Category: General chat and trailers

Loot drop at the Havan Glasgow Film Festival

That’s the in-person screenings for the French Film Festival over, but they will return in a few weeks with an online selection, so keep your eyes peeled!

Man, Africa In Motion was ace again this year. Think next year I’m gonna take the fortnight off work like I do for the GFF, because there were so many other films I planned on seeing that I just couldn’t fit in.

This blog celebrates the wide range of excellent films shown at the Glasgow Film Festival, as well as other film festivals shown in Glasgow. Some reviews are long, some reviews are short. All are intended to give you an idea of what you might like to see, and take a chance on something a little…

Ok, so when I first started this blog, I envisioned covering the GFF and only occasionally posting the odd interesting film review in between times. But certain events have changed things. Can you guess what event I mean? So Covid has already changed how I interact with cinema. The pandemic is still not over, but…

The GFT is scheduled to reopen on 24th May! After a year shut, I’m ready to take a thermos and sleeping bag and live there.

The Glasgow Film Festival will return in 2022 from March 2nd-13th. That’s the dates plugged into the diary already.

A mere 4 days after it officially concluded. Well, that was some year. 63 features and 4 shorts, that’s a record total for me. And as a proportion of all the films shown at the festival, it’s probably the highest I will ever get at 91%. I mostly stuck to my schedule, but I was…

The winner of this year’s Audience Award was Sweetheart! Yeay! Nice to see queer female filmmakers and stories getting recognition.

For the first time ever, I’ve watched all the Audience Award movies! My pick would be Jumbo, but I’ll be happy if any of them win so long as it’s not Shorta or Redemption of a Rogue.