Chloe Walker

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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…

Surge – Glasgow Film Festival Review

Joseph (Ben Whishaw) mans the metal detectors at Stanstead Airport. He doesn’t have any friends,…

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,…

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…

Jumbo – Glasgow Film Festival Review

In Jumbo, a young woman named Jeanne (Noémi Merlant) falls in love with a fairground…

Riders of Justice – Glasgow Film Festival Review

When his wife is killed in a train accident, deployed soldier Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) returns…

Shorta – Glasgow Film Festival Review

Young Arabic immigrant Talib Ben Hassi (Jack Pedersen) lies in critical condition in the hospital…

The Mauritanian – Glasgow Film Festival Review

Mohamedou Ould Salahi (Tahar Rahim) was imprisoned and tortured at Guantanamo Bay for years, under…

Spring Tide – Glasgow Film Festival Review

“You two are incompatible”, says nine year-old Wanting (Junxi Qu), about her mother Jianbo (Hao…

Book Review: Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro

She just looked at her phone for a moment, and he was gone. Daniel’s mother…

MLK/FBI DVD Review

For almost as long as Martin Luther King Jr. was in the public eye, FBI…

Glasgow Film Festival 2021 preview: 5 films to watch at this year’s virtual event

Virtual film festival time again – it’s Glasgow’s turn to light up our computer screens.…