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Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – The Public

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The Public, 2018. Directed by Emilio Estevez. Starring Emilio Estevez, Alec Baldwin, Jena Malone, Taylor Schilling, Christian Slater, Gabrielle Union, Jeffrey Wright, Michael K. Williams, Che ‘Rhymefest’ Smith, and Jacob Vargas. SYNOPSIS: For his 6th feature behind the camera, Emilio Estevez explores homelessness on the coldest night of the year in Cincinnati, Ohio. Playing public […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Eighth Grade

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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 […]

Movie Review – We Are Boats (2019)

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We Are Boats, 2019. Directed by James Bird. Starring Luke Hemsworth, Angela Sarafyan, Graham Greene, Jack Falahee, Amanda Plummer, Gaia Weiss, Booboo Stewart, and Uzo Aduba. SYNOPSIS: Francesca travels through the world of the living, encountering many strangers along the way. She either sends them on a path towards happiness or towards a tragic end. All of […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Under the Silver Lake

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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 […]

Video Game Review – Ape Out

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Shaun Munro reviews Ape Out… It’s nigh-on impossible for any ultra-violent top-down trial-and-error shooter not to be endlessly compared to Hotline Miami these days – especially when it’s also published by Devolver Digital. But beyond this superficial if not entirely insignificant similarity, Ape Out carves out a slickly singular identity that’s very much its own. Agreeably thin on plot, […]

Movie Review – Isn’t It Romantic (2019)

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Isn’t it Romantic, 2019. Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson. Starring Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth, Adam Devine, and Priyanka Chopra. SYNOPSIS: A woman who despises romantic comedies suddenly finds herself trapped in one after suffering a concussion and must find her way back to the real world by falling in love. In Isn’t it Romantic, Rebel Wilson plays […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Gloria Bell

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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 […]

Movie Review – The Cannibal Club (2019)

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The Cannibal Club. 2019. Directed by Guto Parente. Starring Tavinho Teixeira, Ana Luiza Rios, Pedro Domingues, and Zé Maria. SYNOPSIS: Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. […]

Movie Review – Serenity (2019)

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Serenity, 2019. Directed by Steven Knight. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, and Djimon Hounsou. SYNOPSIS: A fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems. Quietly dumped in a smattering of cinemas and on VOD in the UK this […]