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Chris Connor chats with composer Gordy Haab about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle…One of the pleasant surprises in 2024 gaming wise has been the response to Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. It is a globe trotting game that takes place between Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. John Williams’ themes […]

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Episode 4 Review – ‘Can’t Say I Remember No At Attin’

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Chris Connor reviews the fourth episode of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew…Skeleton Crew has steadily built momentum across its opening three episodes with our crew of kids and Jude Law’s Jod evading pirates, x-wings and more. They now seemingly have the co-ordinates to At Attin, or do they? As it turns out the co-ordinates recovered at […]

Movie Review – Anora (2024)

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Anora, 2024.Directed by Sean Baker. Starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov , Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan.SYNOPSIS:Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.Sean Baker […]