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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 […]

Movie Review – The Wedding Guest (2018)

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The Wedding Guest, 2018 Written and Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, and Jim Sarbh. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious man travels from the UK to Pakistan on a top-secret mission to attend a wedding – armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Michael Winterbottom delivers a tense thriller with The Wedding Guest. Destined in […]

Video Game Review – Trials Rising

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Shaun Munro reviews Trials Rising… Trials Rising has been a long time coming for fans of the physics-based racing franchise, with the divisively-received Trials Fusion landing way back in the spring of 2014. And though the latest instalment makes a few peculiar design calls, it is for the most part the addictive, infuriatingly challenging blast fans will […]

Movie Review – The Drug King (2018)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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 […]