The Drug King, 2018. Directed and written by Min-ho Woo. Starring Kang-ho Song, Jung-suk Jo, and Doona Bae. SYNOPSIS: A Korean drug smuggler is initiated into the drug trade and experiences a spectacular rise and fall set against the backdrop of Korea in 1970s. Set in 1970s Korea, Kang-ho Song plays real-life drug smuggler Lee […]
Movie Review – Departures (2018)
Departures (a.k.a. Then Came You), 2018. Directed by Peter Hutchings. Starring Asa Butterfield, Maisie Williams, Nina Dobrev, Ken Jeong, David Koechner, Tyler Hoechlin, Tituss Burgess, Margot Bingham, Peyton List, Sonya Walger, Colin Moss and Briana Venskus. SYNOPSIS: A hypochondriac working as an airport baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with […]
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 […]
Movie Review – Climax (2019)
Climax, 2019. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, Giselle Palmer, Taylor Kastle, and Thea Carla Schott. SYNOPSIS: French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with […]
Movie Review – Everybody Knows (2018)
Everybody Knows, 2018. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Bárbara Lennie, Ramón Barea, Inma Cuesta, Elvira Mínguez, José Ángel Egido and Carla Campra. SYNOPSIS: When a teenage girl goes missing during the frivolities of a wedding reception, family and friends discover buried secrets and unspoken turmoil as they try to […]
DVD Review – Outlaws (2017)
Outlaws, 2017. Directed by Stephen McCallum. Starring Ryan Corr, Abbey Lee, Eddie Baroo, Simone Kessell, Matt Nable, Josh McConville and Jacqui Williams. SYNOPSIS: A biker in a gang must betray the brutal club President in order to save his brother’s life. “You’re a fake… You might as well be a male model” says Knuck (Matt […]
Doom Patrol Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Donkey Patrol’
Hasitha Fernando reviews the second episode of Doom Patrol… The opening scene of episode 2 finds our eponymous band of ‘super-zeroes’ in a bit of a hairy situation. To recap succinctly, the pilot of Doom Patrol concluded on a cliffhanger; albeit a rather outlandish one. It involved the appearance of an otherworldly flatulating donkey and […]
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 – Ray & Liz
Ray & Liz, 2018. Directed by Richard Billingham. Starring Ella Smith, Justin Salinger, Patrick Romer, and Tony Way. SYNOPSIS: Just outside of Birmingham, Ray and Liz struggle to survive and raise their sons, including future photographer Richard Billingham. Richard and his brother Dean do all they can to fend for themselves, despite their situational poverty […]
Video Game Review – Dick Wilde 2
Shaun Munro reviews Dick Wilde 2… You’d be forgiven for missing southern fried VR shooting gallery Dick Wilde when it launched back in mid-2017 (and you can find our review here). The inauspiciously-monikered shooter was nevertheless an instant cult classic, and remains one of the most impressive uses of PSVR’s Aim controller. Just less than two years later, […]
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