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
Her Way – Glasgow Film Festival review by Pat Byrne
UK Premiere – 5 – 8 March, 2022 GFT and At Home 6 – 9 March, 2022 Laure Calamy (Call My Agent) plays the demanding role of Marie, a militant sex worker, fighting for her rights, and a mother desperate to find the fees to pay for her teenage son, Adrien (Nissim Renard), to attend […]
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Sunday, March 6, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog
‘Ashgrove’ World Premier GFF2022 review by Pat Byrne
Ashgrove – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Ashgrove is very much a film of our time about the world threatened by a pandemic when the water supply is affected. People are dying of toxicity caused by consuming too much water so everyone has to carefully monitor the amount they drink each day. | It’s a plot […]
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Thursday, March 3, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – Kicks Off Today 2 March
It’s been a long time coming but Glasgow Film Festival is back, and it’s good to be back home at GFT! Tonight Glasgow Film Festival 2022 launches, and it does so with a bang. Starting off a 12-day film feast featuring just over 90 different Premieres and over 50 guests is the UK Premiere of […]
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Outfit review by Pat Byrne
The Outfit was the film chosen for the Opening Gala at Glasgow Film Festival 2022 The UK Premiere, from Graham Moore, academy award winning writer of The Imitation Game, and starring academy award winning actor Mark Rylance (Leonard), is a stylish gangster movie set in Leonard’s tailor shop in Chicago in the 50’s. Leonard is […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – Festival for Free
Making the cinematic experience more accessible for all, Glasgow Film Festival 2022 features several free or budget-friendly screenings including 1962 Retrospective. What better way to start your day than with a free screening of a stone cold classic like Lawrence of Arabia or Dr.No preceded by an introduction from GFF Festival Co-Director Allan Hunter? Glasgow […]
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Friday, February 18, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Once Upon A Time in Uganda – Glasgow Film Festival 2022
5 and 6 March, 2022 UK Premiere For years maverick Ugandan filmmaker Isaac Nabwana, has been creating over-the-top, low budget action films from his home in Wakaliga, affectionately known as Wakaliwood. Mesmerised by Isaac’s work, film-lover Alan Hofmanis moves to Uganda and quickly becomes his right-hand man, as well as a Ugandan film star in his own […]
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Thursday, February 17, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Her Way Glasgow Film Festival 2022
5 and 6 March, 2022 UK Premiere Call My Agent star Laure Calamy shines in this compelling first feature from director Cécile Ducrocq. Marie (Calamy) is a confident, optimistic sex worker in Strasbourg who is determined to provide a better life for her 17-year-old son, Adrien (Nissim Renard). He is a bottomless pit of apathy and negativity whose only […]
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Wild Men – Glasgow Film Festival 2022
(Image: Rasmus Weng Karis) 11 – 12 March, 2022 UK Premiere If the Coen brothers made a film in Danish it might look a little like Wild Men. Thomas Daneskov’s immensely entertaining crime story/mid-life crisis caper is marbled with comic moments and set amidst some spectacular scenery. Martin (Rasmus Bjerg) has fled his family and the modern world to […]
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In Conversation with Armando Iannucci GFF2022
6 March, 2022 at 5.45 p.m. At Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Glasgow Film Festival Glasgow-born Armando Iannucci has been the inspirational creative force behind some of our favourite things, from The Day Today to The Thick Of It and The Death Of Stalin, to The Personal History Of David Copperfield. Iannucci’s […]
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a-ha the movie at Glasgow Film Festival 2022
UK Premiere – 4 and 5 March, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB a-ha were the first Norwegian stars to break through into international fame. Their iconic synth-pop single ‘Take on Me’ catapulted them onto the world stage and garnered them adoring fans across the globe. With new band interviews and unreleased behind […]
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Big screen talent attending GFF2022
Many famous folk expected in town for this years film festival Walking the red carpet between 2 – 13 March will be: Alan Cumming, Jack Lowden, Martin Compston, Lulu, Armando Iannucci, Sienna Guillory and Anders Danielsen Lie. Directors attending Premieres Directors including Ruth Paxton, Iciar Bollain, Thomas Robsahm and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic will attend their […]
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022
Galas and Premiers Glasgow Film Festival 2022
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – 2 – 13 March GFF22 will open with the UK premiere of The Outfit a gripping and masterful thriller starring Academy Award winner Mark Rylance. The closing Gala – UK premiere of the Camera d’Or-winning Murina, a tense family drama directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese. […]
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – Tickets On Sale
GFF2022 2 – 13 March The time has finally come – Friday 4 February tickets for Glasgow Film Festival 2022 have gone on sale! As announced last week, from 2 – 13 March, GFF are bringing you 10 World premieres, 4 European premieres, 65 UK premieres, and 13 Scottish premieres, and they’re over the moon that […]
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Saturday, February 5, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival Announces 2022 Programme
2 – 13 March, 2022 GFF 2022 will host 10 World premieres, 4 European premieres, 65 UK premieres, and 13 Scottish premieres. Opening and Closing Films The 18th edition of the annual festival will open with the UK premiere of The Outfit, a gripping and masterful thriller starring Academy Award winner Mark Rylance. The festival […]
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – More Events Announced
More events for the 18th annual festival running 2 – 13 March, 2022 African Stories celebrates fresh new cinematic voices from across the continent Norway’s first female film director Edith Carlmar is celebrated in a major retrospective screening some of her features on 35mm For the first time ever GFF’s premiere galas will screen simultaneously […]
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Thursday, December 16, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 – First Screenings Announced
Glasgow Film Festival: 2 – 13 March 2022 First screenings announced for hybrid edition of Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Winds of Change: Cinema in ‘62 offers free screenings of the standout films from the year 1962, including To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. No, Lawrence of Arabia and The Manchurian Candidate. Glasgow Film Festival returns to […]
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Friday, November 26, 2021 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2022
