Glasgow loves cinema and offers a wide selection of entertainment to film goers and movie buffs alike. You can see all the latest big releases or catch an art house movie, participate in film quiz nights and enjoy special screenings.Moonlight, Written and Directed by Barry Jenkins – review by Calum Maclean
Moonlight Written and Directed by Barry Jenkins Based on In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney Cast – Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, Alex Hibbert, André Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Jaden Piner, Janelle Monae, Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali and Patrick Decile Running Time – 110 Minutes Hotly tipped to be one of next year’s […]
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Thursday, January 19, 2017 | Filed under: Calum Maclean – poet and aspiring writer, Cinema, Film Reviews by Calum Maclean, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
La La Land, Review by Calum Maclean
La La Land Written and Directed by Damien Chazelle Cast – Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jessica Rothe, Sonoya Mizuno, Callie Hernandez, J.K Simmons, Finn Wittrock, Tom Everett Scott Running Time – 128 minutes Damien Chazelle’s romantic musical comedy drama is currently on course to sweep the 2017 awards season, and less […]
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Sunday, January 15, 2017 | Filed under: Calum Maclean – poet and aspiring writer, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
A Night of Horror Podcast review by Calum Maclean
A Night of Horror is a new podcast series produced in Scotland by Kathleen Kidd. The series consists of six short episodes so far, with more planned for the New Year. Each episode tells a macabre short story, building an unnerving atmosphere with committed vocal performances from the cast and a subtly eerie score. Fans […]
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Friday, January 13, 2017 | Filed under: Calum Maclean – poet and aspiring writer, Film Reviews by Calum Maclean
Reset, GFT, 12 January, 2017
Reset 12 January, 2017 (12.45, 3.05, 8.05) GFT enjamin Millepied is best known as the man behind Black Swan’s stunning ballet sequences, and in early 2013 he was appointed as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. This new documentary finds Millepied on the eve of his first gala with the Opera as he designs and […]
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Thursday, January 12, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll, GFT 12 January, 2017
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll (CTBC) GFT 12 January, 2017 During the ‘60s and early ‘70s, as the war in Vietnam threatened Cambodia’s borders, a new music scene emerged that took Western rock and roll and stood it on its head – creating a sound like no other. This new documentary […]
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The Young Offenders GFT, 13 – 19 January, 2017
The Young Offenders, 13 – 19 January, 2017 GFT Inspired by the true story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders follows Conor and Jock, two inner-city teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same bum-fluff moustaches. When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast […]
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Cities Helke Sander – The All Round Reduced Female Personality (Redupers), CCA, Wed 18 January 2017
Cities Helke Sander – The All Round Reduced Female Personality (Redupers) CCA Wed 18 January 2017 6.30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Cities Fri 1 July 2016 — Tue 28 February 2017 The first full-length feature by feminist activist and documentarist Helke Sander, the film, also […]
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CinemaAttic: Do You Remember, CCA, 13 January, 2017
CinemaAttic: Do you remember? Fri 13 January 2017 CCA 7.30pm, £5 (£4 students) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 These Short Film fanatics are back with the finest independent films from Spain And Latin American countries. In January Cinemaattic get back with a night focused on the power of […]
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Take 2. Jumanji GFT 14 January, 2017
Take 2. Jumanji Saturday 14 January, 2017 (11.30 a.m.) GFT When a magical board game unleashes a world of adventure on siblings Peter (Bradley Pierce) and Judy Shepherd (Kirsten Dunst) a host of dangers can only be stopped by finishing the game. While exploring an old mansion, the youngsters find a curious, jungle-themed game called […]
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Donna Rutherford Lullaby, GFT 16 January, 2017
Donna Rutherford Lullaby 16 January, 2017 GFT Lullaby follows on from Rutherford’s recent projects KIN and Broth, and looks at family, ageing and the children she never had. Featuring interviews with other middle-aged women who never reproduced alongside Rutherford’s own narration, this event will combine film and live performance to explore the personal and public […]
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CinemaAttic: Do You Remember , CCA, Friday 13 January, 2017
Fri 13 January 2017 7.30pm, £5 (£4 students) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 These Short Film fanatics are back with the finest independent films from Spain And Latin American countries. In January Cinemaattic get back with a night focused on the power of the Memory. Idols and individuals […]
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Friday, January 6, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Dance of Reality, GFT, 9 and 10 January, 2017
The Dance of Reality GFT 9 and 10, 2017 Alejandro Jodorowsky, the legendary director of El Topo and Santa Sangre, returned in 2013 with this, his first feature in almost a quarter of a century. With typical joyous idiosyncrasy, The Dance of Reality is an exercise in imagined autobiography (the first in a series which […]
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In Pursuit of Silence, GFT, Sunday 8 January, 2017
In Pursuit of Silence GFT Sunday 8 January, 2017 In society’s race towards modernity, amidst technological innovation and the rapid growth of cities, silence is now quickly passing into legend. From the Desert Fathers of the third century AD who became the model for Christian monasticism to John Cage’s seminal work 4’33”, which would go […]
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Futher Beyond GFT 9 – 10 January, 2017
Further Beyond GFT 9 – 10 January, 2017 By way of two intertwining stories of Irish immigration and displacement, a poetic journey is made into the idea of the cinematic location and the transformative power of travel. Directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy explore the extraordinary story of misfit and adventurer Ambrosio O’Higgins, expanding upon […]
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Hunt For The Wilderpeople GFT 10 January, 2017
GFT 10 January, 2017 6 p.m. Raised on hip-hop and in and out of foster homes, rebellious city kid Ricky (newcomer Julian Dennison) gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home he goes on the run with his gruff guardian, Hec (Sam […]
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The Dreamed Ones, GFT 6 and 7 January, 2017
The Dreamed Ones GFT 6 – 7 January, 2017 Concentration camp survivor and poet Paul Celan met fellow writer Ingeborg Bachmann in 1948, and the two began a long-distance correspondence that would last for 20 years despite the erstwhile couple meeting only once more throughout that time. Documentarian Ruth Beckermann investigates this relationship in an […]
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Krisha GFT 6 – 9 January, 2017
Krisha GFT 6 – 9 January, 2017 Winner of both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at the 2015 South-by-Southwest Film Festival, Trey Edward Shults’ directorial debut Krisha is the story of a woman’s return to the family she abandoned years before, set over the course of one turbulent Thanksgiving dinner. A palpable unease […]
Endless Poetry, GFT, 6 – 12 January, 2017
GFT 6 – 12 January, 2017 The second autobiographical film in legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s proposed cycle of cinematic memoirs (part one, The Dance of Reality, also screens this month), Endless Poetry recounts the artist’s young manhood in 1940s Chile. A young Jodoworosky finds himself drawn into the foremost bohemian artistic circles in Chile […]
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Brave The Grosvenor, 31 December, 2016 10.30 a.m.
