Category: General chat and trailers

Got all my tickets booked, got my FrightFest pass, all set!

Got my tickets to the Opening and Closing Galas! Doing ma happy dance

The day of the GFF20 Opening Gala, my friend messaged me to say, “Just want to give totally fair warning, I got back from v northern Italy yesterday . . . I am still up for coming tonight but would genuinely totally understand if you’d rather I didn’t”. “Ha!” I replied, “obvs join us”. Back…

And I have been up since 4am and have got all my movies picked!

Welcome back after the New Year break! And we are hitting the ground rolling with the new reveals of what is up for grabs at this year’s GFF. Today the FrightFest lineup was announced – see details here: https://cloutcom.co.uk/frightfest-glasgow-2022/ Excited for The Execution, based on the hunt for Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. 14-year-old me…

Ooft! I’m knackered. It was a busy old year for films. I finished the French Film Festival in classic style of being ill at the last minute. Think I’ll put a cork in it til the New Year, when the GFF programme will be announced. Gonna sleep til then!

Well, in classic style, I got sick on the last day of the film festival and couldn’t watch all the stuff I was planning to catch up on last minute. Still, despite what seems to be becoming an end-of-festival tradition, I think I got a lot watched, and it was all really interesting. From more…

Ooh, the GFF is defo gonna continue to have an online component this year. Pretty pleased about that, coz it’ll give a bit of flexibility. Plus, it’ll mean folk not in Glasgow can tune into some of the great films. I think the online thing went far better for them last year than they expected,…

With Sin La Habana, the UK Jewish Film Festival is over. Such good films! Really consistently high quality. The documentaries were fascinating, and really covered a broad spectrum of perspectives. One thing I’m definitely gonna do now is watch Yentl. In the wee UK JFF trailer that plays before each film, it had folk reacting…

The Havana Glasgow Film Festival is over. That’s the first time I’ve really binged their movies, and I totally missed a couple I was gonna watch online. But it’s 3am, and I’ve got to get up for work in 5 hours, so I’m calling it a win. It’s really interesting to see a diversity of…