Mom – review by Danielle O’Neill
Mom Glasgow FrightFest – part of Glasgow Film Festival, 2024 Mom dares to use the taboo subject of post partum depression combined with what may or may not be supernatural external forces. This is an unsettling, dark film which sees Meredith, a new mother with a seemingly doting husband and a beautiful lavish home, slowly […]
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Thursday, March 14, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Love Lies Bleeding, GFF24, review by Pat Byrne
Love Lies Bleeding GFF24 Opening Gala Fasten your seatbelts, folks as sex, drugs, violence and bitterness explode onto the screen in Rose Glass’ movie ‘Love Lies Bleeding’. Rose Glass’s second film, following her debut, the critically acclaimed Saint Maud, was the choice for the Opening Gala at GFF24. It premiered at Sundance and the Berlin […]
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The Deep Dark review by Danielle O’Neill
Part of FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2024 UK Premiere “It’s 1856, and in the historic coal mines of Northern France, a group of miners find themselves trapped in the subterranean depths after a cave-in.” Director: Mathieu. Turi Cast: Samuel LeBihan, Amir El Kacem, Jean-Hughes Anglade. It’s a creature feature for the grown ups, characters […]
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | Filed under: Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Bleeding Love – GFF24 review by Pat Byrne
Bleeding Love is a road trip movie starring Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara. They play father and daughter taking a trip together from San Diego to New Mexico after the daughter has experienced a drug overdose. It’s a long drive to where they are going, apparently to see an artist friend, and the two […]
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog
The Burning Season (2023) review Pat Byrne
The Burning Season at GFF, 3 and 4 March, 2024 Sean Garrity’s The Burning Season is a story about two people Alena (Sara Canning) and JB (Jonas Chernick) and their dysfunctional affair. It involves them meeting each year at the lakeside resort JB runs with Poppy (Tanisha Thammavongsa). However, there is much more than lust […]
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Miss Viborg review Pat Byrne
Miss Viborg – Glasgow Film Festival 4/5 March, 2023 Cineworld, Renfrew Street, Glasgow. Debut film by Marianne Bilcher, Danish filmmaker. Solvej (Ragnhild Kaasgaard) is a dour, lonely old woman living in social housing in Viborg, a small Danish town, where in her youth she was the beauty queen. She spends her days driving round her neighbourhood […]
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Typist Artist Pirate King review by Pat Byrne
Carol Morley’s film Typist Artist Pirate King had its UK Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Carol Morley wrote and directed the film Typist Artist Pirate King inspired by the artist Audrey Amiss. While undertaking a screenwriting fellowship at Wellcome Trust the filmmaker researched Amiss’s vast archive and became fascinated by the artist. In the […]
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Sunday, March 12, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Something You Said Last Night review Pat Byrne
Something You Said Last Night – UK Premiere Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Luis De Filippis’ film, which won Toronto International Film Festival’ (TIFF) Next Wave’s Change Maker Award, in recognition of films that elevate voices and issues of social change, is a joyful and insightful movie where we join a Canadian/Italian family on a week’s […]
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Saturday, March 11, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog
The End of Sex review Pat Byrne
The End of Sex – Written by Jonas Chernick and directed by Sean Garrity, Emma (Emily Hampshire) and Josh’s (Jonas Chernick) are determined to seize the opportunity to have wild, doors wide open sex, while their two children spend a week at camp. Their first attempt results in faked orgasms by both. The couple have […]
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Friday, March 3, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Homebound – Fright Fest 2022 review by Danielle O’Neill
At Fright Fest at Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Right from the opening scene driving along deserted UK country roads this movie oozes tension. We open with Richard and Holly, husband and wife going to meet his ex-wife Nina and their kids for his youngest daughter Anna’s birthday.Holly is noticeably anxious and worried that she’ll be […]
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | Filed under: Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2022
The Execution review Danielle O’Neill
Fright Fest at Glasgow Film Festival 2022 The Execution – Director Lado Kvataniya. Cast Nikoloz Tavadze, Evgeniy Tkachuk, Daniil Spivakovsky The opening scene where we are introduced to two characters, a battered woman and a mysterious cloaked figure sets the tone for the movie. It is bleak, dark, violent and throughout there is a sense […]
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Monday, March 14, 2022 | Filed under: Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Minari at GFF21 – review by Pat Byrne
Minari The Opening Film of Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Minari has stolen all of our hearts and is finally getting its big screen release at GFT. Friday 25 – Thursday 1 July, 2021 – Buy tickets Minari Review Minari is a gentle film, with wonderful ambient music and gorgeous cinematography. It is set in beautiful […]
