I Blame Society Review

Gillian (Gillian Wallace Horvat) is a down-on-her-luck filmmaker, struggling to get her next project off the ground. She decides to make a low budget documentar... Read More...

Chaos Walking Review

It’s the near future. Todd (Tom Holland) lives on a world inhabited solely by men, who can all hear each other’s thoughts. One day, Viola (Daisy Ridley) crash l... Read More...

Book Review: Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguro

Common Ground follows Stan and Charlie, who we meet as teenagers living in the suburban town of Newford. Stan is shy, lonely and relentlessly bullied by a group... Read More...

Book Review: In The Garden – Essays on Nature and Growing

It’s always a jolt to find the words ‘lockdown’ or ‘pandemic’ in a recently released book – how strange that this bizarre reality of ours has now lasted long en... Read More...

The Columnist Review

Femke (Katja Herbers), a columnist for her local newspaper, is no stranger to death threats. It’s all part of the job, especially in the age of Twitter. Yet whe... Read More...

Glasgow Film Festival 2021: the best of the rest of the fest

So many movies, so little time to write about them all. Here’s a brief round-up of some of the other highlights of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. MurmurH... Read More...

Surge – Glasgow Film Festival Review

Joseph (Ben Whishaw) mans the metal detectors at Stanstead Airport. He doesn’t have any friends, he doesn’t get on with his parents, he lives alone in a world h... Read More...

Book Review: Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi

Twenty year-old Korean-American Jayne is just about holding it together. She lives in a tiny, grotty illegal sublet in Brooklyn, with a man who’s only paid rent... Read More...

Book Review: Land Of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

The ten stories in Te-Ping Chen’s collection, Land Of Big Numbers, are all about modern life in China. In Lulu, a brother charts the online anti-government acti... Read More...

Jumbo – Glasgow Film Festival Review

In Jumbo, a young woman named Jeanne (Noémi Merlant) falls in love with a fairground ride. And by love, I mean literal, romantic love. Sounds ridiculous, right?... Read More...

Riders of Justice – Glasgow Film Festival Review

When his wife is killed in a train accident, deployed soldier Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) returns home to be with his distraught teenage daughter Mathilde (Andrea H... Read More...

Shorta – Glasgow Film Festival Review

Young Arabic immigrant Talib Ben Hassi (Jack Pedersen) lies in critical condition in the hospital after a violent encounter with the Copenhagen police. His comm... Read More...