An incredibly intimate and personal documentary about one man telling his family he was gang-raped at 17 in a homophobic attack. The story is of such huge issues, yet it has such a small, domestic setting. You really feel you are taken into his family home. You hear their squabbles, their irritations, their personality clashes,…
This film is a real accomplishment. It takes contemporary footage of Stalin’s funeral and cuts it together with foley. It makes you feel like you’re watching it on 24-hour news, not as historical archive footage. That’s the good news. The bad news is it’s like watching 2 and quarter hours of a state funeral on…
Continuing with seeing movies that have been out for a while, I’d also never seen Logan’s Run, so I went to see it as part of the free film Retrospective strand. It was actually quite good. Lots of action in the first half, kinda loses momentum towards the end. Why does no one ever mention…
Realise I’m late to the party on this one, but Train to Busan is fucking ace! I’d never seen it before, so thought it’s be nice to see it as part of the GFF Special Events. First I got chased around by zombies in the basement of the Arches. Then we watched the movie with…
A trio of shitkicker, garage band, fuckwits spend the night getting drunk, high, shooting fireworks off from their arse and generally partying like a shower of fannies. This leads to one of them, the titular Dick Long, getting dropped off at the hospital while the others scurry their high asses home. The whole movie more…
Pictures From Afghanistan is a film memoir of Glaswegian BBC photojournalist David Pratt of his time reporting on Afghanistan from the 1980s to present day. I like the way this was filmed, really grounding Afghanistan as a place, not a news item. It’s strange to see a guy get in a taxi outside O’Neills pub…
Thought I’d start the day with a bit of fluff with Love Sarah. My biggest concern going in was that it would be too saccharin. It was awful. Just awful. Was ready for walking out a few minutes in. Picked it because it had a good cast with Celia Imrie and Bill Paterson, but the…