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Sunday, April 4, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Zoom and online events
Glasgow Film Festival 2021 – Spring Blossom review Pat Byrne
Spring blossom UK Premiere of Suzanne Lindon’s directorial debut At Glasgow Film Festival Online 7 – 10 March, 2021 Tickets to watch at home £9.99 Suzanne Lindon, wrote directed and plays the lead role in this dreamy, very French, story of first love. The 20 year old director, casts herself as the sixteen year old, […]
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Saturday, March 6, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
FrightFest – American Badger review by Danielle O’Neill Young
American Badger FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2021 6 – 9 March – Tickets £9.99 The overall feeling I have after watching this movie is one of bleakness and I would describe it as pretty grim. There are various themes running concurrently; sexual exploitation and abuse of women, child abuse, kidnapping, murder, violence and hopelessness. […]
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Friday, March 5, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Zoom and online events
FrightFest Glasgow 2021 – ‘Vicious Fun’ review Danielle O’Neill Young
Vicious Fun – 5 until 9 March, 2021 Online at FrightFest Right from the ominous opening scene of a dark, dingy motel parking lot and the score at the start, this film immediately gives off 80’s serial killer vibes. The characters as they emerge are the perfect stereotypical horror movie mix which quite frankly we […]
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Glasgow Film Festival – Rosa’s Wedding review by Pat Byrne
UK Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Online, 5 – 8 March, 2021 Rosa’s wedding is a delightful film. Perfect if you feel taken for granted, have unfulfilled dreams or perhaps think it’s time for some self-love. Rosa (Candela Peña) is turning 45 and is going to change her life. She’s making plans to follow […]
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Yer Old Faither review by Pat Byrne
At Glasgow Film Festival 2021 At Home 6 – 9 March, 2021 Order Tickets Online March 2021 Yer Old Faither is a documentary about the life of a remarkable man – John Croall, a Glaswegian doctor, who emigrated to Whyalla in South Australia with his family in 1970. He wanted to live in a sunny […]
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Thursday, March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Wildland Glasgow Film Festival Online review Pat Byrne
The UK Premiere of Wildland screens online 4 – 7 March, 2021 ‘The embrace of a loving family starts to feel like the grip of a python in Wildland, a dark, chilling crime drama that marks director Jeanette Nordahl as a talent to watch. ‘ Director, Jeanette Nordahl’s chilling debut finds teenager Ida (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) placed […]
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2021, Zoom and online events
Of Fish And Foe review Pat Byrne
Andy Heathcote’s documentary follows the Pullar family, who have traditionally fished in Scottish waters for decades and are now threatened by environmentalists among others. The film follows John and Kevin Pullar and their crew as they lay their nets to catch salmon as the fish head to Scottish rivers. Their methods, including the killing of […]
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Saturday, July 27, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews
The Science of Ghosts, Glasgow Film Festival 2019 review by Pat Byrne
The Science of Ghosts is a film directed by Niall McCann, who also directed Lost in France ( 2017). This new movie has links to Lost in France, which focused on the Glasgow based record label Chemikal Underground; The Science of Ghosts is about Adrian Crowley, the much lauded Dublin based singer / composer, the only […]
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Monday, March 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Mid90s, Glasgow Film Festival 2019 review Pat Byrne
Mid90s is Jonah Hill’s directorial debut – a coming of age film set in the 90s in Los Angeles. Stevie (Sunny Suljic) the main character is a thirteen year old, who lives in a lone parent household with his mum (Katherine Waterston) and older brother Ian (Lucas Hedges). Ian is a violent bully and young […]
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
You Were Never Really Here, Glasgow Film Festival 2018 review by Pat Byrne
‘You Were Never Really Here’, Directed by Lynne Ramsay is based on the novella of the same name written by American author Jonathon Ames. The film, albeit in an unfinished form, was acclaimed at Cannes Film Festival 2017. It stars Joaquin Phoenix in the role of the anti-hero Joe, a former soldier now working as […]
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Friday, March 16, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews
The Party’s Just Beginning Karen Gillan, Glasgow Film Festival review by Pat Byrne
The Party’s Just Beginning Director: Karen Gillan Starring: Karen Gillan, Matthew Beard,Lee Pace, Rachel JacksonJamie Quinn, Siobhan Redmond and Paul Higgins, , Karen Gillan is the lead actor and director of ‘The Party’s Just Beginning’ set in her home town of Inverness. Her desire to make her debut film came about in response to the […]
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