The Grosvenor Ashton Lane G12 31 December, 2016 10.30 a.m. Pixar Animation Studios’ 13th Feature-Length Animated Film Features the Voices of Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane. With a courageous and impetuous heroine leading the way, Disney/Pixar sets out on yet another extraordinary journey-this time across […]
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Thursday, December 29, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: Uptight upright upside down The Manchurian Candidate, CCA, Thu 5 January 2017
Thu 5 January 2017 CCA 6.30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Uptight upright upside down Fri 11 November 2016 — Sun 8 January 2017 A screening of John Frankenheimer’s original Manchurian Candidate (1962), the famous ‘Hydrangea’ scene from which is referenced in Marvin […]
A Space Odyssey GFT 27 – 30 December, 2016
Stanley Kubrick’s sublime science fiction masterpiece, scripted by both Kubrick and famed writer Arthur C Clarke, is regularly cited not only as one of the greatest pieces of science fiction, but also as one of the finest works of cinema ever made. Charting the birth and evolution of mankind, as well as our interactions with […]
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The Ardennes 2 – 5 January, 2017 GFT
2 – 5 January, 2017 GFT Robin Pront’s eye-catching debut set in an atmospheric Antwerp follows the consequences of troublemaker Kenny’s release from prison. In Kenny’s absence, his brother Dave has remained on the straight and narrow. He has also begun a relationship with Kenny’s girlfriend Sylvie, who is now pregnant. Any family reunion is […]
Francofonia 29 and 30 December, 2016 GFT
29 and 30 December, 2016 GFT Francofonia combines newsreel footage, floating images from the skyline of Paris and dramatised fantasy sequences to create a portrait of the Louvre Museum that grows into a meditation on France’s devotion to the arts, and how the museum contains the heart and soul of the nation. There are encounters […]
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The Unknown Girl, GFT 29 and 30 December, 2016
29 and 30 December, 2016 GFT Doctor Jenny Davin refuses to open the door of her practice to a mysterious late-night caller. The next morning she learns that the caller was a girl who has now been found dead, and that the police have no way to identify her. Guilt-stricken, Jenny resolves to discover the […]
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Hell or High Water 27 – 30 December, 2016 GFT
27 – 30 December, 2016 GFT Hell or High Water merges a gripping family drama with an action packed Neo-Western. Two brothers, Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) face the foreclosure of their family’s farm and decide to team up for a string of adrenaline filled heists. They soon find themselves on the radar […]
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Sully, GFT, 27 – 30 December, 2016
On Thursday 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the Miracle on the Hudson when Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger glided his plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of […]
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Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Bad Santa, GFT, 23 December, 2016
Billy Bob Thornton has never been better: he stars as the world’s worst department store Santa – drunk on the job, verbally abusive to kids and trying to get laid while his dwarf assistant plans their next robbery. Directed by Ghost World helmer Terry Zwigoff, and with additional script duties by the Coen Brothers, […]
The Light Between Oceans, GFT 27 and 28 December, 2016
This heartrending love story, adapted from the bestselling novel by M.L. Stedman, is the ultimate winter holiday weepie. The story begins as a slow-burn romance between WWI-veteran lighthouse keeper Tom (Fassbender) and local landowner’s daughter Isabel (Vikander). The one thing missing from their idyllic life is a baby, but this is the one thing that […]
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Calamity Jane, Sing Along, GFT, 11 – 29 December, 2016
GFT 11 – 29 December 2016 Join us for a sing-a-long version of this Oscar- winning classic, starring Doris Day as the titular gun-toting, whip-cracking Wild West whirlwind. Experience the much-loved tale of Calamity Jane afresh, as she rolls in on the Deadwood Stage to feud, fight and fall head over heels for Howard Keel’s […]
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Elf, GFT 19 – 23 December, 2016
19 – 23 December, 2016 GFT The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a regular-sized man who was raised as an elf in the North Pole by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). When the news is finally broken to Buddy that he’s not a […]
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